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Please note: there is an updated version of this article available here: Facebook image size cheat sheet. Smart marketers have known the way to a fan’s heart is through their eyes for some time, but significant changes to Facebook’s News Feed underscored the importance of visuals even further. Facebook wants stories shared through their platform to be more vibrant, colorful, and ultimately more engaging. It seems they’re just following users’ lead; last year the social network shared their own research, which showed that posts including a photo album, picture, or video generate about 180 percent, 120 percent, and 100 percent more engagement, respectively. Use this guide to help you improve the quality of images you upload and display on Facebook, by using the right dimensions, resolution, and features for the job. Facebook Cover Photo We’ll start with cover photos, the large banner image at the top of your company page. The minimum size accepted is 720 … [Read more...] about Facebook Photo Sizes Cheat Sheet for Marketers: Apps, Ads, Albums & More

Our previously published guide to Facebook image sizes is well over two years-old and therefore long overdue for an update, and SO much has happened to the world’s most popular social network (for now) since then… However, as Larry Kim taught us this week in his post on how to improve organic Facebook reach, it is still possible to find your audience without having to break the bank. This guide is designed to ensure that when Facebook users do see and interact with your brand, that you’re all scrubbed up and as presentable as you possibly can be. These are the correct dimensions, resolutions and features you need for optimising your Facebook channel, without the need of an overzealous parent spitting in a handkerchief and scrubbing your face till it’s red. In order to do this as accurately and up-to-date as possible (seeing as Facebook only just recently changed the layout of branded pages again) I’ll be using examples from the FB Pages Sizes and … [Read more...] about Facebook image cheat sheet: maximum photo sizes for your branded page and ads

Users will have access to a selection of Snapseed’s photo-enhancement options within the Google+ app, including basic editing functions and the ability to choose filters like Drama and Retrolux. Saturation, contrast, brightness and other photo effects can be adjusted as well, along with a single tap feature that lets users compare an edited image with the original. The new version of the Google+ app for Android will include more text up front on posts and prominently displayed 1+, reshare and comment buttons. Image previews will not be cropped, and users can swipe photo albums inline. Tapping a video, photo or link attachment will take a user directly to a watch page, lightbox or website. Profile and community features are also getting updates with the option to list a current location on your Google+ profile. Once this option is enabled, users can determine who gets to see their location status by giving permission to contacts in their Google+ network. Upgrades to the Google+ … [Read more...] about New Google+ App For Android & iPhone Delivers More Photo Editing & Content Sharing Options

You may know that Twitter recently moved. The growing company has new digs at Market Square, a decidedly not-very-modern-looking property that was completed in 1937. (It’s classic California Art Deco, as you’ll see below.) But make no mistake, the interior of Twitter’s space is decidedly hip, technically capable and seems to fit the company like a glove — at least the portions that several Marketing Land/Search Engine Land editors were allowed to see during a visit last week. We thought we’d share a few of the photos that we took and, at the end, we’ll include a slideshow of photos from Twitter itself. Twitter HQ: 1355 Market Street Twitter’s new offices are located at 1355 Market Street, very close to the Civic Center Plaza and the city’s theater district. Here’s a shot of the main entry exterior: The building was originally the Western Furniture Exchange and Merchandise Mart, and that’s still the name on the exterior wall … [Read more...] about A Look Inside Twitters New San Francisco Headquarters [PHOTOS]

From USA Today: Yahoo has said that it kept both services going after the acquisition because they appealed to different audiences. But Thursday, it said in a statement that Yahoo Photos was closing because of the changing nature of the Internet. Digital photography has evolved "into a social activity that allows people to communicate and connect," Yahoo said. "We have decided to shift our focus accordingly." Wow. Pretty big gamble. I know plenty of people who upload photos not to be social in the Flickr sense but instead because it’s a convenient way to share them with a small number of friends and family. They are social as much as it is social to shove prints in an envelope and send them to someone you know. USA Today has stats showing that Yahoo Photos has slipped according toHitwise in terms of share of the usage of photo sites.Photobucket (recentlyprofiled in Fortune as "the biggest web site you’ve never heard of" has a 25percent share in April 2006, followed by … [Read more...] about Goodbye Yahoo Photos; Yahoo Loves Flickr More