How to Create a Photo Album on Facebook

Creating photo albums on Facebook is a great way to share your moments with friends in a fun and logical way. It only takes a few minutes to create a Facebook photo album, and you can return to editing your photos at any time. If you want to start sharing your memories with your friends, just follow the steps below.

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Visit the Facebook home page. Go to www.facebook.com if you haven’t already opened it. To log in, enter your email address and password.

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Select “Add Photos/Video”. The option is at the top of your News Feed status bar. ^{[1] X Research Source}

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Select “Create Photo Album”. Options are on the right side of the screen. A dialog box will open for you to browse the hard drive on your computer.

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Select photo. Browse your hard drive for photos. You can also use iPhoto (if available) to find photos here. After you’ve selected your photos, a new screen will appear for you to start building your album. You can select individual images or multiple images at once:

If you want to select an image, click on the image and press “Open”,
To select multiple photos in a row, just click on the first photo, hold down the Shift key, and then click on the photo you want to select. If you click on two pictures that are far apart, all the images in between are automatically selected. Click “Open” after making your selections.

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Fill in some information about the album. While you wait for the photo to upload, you can fill in some basic information to help your friends understand more about your album. Use the options at the top of the screen to provide information such as:

Title of the album.
Description for the entire album. If you want to leave an intro or famous quote for the album, just type in the box “Say something…” (Say something…)
Location of the photograph. You can add as many locations as you want.
Album date.
Remember that you can go back and add photos any time you like. To proceed, simply click “+ Add more photos” at the bottom left of the screen and choose to add photos in the same way you did before.

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Choose whether you want the photo to display in high quality. If you want, just click the “High Quality” box at the bottom of the screen. Albums will take longer to upload, but photos will show up in high quality.

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Fill in some information about each photo. If you like, you can go to each photo (or several photos) in the album to provide more information by:

Tag people in photos. Just click someone’s face on a photo and enter a name to tag them.
Write a description for the photo. You can edit in the blank box below the photo.
Add the date the photo was taken. Just click on the little clock in the lower left corner of the photo to fill in this information.
Where was the photo taken? Click on the inverted teardrop icon in the lower right and add the location where the photo was taken. You can also enter a place name in the “Where was this taken?” line. (Where was this photo taken?) below the description.

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Choose the order for the photos. You can leave it as is, or customize the order of photos after the album is uploaded. To move the image, simply click and drag each drop to where you want it. You can also click the “Order by date” option at the top right of the screen to sort the photos chronologically based on the date and time they were taken.

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Choose a cover photo for the album. By default, the first photo in the album will be the cover photo. If you want to change this, simply click the arrow in the upper right of the photo and select “Make Album Cover”.

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Select the privacy settings you want. Click “Friends” or the current setting at the bottom, go through the options and choose the mode you want. We have the following options:

Public (Public)
Friends (Friends)
Custom – this option allows you to choose other modes like “Friends of Friends” or show albums only to people in the list.

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Click “Post Photos”. Your photo will be posted to Facebook. You can return to the album to add, remove or edit images at any time.

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