Best Facebook Photo Tools

Facebook allows for third parties to write applications that will work on Facebook. Many of the best applications are related to photo management and editing - creating timelines; uploading and downloading images, editing photos. There are many applications in Facebook that lets you enhance, add effects, edit and possibly do anything with your photos. These apps gives your otherwise boring Facebook photos the boost they need to make them exciting and enticing for your friends to look at. Some of the best applications are listed on this site.

Facebook Photo Size Tips

Cover Photo (851 x 315) The best size for this item. Take a bigger and heavier image and Facebook will turn all your ideas upside down. The smallest possible size is 720 pixels wide. But the image quality will be not the best one. To fix the problem, you can try to resize the pic. Sure, you donât want to boast a blurry picture on your page! And if you select a larger photo, youâll be able to move and crop it.

Timeline Photos (403 x 403) Itâs ok if you choose a bigger photo, but Facebook will automatically center the picture. So, if the objects in the image are not centered, they wonât be in focus and the whole impression will be spoiled. To solve the problem, click on the Pencil icon after you publish your picture, select the Reposition Photo and amend the positioning.

Profile Picture (180 x 180) â The official dimensions of your profile picture are 160 x 160 pixels. But remember that Facebook adds a thin white frame that cannot be removed. So, itâs better to take a slightly bigger pic to get a much better result.

It's the free, all-in-one way to make collages, photos, and more. Instantly share to Facebook or just save it for later.

PhotoMania offers several groups of photo effects: sketches, paintings, cartoons, fun, modifications and a few more. Each group contains dozens of effects - over 250 effects in all! You can use your own Facebook photos, upload images from your computer or add effects to copies of your friends' photos and the photos tagged with your name.

While I like Photomania, there are two issues to watch out for. The app page is full of ads and unless you use an ad-blocker you may find yourself clicking on an ad instead of a photo-effect option. Also, when you install the application into Facebook, the photo editor asks for permission to post on your behalf on Facebook, though you can quickly reject that option and still use PhotoMania. (In fairness, I am seeing more and more Facebook photo editors do this so this is more a comment across the board - than specific to Photomania!)

Timelinecoverbanner.com provides you with the power to create a more creative and customized timeline banner to impress all of your friends. They support the timeline editor with tons of graphic clipart and backgrounds from partner sites. Some of the key features are: No visible watermark on final image, very fast and responsive, you can blend profile picture seamlessly with timeline cover background, you draw or add text, you can add tons of graphic or emoticon from and more.

Photo Books, Calendars and Mosaics

With hundreds of millions of photos and videos being shared every day it's easy to miss out on the ones that actually matter to you. Pixable finds the best photos and videos shared on Facebook and Twitter so you never miss an important moment. Pixable has its roots in Facebook and the integration is much deeper there, Twitter integration started only in August 2011.

While Pixable started off with applications about printing Facebook photos it has now evolved into creating a personalized browsing experience by aggregating photos from different social networks and then sorting them into feeds like "Best Photos of the Day" in order of their relevance to you, Pixable also provides a notification service allowing you to follow friends' photo activity and be notified of newly tagged or uploaded photos.

Pixable has applications for the Web, for the iPhone and for the iPad - check out the one on your platform of choice to see ways to enjoy and manage all the photos thrown your way via social media.

I love their description, "Think of us as your personal photo and video concierge"which is exactly how I use Pixable.

Download Entire Facebook Photo Albums

One of the best features of Facebook are the photos albums, which allows you and all of your friends to upload an unlimited number of pictures to share with your personal networks. While it's great having all of these pictures online, you aren't guaranteed that they will always be available. With a great application called PhotoGrabber you can download all of the Facebook tagged photo albums that you have access to. Using the PhotoGrabber application for Facebook is great for keeping a personal copy of photos from Facebook and is an excellent way to protect them for the future.

Now that Timeline is becoming mandatory, Facebook users want to pick cute and clever cover photos. For the uninspired, a new Android app helps you choose cover photos that are sure to pick up some "likes." Facebook Timeline Covers: D33P lets you input photos from your albums, your newsfeed, or its own gallery of cover art. You can also take a photo right in the app, while previewing how it will look on your profile. Users can also pick from D33P's quirky cover art, including zombies or dinosaurs that inspire a frightened profile pic. The photos get branded with the Android logo and "D33PAPP.COM," but a paid version with no watermark, no ads, and more filters is on the way.

The best way to print and share pictures with people you love. From your iPhone. In a snap. Choose pictures from Facebook, Instagram and your iPhone, crop them, select recipients and that's it: your loved ones will receive lovely real pictures in their mailbox.

Print Facebook Albums to Life

What would you say if you could have all the faces that you see on your Facebook wall turned into wallpaper to decorate your room with? The Social Print Studio can produce (and ship internationally) large 20" x 40" prints made by quality photo paper for $25. And a digital version of these prints can also be purchased for $10.

• Winkiwoo slurps photos, status and comments from Facebook pages and turns them into a range of Photo Books and Status Books with hard and soft covers.
  • Create a photo book with your Facebook photos and your friend's photos with WinkiWoo app
  • Create photo books and status books in one app
  • Facebook application that turns digital material into books
  • 20 page 20x15cm photo book
  • Can hold 20 - 400 photos from personal or friends' profiles
  • Soft, lightweight cover, options for a hard cover
  • Paper color options
  • Worldwide shipping: USD - $4.99; AUD - $4.99; Euro - €3.99; Pound - £3.99
  • Create photo book without leaving Facebook

Mypictr provides a free picture resizing service, which allows you to create a custom profile avatar for your favorite social network. You don't need to install any programs, plug-ins or any other software, just upload your picture, resize it online and download it from our server. Imagine the following situation, you are about to create a new profile at a new social network and the size of profile picture is limited to a custom width and height. You would probably search for a software which will allow you to adjust your picture to the right size. With mypictr you don't need to search for the software, all you need to do is to upload your large picture, pick a right size (or custom size) and download a smaller profile picture.

Photo Voting from Quibblo.com, automatically grabs photos from your Facebook album, and creates a poll so users can vote on their favorite. Use this application to pick the photo you should use as your profile pic, or just to see what photos your friends think are best!