Can't upload pictures to facebook using a Nikon D5100?
Alright so i recently bought a Nikon D5100 for a Photography class i'm taking this year and so i took a few pictures, took out my SD card, plugged it into my computer, Edited the pic to JUST give it a Watermark. Thats it, just a watermark. Then when i try to add it onto facebook, i get "Bad Image" pop up. Can anyone help with this?
Added (1). Do i need to adjust settings on my camera?
Facebook does not do well with high resolution images.
Either use a post-processing software to reduce the image size and resolution, or set your camera to Basic/Small JPG for the images you want to upload to facebook. That will reduce the file sizes to something facebook can handle.
Also make sure you are not using RAW images as facebook can't handle those.
It seems a shame to use a great camera like a D5100 to record low-resolution images!
Make sure it is set to JPEG fine and not RAW images and then use software like The Gimp (free) or Adobe Photoshop Elements (very good but not free!) to downscale the images. That way you still have a good high-resolution image for when you want to crop or print it, but you can still put the pictures on facebook.
Alternatively you could use flickr online to store your high-res pictures and automatically post those to facebook.
Try making the picture size smaller first (1024p at the longest side) for faster loading. It will be large enough in Facebook so don't worry about it.
If that does not work, make sure you are uploading a compatible image format. The most popular is JPG or JPEG. Do not upload RAW (or whatever RAW format Nikon uses). Make it JPG first, resize then upload.
You need to learn about file types and sizes. You want to save your image as a.jpg file, and make sure the total file size is just a few megs.
What I'm suggesting does NOT involve changing the settings on the camera, but changing the properties and size of the image file after the image is on your computer. I tend to go down to about 70ppi and about 850-900 pixels wide. Those numbers are more to do with the way they look on facebook than anything else.
But something is telling me you don't have a clue what's going on with anything you got going on there. Set the camera down, and pick up a book and google. LEARN about what you are doing, because right now you are just wasting all the money you purchased the camera with.
No you can't