Facebook users everywhere will soon be able to upload photos in higher resolution, tag their friends with greater efficiency and browse through their friends’ albums with more grace, thanks to a new set of features that will begin rolling out this month.
The social networking site’s new photo features will allow users to upload photos in a 2048-pixel resolution, instead of the traditional 720-pixel resolution. “It’s enough pixels to print out a 5×7 print at 300 DPI,” says Facebook Photos product manager Sam Odio. In addition, Facebook members will no longer have to load a separate Web page to view each photo in a friend’s album, thanks to a streamlined viewing function that automatically displays images, comments and tags directly on top of an already opened page. “It’s essentially going to happen very quickly, right when you click on the thumbnail,” Odio says. “If you click on a photo and an album from a news feed, you can still page through the entire album.”
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