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How do you add graphics, art or photos to a Facebook post?

December 27, 2014 / Dave Taylor / Facebook Help / 7 Comments

For the life of me, HOW DO YOU ADD GRAPHICS OR ART TO POSTS YOU WRITE ON FACEBOOK! I mean I see people add Snoopy pics, birthday clip art, a bouquet of flowers, and now they’re even adding background pics to put your photos in, etc. I know how to change my thumbnail, and my cover picture, and I know how to copy & paste, just not this issue. I have Googled, Facebooked, and Yahooed myself to total aggravation!! HELP ME DAVE, please!

Sounds like you’ve definitely done your homework, and then some, but I think you’re going to be surprised at just how easy it is to add images, photos, graphics, figures or illustrations to a Facebook status update at the end of the day. The key thing to realize is that there are two steps involved in the process: finding and saving the image you seek on your computer, then including that image on the Facebook posting itself.

For the former, it’s advisable to use your own images or photos because then you don’t have any issues with copyright or intellectual property ownership, but that doesn’t always work out. No worries, I’m a big fan of Google Image Search, where you can type in a description of the type of image you want — like “snoopy happy dance” — and save your favorite of the results it shows, for later use on Facebook. That doesn’t indemnify you from copyright issues, but if you’re just posting to Facebook, it’s probably not that big a deal.

Once you have an image or photograph, then jump over to Facebook on your computer (Mac or PC, it’s the same basic process). Type in the textual part of your post, like this:

facebook status update without photo or image attached

See the little camera icon along the bottom? Click on it to add a photo or image.

Your Web browser will pop up a file selection dialog window:

pick an image photo illustration picture to add to a facebook post status update

You can see I’m picking “cute-kitty.jpg”. I mean, everyone likes pictures of cute kittens, right?

Chose the image you want, click “Open” and it’ll upload to Facebook, during which time you’ll see a progress indicator:

photo image being uploaded facebook fb

Once it’s done uploading (which can take a while if you have a really big source image) the image shows up as a thumbnail.

Notice you can have more than one image associated with a post too if you’d rather select two or more…

facebook status update ready to post with photo photograph

At this point you can add additional images by clicking on the big empty square with the “+” or clicking again on the camera icon.

The other icons along the bottom let you, left to right, tag people who are in the image or associated with the status update, tag the location of the image or your post, add an image, and add emoticons, stickers and other related imagery. The “Public” button can also be clicked and adjusted if you’d rather a post be only visible to your friends or even a subset of Facebook friends.

I’ll just post this image, so click on “Post”.

cute kitty picture included in facebook status update post

That’s all there is to it. And if you want a handy shortcut, turns out you can actually drag photos and other images directly onto the status update area of your Web browser when you’re writing the update. Even easier!

Hope that helps you add birthday clip art, bouquets of flowers and dancing Snoopy to your own Facebook posts!

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7 comments on “How do you add graphics, art or photos to a Facebook post?”

  1. Tom says:
    November 28, 2017 at 8:46 pm

    This DID NOT work for Facebook (no camera icon). I would post a screen capture of it, but I CAN’T DO THAT EITHER!

    Reply
  2. Sarahcoop104@gmail.com says:
    June 12, 2016 at 10:47 am

    How to do with cell phone post?

    Reply
  3. Linda says:
    May 18, 2016 at 6:37 am

    Wow! This process sounds terribly complicated! All I want to do is add a photo from my tablet’s photo gallery to my Facebook post.

    Reply
  4. iNGE says:
    June 14, 2015 at 9:35 am

    How do i choose a photo from icloud photos? I am trying to post a picture to a Facebook For Sale post. thank you

    Reply
  5. Gary Jones says:
    June 5, 2015 at 6:26 am

    My question is how you choose an image when you post a link? My site has a forum and I will often post a link on Facebook, but the image part of the post is simply blank. In some cases when you post a link it will show an image from that site but I don’t know where Facebook gets this from.

    Appreciate your help.

    Reply
    • Dave Taylor says:
      June 5, 2015 at 10:37 am

      Gary, Facebook wants you to use OpenGraph on your site so that the featured image is identified on the page already. Given that you only see blank images and no option to pick another one, it sounds like the code might already be on the page, just misconfigured. I’d crack open the source to a page you’re linking to and see if there are entries like “meta property=og:image”.

      Reply
  6. jackie2830 says:
    December 28, 2014 at 1:11 am

    THANKS DAVE!!!!! You’re right, so easy. And I’ve been adding photos for years. However I thought that camera icon was ONLY for adding photos…..not clip art……DUH! Thanks again, I’m up and running now and it took like 30 seconds. Thanks also for the quicker Google Images suggestion as well. BTW, love your wee kitty……now I’m on QT overload!

    Reply

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