Why can't I get into my facebook photos?

Is there any way you can get photos off facebook and get proper quality photos?

• I need some photos off facebook for a photo album. I don't want them on just normal paper, and I haven't got any shiny proper photo printing paper. Is there anyway I can take the photos into "Boots" or somewhere like that to get my photos printed off properly?

• Answer:

  Nope. You can get photos printed, but you'll need to contact someone with the original files and get them to send those to you. Once it gets posted to the internet the resolution is no longer suitable for printing photos (you can sometimes get away with it for drawings or other simple graphics). To have good- or even Ok- quality you have to have a file at a resolution of at least 150ppi, 300 is better, really nice photo quality is 600-1200ppi. Images online are almost never over 72ppi, even if an image is submitted to a site at a higher resolution it will be re-sized- even if a site has the ability to display at a higher resolution (which most do not) there is no reason to display at over 72 as the image quality isn't all that much better to the person looking at the screen. Taking a low quality image and changing the resolution will not make it clear, it will just make it have more pixels. It's pretty much the same thing as taking a tiny thumbnail image and setting it as your desktop background, the information to make it clear at a large size (or higher resolution) doesn't exist any more in that file so you can't ever get it to look the way it did in the beginning. There isn't any program in the world that can take a low resolution image and make it suitable for printing as a photo, so no matter where you take it you won't be able to get what you want.