How To Make Facebook Profile Pictures Bigger
41 Comments By Tal Siach on August 22nd, 2008 in Web 2.0
When browsing through Facebook profile pictures, the images are usually too small. Would you like to know an easy Facebook trick how to make them bigger, so you can finally recognize an old friend or acquaintance through their limited sized profile picture?
Kind of like Murphy’s Law, after hours of searching for different old friends on Facebook and finally finding some kind of match, you cannot tell if it is really them; all thanks to the tiny profile pictures they selected to post, or a group photo that doesn’t help your search. Now you hesitate whether it is the right person, and you don’t want to just add or send a message to some stranger. It would be great if you could at least enlarge that one single image, so you could make a wiser Facebook friend adding judgment.
Following is the simple Facebook tip for all those small profile pictures and a way to make them a little larger. In case you didn’t know, this really cool and easy trick can enlarge the Facebook profile photos 200%, which could help you arrive at a wiser decision about this potential friend, wouldn’t it?
All that needs to be done is to copy the profile photo image location into a new tab or window in your browser. Once you look at the url you will notice there is the “S†character in the name of the picture, for example: “……/S23939.jpgâ€. Just change change the letter “s†to the letter “n†and you are good to go.
Besides just looking for friends, next time you browse through Facebook, you can make a better judgment if that certain girl is hot, or for you women, using this simple Facebook trick.
Enjoy!
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August 26th, 2008 at 2:20 am
That’s a very nice trick !
August 26th, 2008 at 2:46 am
Awesome tip, Tal!!
August 26th, 2008 at 2:47 am
would L or B work?
August 26th, 2008 at 2:49 am
you can also use t and q if you need a smaller picture
August 26th, 2008 at 7:26 am
Could someone just make a greasemonkey script for this? It would be very simple. I would do it if I knew how.
August 26th, 2008 at 7:38 am
Thanks! In addition to this, you can use Boost, a Firefox extension for facebook. It’ll automatically load the larger images and display it when you hover over the image with your mouse, similar to how it’d typically display alt text.
August 26th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Or if your using firefox just hold Control and roll the mouse wheel up.
August 26th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Great tip, dude!!
August 26th, 2008 at 10:41 am
I never noticed they did it that way. Thanks.
August 26th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
now a days facebook put n as prefix to all the images.
if you are using Firefox, just put the mouse over the image, right click on it and say view image. it will automatically increase the size and shows you bigger picture.
August 26th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Hi Everyone, thank you for all your comments and tips.
@Andres:
with this, you will definitely not be able to recognize people.
@Ariel: I haven’t heard of that. This sounds amazingly simple. Will look into it.
@Monk: True…very simple indeed.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:48 am
i don’t know how to do this trick
beacause i can’t understand this ““S†character in the name of the picture, for example: “……/S23939.jpgâ€. Just change change the letter “s†to the letter “n†and you are good to go.”
what is that mean ““S†” ?need help plz
August 27th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Wow! That is totally great! Thanks!
August 29th, 2008 at 3:36 am
Hi Hazem, thank you for the comment.
When you see the image you would like to enlarge, simply right click it and copy image location. Paste the copied location into a new tab/window.
Within that image location is the letter “s”. In order to make that Facebook pic bigger, just replace that letter “s” with the letter “n”.
You can also look at the images in the post…the large and the small have the same ending for the url, just “S” was replaced with “N”.
Hope it helps
September 2nd, 2008 at 1:06 pm
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When browsing through Facebook profile pictures, the images are usually too small. Would you like to know an easy Facebook trick how to make them bigger, so you can finally recognize an old friend or acquaintance through their limited sized profile pic…
September 21st, 2008 at 7:49 am
Hi, I have noticed some facebook users have profile pictures that are larger than others (and I mean permanently) I want to make my profile pic permanently larger. How do I make this happen, please? I would appreciate any help. Thank you.
September 23rd, 2008 at 2:32 pm
I’m sorry i can’t seem to get it to work?
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October 14th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Hi,
I did what it says above; open my profile picture in a new browser; but there is no letter “S” in my picture name that I can change and have a bigger picture?
Would someone can help?
November 26th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
coool !
thanx…
peace
November 29th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Hey people!!!
I’m very confused, I don’t know how to make facebook!
Can someone help me please!!!
I need my friends there!!!
Please help me!!!
Love you forever, and kiss you forever yours Mina from Serbia!!
January 11th, 2009 at 6:02 am
it does work! but it doesnt give u the ORIGINAL size
January 15th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
I love you for ever??????
January 16th, 2009 at 12:11 am
anyone know how to get your profile pic to be big?
i’ve seen some people with really big pictures in place of the standard default pics
January 18th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
when i copy and go to paste it in a new folder the paste is not dark and won’t allow me to paste it there!
February 9th, 2009 at 3:03 am
Thank You for sharing the trick
March 10th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Does this trick still work. I cant seem to figure it out.
What does it mean to “copy image location”?
thanks
March 21st, 2009 at 8:37 am
It would be nice ..if you can show me how to make it by vdo..or show the picture how to make it step by step
April 4th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
i want chat my farinds
April 29th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
HI
May 6th, 2009 at 3:16 am
I would like to download pictures from the phone and in to facebook.?
May 13th, 2009 at 6:23 am
ok.. i have the pic on my desktop and this is what i see
file:///C:/Users/Bimal/Desktop/4310_663843380463_8212501_39323541_3289198_n.jpg
and then iopened a new on on mozilla and tried to change it to s.jpg
but it didnt work
May 13th, 2009 at 6:27 am
@Bimal and other friends that cant get it to work: if you use firefox just copy paste the url location of the picture by pressing the right click button ( copy image url location) and paste it in a new window and change it on the browser , if you downloading the picture to the desktop it will not help you its need to be online so do it in the browser WITHOUT downloading it but just change it in the url and it will work just fine
Good luck,
Tal
May 25th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
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June 20th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
i dont know how to download my pics into facebook.
June 25th, 2009 at 3:18 am
Thank you I was going crazy for days
August 10th, 2009 at 4:41 am
could someone help me plz i cant find the “S” your all talking about
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30233400&id=1518206233
thats the image location what should i change init?
September 2nd, 2009 at 6:22 pm
How do I make the picture on MY OWN profile bigger?
Everything photo I’ve uploaded -regardless of size – is square shapped when viewed on my profile.
Yet I see many people with a much larger (taller to be more precise) picture that is rectangular shaped.
I want that – but can’t figure out how. Can you help?
September 23rd, 2009 at 9:57 pm
this shit doesn’t fucking work any more
October 5th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
People’s profile pictures are larger when they crop someone out of the photo. You can not make a regular photo larger…only if you crop someone out of it.