How to Customize, Delete, and Arrange Photos in Facebook Photo Albums

How to Add Additional Photos to an Album

You already uploaded all of your pictures to Facebook in bulk, but what if you missed a few? In the case that you need to add some additional pictures to an album that you uploaded on Facebook, Facebook gives you the option to add any photos and videos Which you might have missed when you uploaded the album. You can upload more pictures in just a few simple clicks to do that:

1. Go to your Facebook profile tab.
2. Click on Photos > Albums.
3. Click the album.
4. Hit the Add Photos/Videos found in the top-left corner of the album.
5. Choose any additional photos or videos from your computer, and upload them to that album.

How to Customize an Album Cover

After you create an album on Facebook, Facebook would automatically choose one of the photos as the album's thumbnail. This picture would serve as the cover of your album, so it should add up the trip, experience, or the occasion that you are documenting. If you want to change your album's cover, you can easily create an album cover that better represents your content by following these simple steps:

1. Go to your profile tab.
2. Click Photos > Albums.
3. Choose the album that you want to edit.
4. Hover across the picture that you want to use as the cover of your album, and click the pencil icon in the top-right corner of the image.
5. Choose "Make Cover Photo" from the dropdown menu.

When you try to view your album on Facebook, you will now see this image as the cover.

How to Delete Multiple Photos From an Album

If you do not want to deactivate your Facebook account, but want to take down several pictures for privacy reasons, you might want to delete multiple photos from your Facebook album. Facebook does not have an easy bulk deletion option, so you will have to delete each image one-by-one using this method:

1. Go to your profile.
2. Click on Photos > Albums.
3. Choose the album you want to edit.
4. Mouse over the photo you wish to delete and click the pencil icon.
5. Click on the "Delete This Photo" button at the bottom of the dropdown menu.

It is a time-consuming process, but it is the only way to get rid of unwanted images.

How to Arrange Photos in a Facebook Album

Maybe you might need to arrange the photos that are in a Facebook album so that your favorite pictures would be at the beginning of the album. Or maybe you want to organize your pictures by subject, location, or date. Either option, you have the freedom to change the order of the photos that are in a Facebook album by doing the following:

1. Open up your Facebook profile tab.
2. Go to Photos > Album.
3. Click the album that you want to rearrange.
4. Click on Edit in the top-right corner of the album.
5. Hover over the picture you want to move.
6. Click and drag the photo to another location.
7. Hit Save after you’re done.

As you drag the pictures, you will notice that the other photos in your album would automatically shift to accommodate the new position.

How to Download a Facebook Photo Album

Downloading your Facebook photo albums allows you t save your entire album to your computer. These simple steps would start the downloading process:

1. Open your profile tab.
2. Go to Photos > Albums.
3. Click the album you want to download to your computer.
4. Click on the gear icon found the top-right hand corner of the album, and click on Download Album, next click on Continue.

Depending on how big your album is, it might take a few minutes to download.