How to add a photo to VKontakte. Adding photos from your phone Nice photos to add to your contact
Today we will learn how to add photos from your computer or smartphone directly to the VKontakte social network. We will consider different situations. There will be a lot of practice and text too, so let's get straight to the point.
How to add a main photo to your profile picture
You want to change your avatar or you don’t have one at all, it doesn’t matter, let’s see how it’s done. We go to our page and at the place where the avatar should be, hover the mouse, click on the link “Upload a new photo”:
At the next stage, click on the “Select file” button to upload it from your computer:
Find the desired photo on your hard drive and click on the “Open” button:
Select the part of the image that will be visible on your page and click on the “Save and Continue” button:
Now select the area that will be displayed on thumbnails in your correspondence or on the wall, in comments, etc. Click on the “Save Changes” button:
That's it, I congratulate you, now you have a new avatar.
How to add a photo to an album
We have already discussed this with you. If you don't know how to do this, follow the link. Now let's look at how photos are added there.
Select the album into which we want to insert pictures and click on it:
At the next stage, click on the “Add photos to album” button:
We look for the photo on our hard drive that we want to upload and click on the “Open” button:
If we want, then enter a description and click on the “Save Photos” button:
Adding photos to the wall
Directly on the wall, place the mouse cursor on the input field and click on the camera icon in the upper right corner, or click on the “Attach” link and select “Photo” from the drop-down menu:
Uploading photos from your computer:
If we want, then enter the text in front of the photo and click on the “Send” button:
That's it, it's added to the wall.
How to add a photo to a group
We have already looked at it. I see no point in repeating myself here. Just follow the link and read how it's done. Once you allow photos to be added to your group and create an album, adding photos there is easy.
How to move a photo to another album
There is nothing complicated here. Go to “My Photos” and find the one you need, open it. Below the image there is a link “Actions”. Click on it and select “Move to album” from the drop-down list.
One of the features of any popular social network is adding, viewing and commenting on photos. Such functions are available on Facebook, Twitter, Odnoklassniki and, of course, on the social network VKontakte, which is the most popular in Russia. VKontakte developers are constantly improving the function of adding photos, integrating new features, including for photo editing. In this regard, the process of uploading a VKontakte photo is becoming more and more difficult. In this article, we will look at how to add a photo to VK in a personal album or group, both from a computer and from a phone.
Table of contents:How to add a photo in VK to your personal page from a computer
Most often, a user wants to add photos taken to his page from a computer, so we’ll start looking at this functionality from this scenario. To upload a photo to your page, do the following:
How to add a photo to a group on VK from a computer
VKontakte groups can have photo albums where you can upload photos. Any user can do this if the photo album is configured accordingly by administrators. To upload a photo to a group on VK, you need to do the following:
Please note that after uploading a photo, it is immediately published in the album, before changes are made to it using the editor.
How to add a photo to VK from your phone
Many users actively visit the social network VKontakte only with mobile phone or tablet. Most often this happens through the official VKontakte application on Android oriOS. Let's look at how to add photos to your page from it:
This is how you add photos to VKontakte groups from your phone.
VKontakte tips will tell you how to add photos “VKontakte” to “My Photos” and how to create photo albums.
In order to add a “VKontakte” photo to your page, in addition to the one that is your main photo (avatar), you need to click on the inscription “My Photos”. The system will redirect you to the “Photos” page. If you have not yet added a “VKontakte” photo, you will see an inscription that informs you that you can store an unlimited number of “VKontakte” photos on your personal page. And invites you to click on the link to start creating your first photo album.
By following the “click here” link, you will be taken to the “New Album” page. Here you will be asked to enter the name of your photo album and its description in the blank lines. Under these lines you will see information that “All users” can view and comment on the “VKontakte” album and photos. If you left-click on the words “All users”, you will see context menu with options for who you can allow and or deny to view your photos: “All users, Only friends, Friends and friends of friends, Only me, Everyone except..., Some friends.” Select an option and click the “Create Album” button.
The system will redirect you to the “Adding Photos” page. You will be asked to upload photos from your computer in supported JPG, PNG or GIF formats and information that you can upload up to 50 “VKontakte” photos at a time. To do this, open the folder with your photos on your computer, mark the ones you want to download by pressing and holding the “Ctrl” key.
When the photos are uploaded, you need to click on the “Send” button at the bottom of the page and in the small window that appears, click on the “Send” button again. The system will inform you that the download is complete and you have successfully uploaded the “VKontakte” photo. On the right side you will see the uploaded photos, and to the left of each “VKontakte” photo there will be an empty rectangle in which you can enter a description of the photo.
Please note that all “VKontakte” photos from your albums can be edited at any time by changing the settings for viewing and commenting on your “VKontakte” photos. But you can edit the entire album, that is, the editing settings will be applied to all photos in the album. If you want to make some VKontakte photos available only to friends, and some to everyone, you need to place them in different albums. And for each album, set your own privacy characteristics.
Photos are added to the “Photos with me” list automatically after you or your friends tag you in the “VKontakte” photo. You can delete a photo from the “Photos of me” folder only by deleting this photo from the album of the person who uploaded it. If you need to save some “VKontakte” photo from the “Photos with me” folder, use right click mouse and select “Save As”. It is best to crop the “VKontakte” photo so that only you are on it on your computer, using any photo viewing and editing program and then uploading it to the site.
The VKontakte website does not support multi-layered VKontakte photos. therefore, you will not be able to post an animated picture.
If you accidentally blocked some photos on VKontakte, you can correct the situation by cleaning your browser. It doesn’t matter which Internet browser you use, the algorithm of actions is the same. IN Mozilla Firefox you need to go to the “Tools” tab, select “Settings” and the “Content” tab. Make sure there is a checkmark next to “Automatically download images”. Go to “Exceptions” and if there are addresses there that contain the “vkontakte.ru” address, remove them from the list.
Today, every smartphone is equipped with a digital camera, so more and more pictures are taken with the phone. Using an application for iPhone or Android, it is very convenient to upload images to VK directly from your mobile phone.
There are several ways to add your photo via phone to VK:
- attach a picture to a post on the wall,
- download from the gallery on your device.
After this, the service will go to the device folder in which the pictures are stored. Check one or more of them and click the checkmark in the upper right corner.
To add a photo from your phone to a post, go to the “New Post” tab and write a few lines or a couple of popular hashtags.
Now click on the camera icon and mark from 1 to 10 pictures that should be included in the recording.
In the same way, you can attach photos to your comments in groups or communities.
Images can be uploaded to an existing album. To do this, go to the “Photos” section in the drop-down menu on the left. Select the Albums tab and open the one you want. Next, click on the cross in the upper right corner. The system will prompt you to either select an existing image from the gallery or take a photo.
Add a photo from your smartphone without going into the application
After this, the device will display a list of applications through which you can send this photo to the Internet or to people from your contacts. Click on the VKontakte social network icon. Next, select where you want to upload the image:
- to the album,
- on the wall,
- in documents.
You can also send the picture as a private message to yourself or one of your friends.
Photo images in VK can be duplicated from Instagram. To do this, you need to link your account in the settings by specifying your profile login and password. Now, when you post on Instagram, activate the VK link and the posts will be duplicated on this social network.
Hello, dear readers of the site.
Let's start with posting on a personal page, then we'll talk about communities, pay attention to publishing from a phone, and at the end we'll learn how to quickly post materials from Instagram on VKontakte.
There are several options for this placement: on the wall, in the photography section, in an album, and by setting an avatar. You may find some or all of them useful. Let's look at each method separately.
On the wall
To attach an image to a post, click the camera icon below the text. You can post graphics without an accompanying message, but this is rarely done.
In Explorer on your computer, select the required file. Or take a photo in real time, it will appear under new entry. Click "Submit". Done, new material has been published on the wall.
On the page
Go to the corresponding menu item.
Click on the “Add Photos” button. Select one or more files in Explorer and open them. Now you can make some adjustments:
- make a description,
- to turn,
- open photo editor,
- remove if necessary.
All this is done using icons on each thumbnail.
After processing is complete, we confirm our desire to publish the images on the site.
Now you can see them in your account in the appropriate section.
In album
If you don’t already know that graphics can be stored in separate folders, read the article on how to create an album in VK. If you already have ready-made catalogs, after uploading photos from hard drive You can choose not “Publish on my page”, but “Add to album”.
In the window that opens, select the location where you want to move the files.
Main profile photo
Hover your cursor over the current image and a menu will pop up. Select Update Photo.
Here you can take a snapshot or download a ready-made one from your computer. When the download is complete, confirm your choice with the “Save and Continue” button, or go back and select another option.
Finally, define an area for a small avatar that will appear next to your messages and in other users' friends lists. Save your changes.
Add a photo to the community
If you are the creator or administrator of a community, then posting graphic content is an obligatory part of filling it out. Here, as in personal profile, there are several options for publishing materials: on a page, in an album, changing the main thumbnail.
And we will use the same techniques. First, go to the main menu section “Groups”, “Management” and go to the community that we plan to edit.
To publish news with a picture on the wall, write the text in the “Add entry” field and attach graphic file. To do this, click on the icon depicting a camera. You can select from the materials available on your personal page or download from your PC. When the download is complete, we post the content to the wall.
To create and fill a group album, you need to go to the “Management” menu, “Sections” and add the ability to publish photos. The program offers you to choose from 2 types of access – open and closed. In the first case, all group members can post photos, in the second - only administrators. Save the settings and move on.
Here you can upload images to the main directory created automatically or go to the “All photos” tab - “Create an album”.
You can then download pictures saved on your hard drive. To do this, go to the album and click on “Add photos” or drag documents from a folder on your computer with the mouse.
To change the “face” of the group, upload a photo to the main page.
Uploading photos to VK via phone
Often pictures are taken with a camera mobile device. Few people carry a digital camera with them. Therefore, there is no point in transferring data to a computer; it is easier to post it on a social network directly from the gadget.
To post photos from an iPhone or Android mobile device, go to the official social network application. Open the menu by clicking on the three dots in the corner of the screen and follow the “Photos” link. We are interested in the “Albums” tab. Let's go there.
If necessary, we create new folder, if not, add files to the existing one. To do this, click on the plus sign and then on the appropriate option: “Upload from gallery” or “Take a photo”.
Similarly, you can upload photos to mobile version browser.
The official program for mobile phones provides another interesting opportunity - publishing pictures to VKontakte history. To do this, you need to open the news and click on your avatar with a plus sign or on the camera at the top of the screen.
If the program makes a request, allow it access to the camera. Then tap the big circle at the bottom of the screen and take a photo. The story will be shown to friends and subscribers throughout the day.
Posting images to the community
To add a photo to a group, go to it. Under the main information there should be a “Photos” block. We go there, select the “Albums” tab. We open the one that we want to replenish, and using the plus sign in the corner, we load graphic materials from the gallery or take a photo in real time.
We publish photos through the gallery
The same result can be achieved if you go to the folder where the images are stored on your phone. Check the files that need to be sent to VK and click on the icon at the top of the screen. For me it looks like in the screenshot.
Autoposting from Instagram to VK
And finally, as I promised, a little trick for fans of Instagram and VK. Open your VKontakte profile and click “Edit” under the main photo. In the menu on the right, go to “Contacts”.
At the bottom of the window we see the inscription “Integration with other services”. When you click on it, it will appear social media, with which you can link a profile in VK.
I have already entered my data, so they offer me settings for transferring materials. I recommend checking the box next to “Do not import (with hashtag only).” Then not all posts will be automatically transferred from Instagram to VK, but only those with the hashtag #vk - for import into a pre-selected album, #vkpost - for publication on the wall.
Save your results and try new possibilities. If something goes wrong, you can disable this feature at any time.
Conclusion
Today we looked at many ways to publish a photo on VKontakte. Choose the ones that are suitable and convenient for you, get a lot of likes on your posts, fill in and. Share your impressions of the information received in the comments and ask questions. And I say goodbye to you, but I know that there are many interesting meetings ahead.