Size for Facebook Profile

Facebook Profile Picture Size



Need the most effective Facebook photo dimensions?

Right here are all the information you require to size your photos as well as graphics to look their ideal on your Facebook Follower Page. Includes Cover Photo, Account Image, and Wall Photos.

Facebook Cover Image Capacities

Beginning on top, your Cover Image will be presented at 851 pixels (px) by 315px. You have the possibility to readjust the chopping, yet can not resize the photo that you publish or select from your Follower Web page cds.

To ensure you'll such as the outcomes, dimension in a picture editor before publishing. Begin with an image that goes to least 851 pixels vast. Increasing the size of a lower resolution image can make it look unclear or pixelated.

KEEP IN MIND: Your Page Name, group, and also switches have actually moved inside the Cover Picture as of mid-June 2014. Order my layout at the link listed below so they won't block an important part of your Cover design.

Facebook Profile Photo Size

The Facebook Account Photo is presented on your Follower Web page at 160px square, however need to be published at the very least 180px square. You can additionally post a larger image, preferably in a several of 180, such as 360, 540, or 720, as well as Facebook will certainly resize it for you. This may give you far better clarity, and will most definitely give you a larger picture in your Picture Album!

Facebook Follower Web Page App Images/ Thumbnails

The Application Photos, Tab Images, or Thumbnails that made use of to show up under your Cover Photo have actually relocated to the left column. Only 3 show on the page, yet when the arrowhead is clicked, every app thumbnail can be seen. It's a great idea to customize them.

The Facebook app thumbnails are still 111px vast by 74px high. Keep them easy-- perhaps simply type that reveals a call-to-action.

Facebook Follower Page Application Favicons
The FB Follower Page Application utilized to have tiny 16px favicons. These have been gotten rid of.

Facebook Follower Web Page Applications

Your Follower Page application can be a solitary photo (sample below). The size of the tab is 810px, and also the maximum height for a full-tab photo is 1200px. This is the only Facebook photo that I've located to have a file dimension restriction, and also it's 400kb. Choose the suitable compression when saving your jpeg, It won't post if larger than 400kb.

For information on exactly how to add customized tabs to your Fan Web page, reviewed: Facebook Timeline Follower Web Page Tabs: Include Your Web Site to FB

Facebook Wall Image Size

Pictures shared on your wall surface are displayed at 504 pixels broad and also approximately 504 pixels high. When sizing your graphics and also images, make them at least 504 pixels. Facebook is suggesting 1200 pixels.

Height can differ-- horizontal and also tall pictures will certainly work. I utilized to advise a high proportion of 4:5, now these will be decreased to 504 pixels high with gray bars on the sides (see example).

Horizontal photos will load the 504 pixel width, but won't have the effect of square. Square looks finest on the wall.

Facebook Photo Viewer Photo Dimension

Images you've uploaded will show up in the Photo Visitor, or lightbox, at the maximum resolution possible, depending on the dimension you submitted them and the visitor's screen gadget. The maximum Facebook picture size for upload and download is 2048 px square. If you upload a larger photo, Facebook will certainly reduce it so the lengthiest side is 2048 px. Remember that images can be downloaded and install at the complete size you've submitted, at least approximately 2048 px.

For ideal display screen, Facebook advises that you resize your images before publishing to among these sizes they sustain:

  • 720 px

  • 960 px

  • 2048 px


If you upload 2048 px photos, make sure to choose the Top quality alternative.

CAUTION: Photos you publish to Facebook can be downloaded and install by any person you have actually permitted to watch them in your authorizations (and Fan Web page blog posts are constantly public). Any photos may be downloaded as well as recycled, even though that would certainly be copyright infringement (unless you give permission). Exactly How to Report Insurance Claims of Intellectual Property Violation.

You have actually additionally permitted Facebook to distribute your photos according to their Regards to Service:

For material that is covered by copyright rights, like pictures and also videos (IP web content), you especially give us the following consent, based on your privacy and application setups: you give us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, around the world certificate to utilize any kind of IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP Certificate). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has actually been shown to others, and they have not erased it.

I suggest you NOT submit your expert images at high resolution unless you have a certain reason to do so (as an example, you desire followers to download photos of an event). I likewise recommend you watermark your photos.

Facebook Turning Point or Highlighted Article Picture Dimension

Turning Points as well as Highlighted Messages made use of to span both columns of your Timeline. Now that Follower Pages have just one column for messages (as of mid-June 2014), there are no double-wide images.