Profile Picture Size In Facebook

Facebook Profile Picture Size



Need the very best Facebook picture dimensions?

Here are all the information you require to size your images and also graphics to look their finest on your Facebook Fan Page. Consists Of Cover Image, Profile Pic, as well as Wall Photos.

Facebook Cover Photo Capacities

Starting at the top, your Cover Picture will certainly be presented at 851 pixels (px) by 315px. You have the chance to readjust the cropping, yet can not resize the image that you post or choose from your Fan Web page albums.

To ensure you'll such as the outcomes, dimension in a picture editor prior to uploading. Start with a photo that's at the very least 851 pixels large. Enlarging a lower resolution image can make it look blurry or pixelated.

NOTE: Your Page Call, classification, as well as switches have moved inside the Cover Photo as of mid-June 2014. Order my template at the link listed below so they will not obstruct an integral part of your Cover design.

Facebook Profile Picture Size

The Facebook Account Photo is displayed on your Follower Web page at 160px square, yet have to be uploaded at the very least 180px square. You can additionally post a larger image, preferably in a numerous of 180, such as 360, 540, or 720, and Facebook will certainly resize it for you. This may give you much better clarity, and will certainly give you a bigger image in your Photo Cd!

Facebook Fan Web Page Application Images/ Thumbnails

The App Photos, Tab Images, or Thumbnails that made use of to show up under your Cover Image have transferred to the left column. Only 3 program on the page, however when the arrowhead is clicked, every app thumbnail can be seen. It's a great concept to personalize them.

The Facebook app thumbnails are still 111px broad by 74px high. Maintain them simple-- maybe just type that expresses a call-to-action.

Facebook Fan Web Page App Favicons
The FB Follower Page Apps made use of to have tiny 16px favicons. These have actually been gotten rid of.

Facebook Follower Page Applications

Your Follower Web page application can be a single picture (sample here). The width of the tab is 810px, and also the optimum height for a full-tab picture is 1200px. This is the only Facebook picture that I've discovered to have a file size restriction, and it's 400kb. Select the ideal compression when saving your jpeg, It will not publish if larger than 400kb.

For details on just how to include custom tabs to your Fan Page, read: Facebook Timeline Follower Web Page Tabs: Add Your Site to FB

Facebook Wall Picture Size

Images shared on your wall are presented at 504 pixels broad and as much as 504 pixels high. When sizing your graphics and pictures, make them a minimum of 504 pixels. Facebook is recommending 1200 pixels.

Elevation can differ-- straight and tall pictures will work. I made use of to recommend a tall proportion of 4:5, today these will be decreased to 504 pixels tall with gray bars on the sides (see example).

Straight pictures will certainly fill up the 504 pixel width, yet won't have the influence of square. Square looks finest on the wall.

Facebook Photo Customer Picture Dimension

Images you have actually submitted will show up in the Image Audience, or lightbox, at the optimum resolution feasible, depending on the size you published them as well as the audience's display device. The optimum Facebook picture size for upload and also download is 2048 px square. If you post a bigger image, Facebook will lower it so the longest side is 2048 px. Remember that images can be downloaded at the full dimension you have actually submitted, at least as much as 2048 px.

For optimum screen, Facebook recommends that you resize your images before publishing to one of these widths they support:

  • 720 px

  • 960 px

  • 2048 px


If you publish 2048 px pictures, make certain to select the High Quality option.

CAUTION: Photos you upload to Facebook can be downloaded by any individual you have actually permitted to watch them in your approvals (and also Follower Web page messages are always public). Any type of images might be downloaded and reused, although that would be copyright violation (unless you permit). Exactly How to Report Cases of Copyright Violation.

You've also enabled Facebook to distribute your photos according to their Regards to Service:

For web content that is covered by copyright legal rights, like photos as well as videos (IP content), you specifically give us the adhering to permission, based on your personal privacy and also application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, globally certificate to utilize any kind of IP content that you post on or about Facebook (IP Certificate). This IP Certificate ends when you remove your IP content or your account unless your material has actually been shown others, as well as they have not deleted it.

I suggest you NOT publish your professional images at high resolution unless you have a details reason to do so (for instance, you want followers to download printable photos of an occasion). I additionally recommend you watermark your pictures.

Facebook Turning Point or Highlighted Message Picture Dimension

Milestones and Highlighted Posts used to cover both columns of your Timeline. Now that Follower Pages have only one column for messages (as of mid-June 2014), there are no double-wide images.