Profile Picture Facebook Size

Facebook Profile Picture Size



Required the most effective Facebook photo dimensions?

Here are all the details you require to size your pictures and graphics to look their finest on your Facebook Follower Page. Consists Of Cover Photo, Account Image, as well as Wall Photos.

Facebook Cover Picture Capacities

Starting on top, your Cover Image will certainly be shown at 851 pixels (px) by 315px. You have the possibility to readjust the cropping, yet can not resize the image that you post or pick from your Fan Page cds.

To ensure you'll like the results, size in a picture editor prior to posting. Begin with a picture that goes to the very least 851 pixels large. Enlarging a reduced resolution photo can make it look blurry or pixelated.

KEEP IN MIND: Your Web page Call, category, as well as switches have relocated inside the Cover Image since mid-June 2014. Order my layout at the web link below so they won't obstruct an integral part of your Cover design.

Facebook Account Image Size

The Facebook Account Picture is shown on your Fan Web page at 160px square, however need to be uploaded a minimum of 180px square. You can likewise publish a bigger picture, ideally in a multiple of 180, such as 360, 540, or 720, and Facebook will certainly resize it for you. This may provide you better clearness, and will certainly give you a larger image in your Picture Album!

Facebook Follower Web Page Application Images/ Thumbnails

The App Photos, Tab Images, or Thumbnails that utilized to appear under your Cover Image have actually relocated to the left column. Just 3 show on the web page, yet when the arrowhead is clicked, every application thumbnail can be seen. It's an excellent suggestion to personalize them.

The Facebook application thumbnails are still 111px broad by 74px high. Maintain them easy-- maybe simply kind that reveals a call-to-action.

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

Facebook Fan Page Applications

Your Follower Web page app can be a solitary picture (sample here). The width of the tab is 810px, and the maximum elevation for a full-tab photo is 1200px. This is the only Facebook image that I've located to have a documents size limitation, and also it's 400kb. Select the appropriate compression when saving your jpeg, It won't publish if larger than 400kb.

For info on exactly how to include personalized tabs to your Fan Web page, read: Facebook Timeline Fan Page Tabs: Include Your Web Site to FB

Facebook Wall Surface Image Size

Pictures shared on your wall are displayed at 504 pixels large as well as approximately 504 pixels high. When sizing your graphics as well as pictures, make them at least 504 pixels. Facebook is recommending 1200 pixels.

Elevation can differ-- horizontal and high pictures will certainly function. I used to advise a tall percentage of 4:5, today these will be minimized to 504 pixels high with grey bars on the sides (see sample).

Horizontal images will certainly load the 504 pixel width, yet will not have the effect of square. Square looks finest on the wall.

Facebook Image Visitor Photo Dimension

Pictures you've uploaded will appear in the Photo Viewer, or lightbox, at the maximum resolution possible, relying on the dimension you posted them as well as the audience's display gadget. The maximum Facebook image size for upload as well as download is 2048 px square. If you post a bigger image, Facebook will minimize it so the longest side is 2048 px. Bear in mind that images can be downloaded at the complete size you have actually uploaded, at least as much as 2048 px.

For optimum display, Facebook advises that you resize your pictures prior to publishing to among these widths they support:

  • 720 px

  • 960 px

  • 2048 px


If you upload 2048 px images, be sure to choose the Premium quality choice.

WARNING: Photos you publish to Facebook can be downloaded by any individual you have actually allowed to watch them in your consents (as well as Follower Web page blog posts are always public). Any type of pictures may be downloaded and recycled, even though that would certainly be copyright violation (unless you permit). Just How to Report Claims of Intellectual Property Infringement.

You've also permitted Facebook to distribute your images according to their Regards to Service:

For web content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like pictures as well as videos (IP material), you particularly offer us the complying with consent, subject to your personal privacy as well as application setups: you give us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, globally license to utilize any kind of IP material that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP Certificate). This IP Certificate ends when you remove your IP material or your account unless your material has been shown to others, and they have actually not deleted it.

I recommend you NOT post your professional photos at high resolution unless you have a details reason to do so (for example, you desire fans to download printable photos of an event). I likewise recommend you watermark your pictures.

Facebook Landmark or Highlighted Message Photo Dimension

Turning Points and Highlighted Messages utilized to cover both columns of your Timeline. Now that Follower Pages have just one column for messages (since mid-June 2014), there are no double-wide pictures.