Facebook Profile Pic Dimensions

Facebook Profile Picture Size



Need the best Facebook picture dimensions?

Below are all the details you require to size your pictures as well as graphics to look their best on your Facebook Follower Web Page. Includes Cover Picture, Account Image, and also Wall Photos.

Facebook Cover Image Capacities

Starting at the top, your Cover Photo will be presented at 851 pixels (px) by 315px. You have the chance to readjust the chopping, but can not resize the picture that you publish or choose from your Follower Web page cds.

To ensure you'll such as the results, size in a picture editor prior to posting. Begin with a picture that's at least 851 pixels broad. Increasing the size of a lower resolution picture can make it look unclear or pixelated.

NOTE: Your Page Name, category, and also switches have actually relocated inside the Cover Image since mid-June 2014. Get my design template at the link below so they won't obstruct an integral part of your Cover layout.

Facebook Profile Photo Size

The Facebook Profile Image is presented on your Fan Page at 160px square, yet must be submitted at the very least 180px square. You can likewise post a bigger image, preferably in a multiple of 180, such as 360, 540, or 720, and also Facebook will certainly resize it for you. This might offer you much better clarity, and will absolutely offer you a bigger picture in your Image Album!

Facebook Follower Page App Images/ Thumbnails

The Application Pictures, Tab Images, or Thumbnails that utilized to appear under your Cover Photo have actually relocated to the left column. Just 3 show on the web page, but when the arrowhead is clicked, every application thumbnail can be seen. It's a great idea to tailor them.

The Facebook app thumbnails are still 111px large by 74px high. Keep them easy-- possibly just type that shares a call-to-action.

Facebook Fan Web Page Application Favicons
The FB Fan Page Application made use of to have small 16px favicons. These have been removed.

Facebook Fan Page Apps

Your Follower Web page app can be a solitary photo (sample below). The width of the tab is 810px, and the optimum elevation for a full-tab picture is 1200px. This is the only Facebook photo that I've found to have a data size constraint, and also it's 400kb. Choose the suitable compression when conserving your jpeg, It won't upload if larger than 400kb.

For details on how to add custom-made tabs to your Fan Web page, reviewed: Facebook Timeline Fan Web Page Tabs: Add Your Website to FB

Facebook Wall Surface Image Dimension

Pictures shared on your wall are presented at 504 pixels vast and also up to 504 pixels high. When sizing your graphics and also photos, make them at least 504 pixels. Facebook is recommending 1200 pixels.

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

Horizontal images will certainly fill up the 504 pixel size, however will not have the influence of square. Square looks finest on the wall.

Facebook Image Audience Photo Dimension

Images you have actually published will certainly appear in the Photo Customer, or lightbox, at the optimum resolution feasible, depending on the size you uploaded them and also the audience's display device. The maximum Facebook photo dimension for upload and download is 2048 px square. If you upload a bigger image, Facebook will certainly minimize it so the lengthiest side is 2048 px. Remember that pictures can be downloaded and install at the full size you've uploaded, at the very least approximately 2048 px.

For optimum display screen, Facebook recommends that you resize your photos before posting to among these widths they support:

  • 720 px

  • 960 px

  • 2048 px


If you publish 2048 px pictures, make sure to pick the High Quality option.

CAUTION: Photos you upload to Facebook can be downloaded and install by anyone you have actually allowed to watch them in your approvals (and also Follower Web page articles are constantly public). Any type of pictures could be downloaded and install and also recycled, even though that would certainly be copyright violation (unless you give permission). How to Report Cases of Intellectual Property Violation.

You have actually also enabled Facebook to disperse your images according to their Regards to Solution:

For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like images as well as video clips (IP web content), you specifically offer us the following consent, subject to your privacy and also application settings: you give us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, around the world license to utilize any IP web content that you upload on or about Facebook (IP License). This IP License ends when you remove your IP web content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have actually not deleted it.

I suggest you NOT submit your professional images at high resolution unless you have a specific reason to do so (for example, you desire followers to download and install pictures of an event). I additionally recommend you watermark your photos.

Facebook Milestone or Highlighted Message Photo Size

Turning Points and also Highlighted Messages made use of to extend both columns of your Timeline. Now that Fan Pages have just one column for articles (as of mid-June 2014), there are no double-wide images.