Facebook Profile Photo Dimensions | Update 2019

Facebook Profile Picture Size



Required the very best Facebook image dimensions?

Below are all the information you require to size your images as well as graphics to look their ideal on your Facebook Follower Web Page. Consists Of Cover Photo, Account Pic, and also Wall Surface Photos.

Facebook Cover Picture Dimensions

Starting on top, your Cover Photo will be shown at 851 pixels (px) by 315px. You have the chance to change the cropping, however can not resize the image that you post or choose from your Fan Web page cds.

To guarantee you'll such as the results, dimension in a picture editor prior to uploading. Beginning with a photo that goes to the very least 851 pixels broad. Expanding a lower resolution picture can make it look blurry or pixelated.

NOTE: Your Web page Name, classification, and also switches have relocated inside the Cover Photo since mid-June 2014. Order my theme at the web link listed below so they will not block an important part of your Cover style.

Facebook Account Image Dimension

The Facebook Account Photo is presented on your Fan Page at 160px square, yet should be submitted at the very least 180px square. You can also post a bigger image, ideally in a numerous of 180, such as 360, 540, or 720, and Facebook will resize it for you. This may give you better clarity, and also will absolutely give you a larger image in your Image Album!

Facebook Fan Web Page Application Images/ Thumbnails

The Application Images, Tab Images, or Thumbnails that used to appear under your Cover Image have moved to the left column. Just 3 program on the page, however when the arrowhead is clicked, every application thumbnail can be seen. It's a great suggestion to customize them.

The Facebook app thumbnails are still 111px vast by 74px high. Maintain them basic-- possibly simply kind that reveals a call-to-action.

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

Facebook Fan Page Apps

Your Follower Web page application can be a single photo (example here). The size of the tab is 810px, and the optimum elevation for a full-tab photo is 1200px. This is the only Facebook photo that I've found to have a file size constraint, and it's 400kb. Choose the appropriate compression when saving your jpeg, It won't post if larger than 400kb.

For information on just how to include customized tabs to your Fan Web page, read: Facebook Timeline Fan Web Page Tabs: Add Your Internet Site to FB

Facebook Wall Photo Dimension

Images shared on your wall are presented at 504 pixels vast as well as as much as 504 pixels high. When sizing your graphics and also pictures, make them at least 504 pixels. Facebook is advising 1200 pixels.

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

Straight photos will fill the 504 pixel size, yet won't have the impact of square. Square looks ideal on the wall surface.

Facebook Photo Viewer Image Dimension

Pictures you have actually published will certainly show up in the Picture Customer, or lightbox, at the optimum resolution feasible, relying on the size you submitted them as well as the viewer's display tool. The maximum Facebook photo size for upload and download is 2048 px square. If you publish a larger picture, Facebook will minimize it so the longest side is 2048 px. Remember that pictures can be downloaded and install at the full size you've posted, a minimum of up to 2048 px.

For optimum display screen, Facebook suggests that you resize your images prior to posting to among these widths they sustain:

  • 720 px

  • 960 px

  • 2048 px


If you submit 2048 px images, make sure to pick the Premium quality choice.

WARNING: Photos you submit to Facebook can be downloaded by any person you've allowed to watch them in your permissions (as well as Follower Page articles are constantly public). Any pictures might be downloaded and recycled, despite the fact that that would be copyright violation (unless you give permission). How to Report Claims of Copyright Violation.

You've likewise permitted Facebook to disperse your images according to their Regards to Service:

For material that is covered by copyright legal rights, like photos and videos (IP web content), you particularly give us the complying with consent, subject to your personal privacy and also application setups: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, globally certificate to use any kind of IP content that you publish on or about Facebook (IP License). This IP Permit finishes when you remove your IP web content or your account unless your material has actually been shared with others, as well as they have actually not erased it.

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

Facebook Turning Point or Highlighted Message Image Size

Turning Points as well as Highlighted Articles utilized to extend both columns of your Timeline. Since Follower Pages have only one column for messages (as of mid-June 2014), there are no double-wide photos.