Size Of Profile Picture for Facebook | Update 2019

Need the best Facebook image dimensions?

Right here are all the details you require to size your pictures as well as graphics to look their finest on your Facebook Fan Web Page. Consists Of Cover Photo, Profile Photo, as well as Wall Photos.

Facebook Cover Picture Capacities

Starting at the top, your Cover Image will certainly be displayed at 851 pixels (px) by 315px. You have the opportunity to adjust the chopping, yet can not resize the photo that you post or choose from your Fan Web page albums.

To ensure you'll such as the results, size in a picture editor before submitting. Start with a picture that goes to the very least 851 pixels wide. Increasing the size of a reduced resolution picture can make it look fuzzy or pixelated.

NOTE: Your Web page Call, group, and switches have actually moved inside the Cover Photo as of mid-June 2014. Get my design template at the web link listed below so they will not obstruct an important part of your Cover design.

Facebook Account Image Size

The Facebook Profile Image is presented on your Follower Page at 160px square, however have to be uploaded at the very least 180px square. You can additionally submit a larger picture, preferably in a several of 180, such as 360, 540, or 720, and Facebook will certainly resize it for you. This may offer you better quality, as well as will certainly give you a larger picture in your Image Album!

Facebook Follower Page App Images/ Thumbnails

The App Images, Tab Images, or Thumbnails that made use of to appear under your Cover Image have actually transferred to the left column. Only 3 show on the page, but when the arrowhead is clicked, every app thumbnail can be seen. It's a good idea to personalize them.

The Facebook app thumbnails are still 111px broad by 74px high. Maintain them basic-- perhaps just type that shares a call-to-action.

Facebook Fan Web Page Application Favicons
The FB Fan Page Application used to have tiny 16px favicons. These have actually been removed.

Facebook Follower Page Apps

Your Follower Page app can be a single photo (example here). The width of the tab is 810px, as well as the maximum height for a full-tab photo is 1200px. This is the only Facebook photo that I've found to have a file dimension limitation, and it's 400kb. Pick the appropriate compression when conserving your jpeg, It won't upload if larger than 400kb.

For info on exactly how to include customized tabs to your Fan Page, checked out: Facebook Timeline Fan Page Tabs: Include Your Site to FB

Facebook Wall Surface Picture Dimension

Pictures shared on your wall are presented at 504 pixels large and as much as 504 pixels high. When sizing your graphics as well as photos, make them a minimum of 504 pixels. Facebook is suggesting 1200 pixels.

Elevation can vary-- straight as well as high photos will certainly work. I made use of to suggest a tall proportion of 4:5, and now these will certainly be lowered to 504 pixels high with gray bars on the sides (see sample).

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

Facebook Picture Viewer Photo Size

Pictures you have actually posted will certainly show up in the Photo Visitor, or lightbox, at the maximum resolution feasible, depending upon the dimension you posted them and the visitor's display gadget. The maximum Facebook picture dimension for upload as well as download is 2048 px square. If you post a bigger photo, Facebook will certainly decrease it so the lengthiest side is 2048 px. Keep in mind that images can be downloaded at the full size you have actually uploaded, at least as much as 2048 px.

For optimum display, Facebook advises that you resize your photos before submitting to one of these widths they support:

• 720 px


• 960 px


• 2048 px

If you upload 2048 px images, make certain to select the High Quality choice.

WARNING: Photos you post to Facebook can be downloaded and install by anybody you have actually permitted to watch them in your approvals (and also Follower Page messages are constantly public). Any photos may be downloaded and install and also recycled, despite the fact that that would be copyright violation (unless you give permission). Just How to Report Cases of Intellectual Property Violation.

You have actually additionally permitted Facebook to disperse your images according to their Regards to Solution:

For material that is covered by intellectual property civil liberties, like pictures and also videos (IP material), you specifically offer us the adhering to consent, based on your privacy and also application setups: you give us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide permit to use any IP web content that you post on or about Facebook (IP License). This IP Certificate finishes when you erase your IP web content or your account unless your material has actually been shown to others, and they have actually not deleted it.

I suggest you NOT submit your expert photos at high resolution unless you have a details factor to do so (for example, you desire fans to download images of an event). I additionally recommend you watermark your pictures.

Facebook Turning Point or Highlighted Message Picture Size

Landmarks and also Highlighted Articles utilized to cover both columns of your Timeline. Since Follower Pages have just one column for posts (as of mid-June 2014), there are no double-wide pictures.

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