Facebook Profile Dimensions | Update 2019

Facebook Profile Picture Size



Need the most effective Facebook photo dimensions?

Below are all the information you need to size your pictures and graphics to look their ideal on your Facebook Fan Web Page. Includes Cover Picture, Profile Image, and also Wall Photos.

Facebook Cover Photo Dimensions

Beginning at the top, your Cover Picture will certainly be presented at 851 pixels (px) by 315px. You have the opportunity to adjust the cropping, however can not resize the image that you post or choose from your Follower Web page albums.

To guarantee you'll such as the outcomes, size in a picture editor before submitting. Beginning with a picture that goes to the very least 851 pixels vast. Expanding a reduced resolution photo can make it look unclear or pixelated.

KEEP IN MIND: Your Web page Call, group, and also switches have relocated inside the Cover Image since mid-June 2014. Grab my theme at the web link below so they won't obstruct an integral part of your Cover layout.

Facebook Account Photo Dimension

The Facebook Profile Photo is shown on your Follower Web page at 160px square, yet have to be submitted at least 180px square. You can additionally upload a larger image, preferably in a multiple of 180, such as 360, 540, or 720, and also Facebook will certainly resize it for you. This might give you much better quality, and also will definitely give you a larger picture in your Photo Cd!

Facebook Follower Page Application Images/ Thumbnails

The App Pictures, 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, but when the arrowhead is clicked, every application thumbnail can be seen. It's a great concept to tailor them.

The Facebook application thumbnails are still 111px vast by 74px high. Maintain them basic-- maybe simply type that reveals a call-to-action.

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

Facebook Follower Web Page Apps

Your Fan Web page app can be a solitary picture (example below). The size of the tab is 810px, and also the maximum height for a full-tab picture is 1200px. This is the only Facebook photo that I have actually located to have a file size limitation, as well as it's 400kb. Choose the proper compression when conserving your jpeg, It won't publish if larger than 400kb.

For information on just how to add custom tabs to your Fan Web page, checked out: Facebook Timeline Fan Page Tabs: Add Your Internet Site to FB

Facebook Wall Surface Picture Dimension

Images shared on your wall surface are presented at 504 pixels large as well as up to 504 pixels high. When sizing your graphics and photos, make them a minimum of 504 pixels. Facebook is advising 1200 pixels.

Height can differ-- horizontal and also tall photos will certainly function. I made use of to advise a high percentage of 4:5, now these will certainly be reduced to 504 pixels high with gray bars on the sides (see sample).

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

Facebook Photo Customer Image Dimension

Images you've submitted will certainly appear in the Image Viewer, or lightbox, at the optimum resolution feasible, relying on the size you posted them as well as the viewer's screen tool. The maximum Facebook picture size for upload and download is 2048 px square. If you post a bigger picture, Facebook will certainly lower it so the longest side is 2048 px. Remember that images can be downloaded at the complete size you've published, at the very least as much as 2048 px.

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

  • 720 px

  • 960 px

  • 2048 px


If you submit 2048 px images, be sure to pick the High Quality alternative.

CAUTION: Photos you submit to Facebook can be downloaded by anyone you've allowed to watch them in your permissions (and also Follower Web page articles are always public). Any kind of images could be downloaded and reused, even though that would certainly be copyright infringement (unless you permit). Exactly How to Report Insurance Claims of Intellectual Property Infringement.

You've likewise allowed Facebook to distribute your images according to their Terms of Solution:

For web content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and also videos (IP material), you specifically provide us the adhering to permission, based on your personal privacy and application setups: you approve us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to utilize any kind of IP web content that you upload on or in connection with Facebook (IP Certificate). This IP Certificate finishes when you remove your IP material or your account unless your web content has actually been shared with others, as well as they have not removed it.

I advise you NOT submit your specialist images at high resolution unless you have a specific factor to do so (for instance, you want fans to download printable pictures of an occasion). I likewise suggest you watermark your images.

Facebook Milestone or Highlighted Blog Post Photo Size

Turning Points as well as Highlighted Posts used to extend both columns of your Timeline. Since Fan Pages have just one column for blog posts (as of mid-June 2014), there are no double-wide pictures.