Perfect Size for Facebook Profile Picture

Required the very best Facebook photo dimensions?

Here are all the details you need to size your pictures and graphics to look their ideal on your Facebook Follower Page. Includes Cover Photo, Profile Image, and Wall Photos.

Facebook Cover Photo Dimensions

Starting at the top, your Cover Image will be displayed at 851 pixels (px) by 315px. You have the chance to adjust the cropping, but can not resize the photo that you submit or pick from your Follower Web page albums.

To ensure you'll such as the results, dimension in a picture editor prior to uploading. Start with a picture that's at least 851 pixels broad. Enlarging a reduced resolution photo can make it look unclear or pixelated.

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

Facebook Account Picture Size

The Facebook Profile Photo is presented on your Fan Page at 160px square, however need to be published at the very least 180px square. You can additionally publish a bigger picture, ideally in a several of 180, such as 360, 540, or 720, and Facebook will resize it for you. This may offer you better clarity, and will certainly offer you a bigger image in your Photo Cd!

Facebook Follower Web Page App Images/ Thumbnails

The Application Images, Tab Images, or Thumbnails that used to show up under your Cover Picture have actually moved to the left column. Just 3 show on the page, however when the arrowhead is clicked, every application thumbnail can be seen. It's a good concept to personalize them.

The Facebook application thumbnails are still 111px wide by 74px high. Maintain them basic-- perhaps just kind that expresses a call-to-action.

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

Facebook Follower Web Page Apps

Your Follower Web page application can be a solitary image (example right here). The size of the tab is 810px, and also the optimum height for a full-tab picture is 1200px. This is the only Facebook photo that I have actually found to have a documents size restriction, as well as it's 400kb. Choose the ideal compression when saving your jpeg, It will not submit if larger than 400kb.

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

Facebook Wall Image Dimension

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

Height can differ-- horizontal and high photos will certainly work. I utilized to recommend a high proportion of 4:5, but now these will certainly be lowered to 504 pixels high with gray bars on the sides (see sample).

Horizontal pictures will certainly load the 504 pixel width, however won't have the impact of square. Square looks finest on the wall.

Facebook Picture Audience Photo Size

Images you've published will certainly appear in the Photo Customer, or lightbox, at the maximum resolution possible, depending on the size you uploaded them and also the viewer's display gadget. The optimum Facebook image size 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 complete dimension you've submitted, at least as much as 2048 px.

For optimum display, Facebook recommends that you resize your pictures before publishing to among these sizes they support:

• 720 px


• 960 px


• 2048 px

If you upload 2048 px photos, make certain to choose the High Quality option.

CAUTION: Photos you submit to Facebook can be downloaded and install by any individual you've permitted to see them in your authorizations (and Fan Web page messages are always public). Any type of photos may be downloaded as well as reused, although that would certainly be copyright violation (unless you allow). How to Report Claims of Intellectual Property Infringement.

You have actually also allowed Facebook to distribute your images according to their Regards to Service:

For material that is covered by copyright legal rights, like pictures and videos (IP web content), you especially offer us the adhering to permission, based on your personal privacy as well as application settings: you give us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to make use of any IP web content that you publish on or about Facebook (IP Certificate). This IP Certificate ends when you delete your IP web content or your account unless your web content has been shared with others, and also they have actually not removed it.

I suggest you NOT post your expert pictures at high resolution unless you have a particular factor to do so (for instance, you want fans to download pictures of an event). I additionally suggest you watermark your photos.

Facebook Landmark or Highlighted Article Photo Size

Turning Points and also Highlighted Blog posts made use of to cover both columns of your Timeline. Since Fan Pages have just one column for articles (since mid-June 2014), there are no double-wide pictures.

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