Size Facebook Profile Picture

Need the best Facebook picture sizes?

Here are all the information you need to size your images and graphics to look their best on your Facebook Follower Page. Includes Cover Image, Profile Photo, and also Wall Photos.

Facebook Cover Picture Dimensions

Starting at the top, your Cover Picture will certainly be presented at 851 pixels (px) by 315px. You have the chance to change the cropping, but can not resize the image that you post or select from your Follower Web page cds.

To guarantee you'll such as the outcomes, size in an image editor before posting. Beginning with a photo that's at the very least 851 pixels wide. Increasing the size of a reduced resolution image can make it look unclear or pixelated.

NOTE: Your Web page Call, category, and buttons have actually moved inside the Cover Image as of mid-June 2014. Grab my theme at the web link below so they won't block an integral part of your Cover layout.

Facebook Account Image Dimension

The Facebook Account Picture is presented on your Fan Page at 160px square, but need to be submitted at least 180px square. You can additionally upload a larger photo, preferably in a several of 180, such as 360, 540, or 720, and Facebook will resize it for you. This might offer you far better clearness, as well as will absolutely offer you a bigger picture in your Photo Album!

Facebook Follower Page Application Images/ Thumbnails

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

The Facebook application thumbnails are still 111px large by 74px high. Keep them easy-- maybe simply type that expresses a call-to-action.

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

Facebook Follower Page Apps

Your Follower Page app can be a solitary image (sample right here). The size of the tab is 810px, and also the optimum elevation for a full-tab picture is 1200px. This is the only Facebook photo that I have actually located to have a documents dimension constraint, as well as it's 400kb. Select the suitable compression when conserving your jpeg, It will not post if larger than 400kb.

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

Facebook Wall Photo Size

Pictures shared on your wall surface are shown at 504 pixels wide and up to 504 pixels high. When sizing your graphics and pictures, make them a minimum of 504 pixels. Facebook is recommending 1200 pixels.

Height can vary-- horizontal as well as high photos will work. I made use of to recommend a high proportion of 4:5, and now these will certainly be minimized to 504 pixels tall with gray bars on the sides (see example).

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

Facebook Image Viewer Image Dimension

Pictures you've posted will certainly show up in the Image Viewer, or lightbox, at the maximum resolution possible, depending on the size you submitted them as well as the viewer's screen gadget. The optimum Facebook picture dimension for upload and also download is 2048 px square. If you post a bigger photo, Facebook will reduce it so the lengthiest side is 2048 px. Keep in mind that photos can be downloaded and install at the complete dimension you've published, at least as much as 2048 px.

For optimum display screen, Facebook advises that you resize your images prior to publishing to one of these widths they sustain:

• 720 px


• 960 px


• 2048 px

If you post 2048 px photos, make certain to pick the Premium quality choice.

WARNING: Photos you submit to Facebook can be downloaded and install by any person you have actually allowed to watch them in your permissions (and Fan Page posts are constantly public). Any kind of images might be downloaded and install as well as reused, despite the fact that that would certainly be copyright infringement (unless you permit). How to Report Insurance Claims of Copyright Violation.

You have actually also permitted Facebook to disperse your images according to their Terms of Solution:

For material that is covered by copyright legal rights, like photos as well as video clips (IP material), you specifically offer us the following approval, subject to your personal privacy and also application setups: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, globally certificate to utilize any type of IP material that you publish on or about Facebook (IP Certificate). This IP License finishes when you remove your IP web content or your account unless your material has been shown others, and also they have not deleted it.

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

Facebook Milestone or Highlighted Blog Post Photo Size

Milestones as well as Highlighted Blog posts used to cover both columns of your Timeline. Since Follower Pages have just one column for messages (as of mid-June 2014), there are no double-wide pictures.

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