What Size is A Profile Picture On Facebook

Required the best Facebook picture dimensions?

Below are all the information you need to size your images as well as graphics to look their finest on your Facebook Follower Web Page. Includes Cover Image, Account Picture, as well as Wall Surface Photos.

Facebook Cover Picture Dimensions

Beginning at the top, your Cover Image will certainly be displayed at 851 pixels (px) by 315px. You have the chance to adjust the chopping, yet can not resize the picture that you submit or pick from your Follower Web page cds.

To guarantee you'll like the outcomes, dimension in an image editor before posting. Beginning with an image that goes to least 851 pixels broad. Enlarging a reduced resolution picture can make it look fuzzy or pixelated.

NOTE: Your Page Name, category, and also buttons have moved inside the Cover Photo as of mid-June 2014. Grab my theme at the link listed below so they will not obstruct an integral part of your Cover style.

Facebook Profile Image Dimension

The Facebook Account Picture is presented on your Fan Web page at 160px square, yet must be uploaded a minimum of 180px square. You can additionally publish a larger picture, ideally in a multiple of 180, such as 360, 540, or 720, and also Facebook will certainly resize it for you. This may provide you far better clearness, and also will absolutely give you a bigger photo in your Picture Album!

Facebook Fan Page Application Images/ Thumbnails

The Application Photos, Tab Images, or Thumbnails that utilized to appear under your Cover Photo have actually transferred to the left column. Just 3 show on the page, however when the arrowhead is clicked, every app thumbnail can be seen. It's a good suggestion to tailor them.

The Facebook application thumbnails are still 111px broad by 74px high. Maintain them straightforward-- maybe simply type that expresses a call-to-action.

Facebook Fan 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 Fan Web page application can be a solitary picture (sample below). The size of the tab is 810px, as well as the optimum height for a full-tab photo is 1200px. This is the only Facebook picture that I have actually located to have a file size limitation, and it's 400kb. Pick the proper compression when saving your jpeg, It will not post if larger than 400kb.

For info on how to include customized tabs to your Follower Page, read: Facebook Timeline Fan Web Page Tabs: Include Your Web Site to FB

Facebook Wall Surface Photo Dimension

Photos shared on your wall surface are displayed at 504 pixels wide as well as up to 504 pixels high. When sizing your graphics and also photos, make them at least 504 pixels. Facebook is suggesting 1200 pixels.

Height can differ-- horizontal and high photos will function. I utilized to suggest a tall percentage of 4:5, and now these will certainly be reduced to 504 pixels tall with grey bars on the sides (see example).

Horizontal photos will load the 504 pixel size, however won't have the impact of square. Square looks best on the wall.

Facebook Photo Audience Image Size

Images you've posted will appear in the Photo Audience, or lightbox, at the maximum resolution possible, depending on the dimension you posted them as well as the audience's display device. The optimum Facebook image size for upload as well as download is 2048 px square. If you publish a larger picture, Facebook will lower it so the lengthiest side is 2048 px. Bear in mind that pictures can be downloaded at the complete size you've uploaded, at the very least up to 2048 px.

For ideal display screen, Facebook advises that you resize your pictures before submitting to one of these sizes they sustain:

• 720 px


• 960 px


• 2048 px

If you upload 2048 px pictures, be sure to pick the Top quality choice.

CAUTION: Photos you submit to Facebook can be downloaded and install by anybody you have actually permitted to view them in your approvals (and Fan Page articles are constantly public). Any type of pictures could be downloaded and install and reused, although that would certainly be copyright violation (unless you permit). Exactly How to Report Claims of Copyright Violation.

You have actually additionally allowed Facebook to distribute your photos according to their Regards to Solution:

For content that is covered by copyright civil liberties, like pictures and also video clips (IP content), you particularly offer us the adhering to permission, based on your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, globally certificate to make use of any type of IP content that you publish on or in connection with Facebook (IP Permit). This IP Permit ends when you remove your IP content or your account unless your content has actually been shown to others, and they have not removed it.

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

Facebook Turning Point or Highlighted Post Picture Dimension

Milestones and also Highlighted Messages used to cover both columns of your Timeline. Since Fan Pages have only one column for blog posts (as of mid-June 2014), there are no double-wide images.

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