Social Media Image Sizes

Here are the guidelines for images on many of the social media accounts you might be using.

Since these images are often cropped or covered with page elements, put the important components of your design in the center of the image, and double-check that key parts of the image aren’t covered up when used.

Facebook’s cover photo should be 851px (width) by 315px (height). Your profile picture needs to be at least 180 by 180 pixels. Posted images 1200 by 630.

Twitter recommends a cover photo size is 1500px by 500px. This size works but you’ll need to do some adjustments to make it look appropriate. A better dimension would be 1600px (width) by 421px (height). Profile picture should be at least 400 X 400 pixels. Posted images 1024px by 512px.

Google Plus cover photo size is 2120px (width) by 1192px (height). Your profile image should be 250 by 250 pixels. If those header dimensions don’t work for you, try 1080 (width) by 607 (height) pixels. Posted images 497px by 373px to 2048px by 2048px.

LinkedIn’s cover photo is 974 wide by 300 high pixels and the maximum file size is 2MB. A story photo is 698px by 400px. As with the Twitter header, it is very important to save your banner in highest quality because your banner will lose some of it’s quality once uploaded. Profile image should be 400px by 400px. Posted images 350px by 250px.

YouTube’s cover art size is 2560px (height) by 1440px (width) on desk top (display varies by device). Profile image (or channel icon) should be 800px by 800px.

Instagram profile pic should be 110px by 110px. Posted images 1080px by 1080px.

Pinterest profile pic should be 165px by 165px. Your board cover image should be 217px by 147px. Posted images 735px by unlimited (for expanded pin).

For more info, see:

Facebook help center
Instagram images
LinkedIn image dimensions
Pinterest boards about social media image sizes

Create Your Image

Many people use canva - my preference is pixlr, both are free.

https://www.canva.com/

https://pixlr.com/editor/

Click create new image

Give the image a name, in this case I used FB cover

Enter the dimensions in the width and height boxes

select transparent

click OK

in the top menu, click on layer

then open image as layer

you can add an image from your PC and then use the move tool to place it where on the canvas you want it.

You can follow the same steps to add a new layer (image).

I made a video on creating custom images using pixlr, you can view that here:

https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/create-cu...

Once you are satisfied, you will save the image to your pc as shown in the video.

If you leave Pixlr open until you've added the image to your social media account, you can come back and make adjustments. Twitter especially can be tricky.

Hope you've had a fantastic weekend. :)