Facebook Profile Picture Dimensions | New 2019

Facebook Profile Picture Size



Need the very best Facebook photo sizes?

Below are all the details you require to size your images and also graphics to look their best on your Facebook Follower Web Page. Includes Cover Image, Account Photo, and Wall Surface Photos.

Facebook Cover Photo Capacities

Beginning at the top, your Cover Picture will certainly be presented at 851 pixels (px) by 315px. You have the opportunity to change the chopping, yet can not resize the photo that you post or choose from your Follower Page albums.

To guarantee you'll like the outcomes, size in a picture editor before uploading. Start with a picture that's at the very least 851 pixels large. Enlarging a reduced resolution picture can make it look fuzzy or pixelated.

NOTE: Your Web page Call, group, and also buttons have moved inside the Cover Image as of mid-June 2014. Get my design template at the web link below so they won't block a vital part of your Cover design.

Facebook Account Image Dimension

The Facebook Profile Picture is shown on your Follower Page at 160px square, however have to be published at least 180px square. You can likewise upload a larger photo, preferably in a multiple of 180, such as 360, 540, or 720, and also Facebook will resize it for you. This may provide you much better clearness, and also will definitely offer you a bigger photo in your Picture Album!

Facebook Follower Web Page Application Images/ Thumbnails

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

The Facebook app thumbnails are still 111px vast by 74px high. Keep them easy-- possibly just type that shares a call-to-action.

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

Facebook Fan Page Applications

Your Fan Page app can be a solitary photo (sample below). The size of the tab is 810px, and the optimum height for a full-tab image is 1200px. This is the only Facebook photo that I've discovered to have a file dimension restriction, and also it's 400kb. Choose the proper compression when conserving your jpeg, It will not submit if larger than 400kb.

For information on just how to include custom tabs to your Fan Page, reviewed: Facebook Timeline Follower Page Tabs: Add Your Internet Site to FB

Facebook Wall Surface Image Size

Pictures shared on your wall are shown at 504 pixels broad as well as up to 504 pixels high. When sizing your graphics as well as pictures, make them a minimum of 504 pixels. Facebook is advising 1200 pixels.

Elevation can vary-- horizontal as well as high pictures will certainly function. I made use of to suggest a tall proportion of 4:5, today these will be reduced to 504 pixels high with gray bars on the sides (see sample).

Horizontal pictures will fill the 504 pixel size, but will not have the effect of square. Square looks finest on the wall surface.

Facebook Photo Audience Image Size

Images you've posted will appear in the Photo Customer, or lightbox, at the optimum resolution feasible, depending upon the size you posted them and also the visitor's display screen tool. The optimum Facebook photo dimension for upload as well as download is 2048 px square. If you submit a larger picture, Facebook will certainly minimize it so the lengthiest side is 2048 px. Remember that pictures can be downloaded at the complete dimension you have actually uploaded, at least as much as 2048 px.

For optimum display screen, Facebook suggests that you resize your photos prior to publishing to among these sizes they support:

  • 720 px

  • 960 px

  • 2048 px


If you publish 2048 px pictures, be sure to select the High Quality choice.

CAUTION: Photos you upload to Facebook can be downloaded and install by any individual you have actually allowed to see them in your authorizations (and Fan Web page messages are constantly public). Any photos might be downloaded and recycled, although that would be copyright infringement (unless you give permission). How to Report Cases of Copyright Violation.

You've additionally enabled Facebook to distribute your photos according to their Regards to Solution:

For material that is covered by intellectual property legal rights, like images and video clips (IP content), you particularly give us the following permission, based on your personal privacy as well as application setups: you approve us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, around the world license to use any type of IP material that you upload on or about Facebook (IP Certificate). This IP Certificate finishes when you remove your IP content or your account unless your web content has been shown to others, and they have actually not deleted it.

I recommend you NOT post your specialist pictures at high resolution unless you have a certain reason to do so (for instance, you want fans to download photos of an event). I likewise recommend you watermark your photos.

Facebook Milestone or Highlighted Message Image Size

Milestones and also Highlighted Articles made use of to span both columns of your Timeline. Since Follower Pages have just one column for messages (since mid-June 2014), there are no double-wide images.