LinkedIn photo size: exact dimensions for every image in 2026

Your LinkedIn profile photo should be sized following recommended dimensions for best display, your personal banner should maintain a wide rectangular format to fit profile layouts, and a standard feed image should follow the common aspect ratio for link previews. Upload as JPG or PNG, keep files under 8MB, and remember your profile photo displays inside a circle, so the framing you see when uploading isn’t always the framing your connections see.

Here’s what to check before you hit upload:

• Profile photo: 400 × 400 px minimum, square, displays as a circle
• Personal banner: 1584 × 396 px (a 4:1 ratio)
• Feed post (landscape/link preview): 1200 × 627 px
• File rules: JPG or PNG, generally under 8MB, sRGB colour profile

LinkedIn photo size reference table for 2026

Bookmark this. Every dimension below reflects LinkedIn’s current published guidance, cross-checked against practical testing from Hootsuite and Canva.

Image type	Recommended upload (px)	Aspect ratio	Rendered/display size	Max file size
Profile photo	400 × 400	1:1	Circular crop	~8MB, JPG/PNG
Personal banner	1584 × 396 (or 3168 × 792 for retina)	4:1	1584 × 396	~8MB, JPG/PNG
Company banner	4200 × 700 (upload)	6:1	≈1128 × 191	4MB per LinkedIn’s Page specifications
Company logo	300 × 300	1:1	Circular/square depending on placement	4MB, JPG/PNG
Post, landscape/link preview	1200 × 627	1.91:1	Varies by feed device	~8MB typical
Post, square	1200 × 1200	1:1	Cropped in narrow feeds	~8MB typical
Post, portrait	1080 × 1350	4:5	Full height on mobile	~8MB typical
Carousel card	1080 × 1080 or 1080 × 1350	1:1 or 4:5	Swipeable, consistent per deck	~8MB per card

Some guides quote 1200 × 628 for ad units rather than 1200 × 627 for organic link previews. The one-pixel gap rarely matters visually, but when in doubt, LinkedIn’s own Page specifications take precedence over any third-party cheat sheet.

What size should your personal profile photo and banner be?

Your profile photo needs a minimum of 400 × 400 pixels, though there’s no harm going larger. LinkedIn accepts JPG, PNG and GIF (in limited contexts), and the file typically needs to sit under 8MB.

Here’s the part most people miss: your photo displays as a circle, not the square you upload. That circular crop chews into the corners of your frame, which is exactly where a lot of headshots put someone’s shoulder or a chunk of background. Practitioner guidance consistently recommends the face fill roughly 60 to 70% of the frame, leaving enough margin that the crop doesn’t clip your chin or hairline.

For the banner, the target is 1584 × 396 pixels, a 4:1 ratio. If you want it razor-sharp on retina screens (most modern phones and laptops), upload at double that size, around 3168 × 792 pixels, and let LinkedIn scale it down rather than up.

1. Crop your source image to exactly 1584 × 396 px (or 2× for retina).
2. Keep any text or logo inside the middle 60% of the banner, since mobile crops the edges differently than desktop.
3. Export in sRGB colour space. Use PNG if your banner has text or sharp graphic edges, JPEG at 80 to 90% quality if it’s a photograph.
4. Preview the upload before publishing. LinkedIn’s crop tool shows you what connections will actually see.

Pro Tip: If your headshot and banner were shot separately, pull two or three colours from your photo (skin tone, clothing, background) and echo them faintly in the banner. It stops the two images looking like they belong to different people.

Our guide to business headshot formats covers how different aspect ratios distort a face once they’re cropped down for a thumbnail, which is worth a look before you shoot.

What image sizes does a LinkedIn company page need?

Company pages have their own rulebook, and the gap between what you upload and what displays trips up a lot of admins.

• Company banner: upload at 4200 × 700 px, but it renders at roughly 1128 × 191 px on most screens, so fine detail gets lost fast.
• Company logo: 300 × 300 px recommended, JPG or PNG.
• Life tab hero image: follows the same banner-style ratio, typically sized to match your main banner.
• Company photos and gallery images: LinkedIn’s Page specifications cap most Page image uploads at 4MB, tighter than the profile photo limit.

Only Page admins with the right permission level can update these assets, and LinkedIn’s Images API documentation notes the same permission structure applies when images are uploaded programmatically rather than through the standard interface.

What size should you make LinkedIn feed images?

Feed and link-preview images behave differently depending on which format you choose, and picking the wrong one means an awkward crop on someone’s phone.

• Landscape/link preview: 1200 × 627 px (1.91:1) is the safest all-round choice, especially when sharing an article link.
• Square: 1200 × 1200 px (or 1080 × 1080 px) works well for single images that need to look the same on desktop and mobile.
• Portrait: 1080 × 1350 px takes up more vertical space on mobile feeds, useful when you want a scroll-stopping image.
• Carousel cards: 1080 × 1080 or 1080 × 1350 px, kept consistent across every card in the deck. SocialPilot’s post-size reference notes sponsored carousel content sometimes carries tighter file-size caps than organic posts, so check before boosting.

If you’re unsure which shape to pick, landscape is the safer default for link shares, square for standalone photos, and portrait when you want maximum mobile real estate.

Which file formats and file sizes does LinkedIn accept?

• Formats: JPG and PNG across nearly all upload types; GIF works in select contexts, per LinkedIn’s Images API notes.
• Pixel-count ceiling: LinkedIn supports images under roughly 36 million total pixels, far beyond what any standard photo will hit.
• Colour profile: always export in sRGB. Wide-gamut profiles shift colour unpredictably once LinkedIn recompresses.
• Common mistake: over-compressing before upload, then LinkedIn compresses again, leaving a soft, blocky final image. Start from your highest-resolution original.
• Common mistake: placing key banner text near the edges, where mobile cropping cuts it off. Keep it centred.

How should you frame and crop your headshot for LinkedIn?

Composition decisions made before the shutter clicks matter more than any resize you do afterwards.

1. Fill the frame. Aim for your face to occupy 60 to 70% of the shot, leaving just enough headroom that the circle crop doesn’t slice your forehead or chin.
2. Pick a low-noise, high-contrast background. Busy backgrounds shrink to distracting blur at thumbnail size, and thumbnail size is how most people will actually see you.
3. Coordinate your banner and photo. Pull two or three colours from your outfit or background into the banner design, and avoid putting a second competing focal point (a logo, a busy pattern) directly behind where your face crop will sit.
4. Run a final check: view your upload at actual thumbnail size, on both a phone and a desktop browser, before publishing.

Pro Tip: Take your finished crop and shrink it to 60 pixels wide on your screen, roughly the size it appears next to a comment. If your face is still recognisable at that size, the crop works.

For a full pre-shoot checklist, our LinkedIn headshot best practices guide walks through lighting and wardrobe choices that hold up at any crop size, and JobAlign’s profile optimisation steps pair well with correct sizing if you’re overhauling the whole profile at once.

How do you quickly fix a badly sized LinkedIn image?

A simple workflow avoids most problems: crop to the recommended pixel size first, export in sRGB, preview the thumbnail, then upload banners at 2× where retina sharpness matters.

• Desktop editors (Photoshop, Affinity Photo, GIMP) give the most control over exact pixel dimensions and colour profile.
• Browser-based resizers and template tools (Canva included) are faster for one-off jobs and come with LinkedIn-specific templates pre-sized.
• Troubleshooting a soft image: you likely started from a low-resolution source. Re-export from the original file at full resolution.
• Troubleshooting an odd crop: your upload wasn’t the recommended aspect ratio. Recrop to 1:1 for profile photos or 4:1 for banners before uploading.
• Troubleshooting a colour shift: check you exported in sRGB, not Adobe RGB or a wide-gamut profile.

Why precision in LinkedIn photo sizing actually matters

We’ve watched clients swap a slightly-off, self-cropped photo for a correctly sized, well-lit headshot and see a genuine uptick in profile views within weeks. It’s not magic. It’s just that a face-filled, sharp thumbnail reads as more credible in half a second of scrolling than a distant, oddly cropped one does.

Getting the technical side right, correct pixels, sRGB, a sensible crop, takes minutes once you know the numbers. The harder part is the photograph itself. Before you publish anything, preview it on your own phone and a colleague’s laptop. They rarely render identically.

— Emmet

Get your LinkedIn photos shot right the first time

Sizing your own photo correctly solves half the problem. The other half, lighting, framing, and a background that survives a circle crop, is harder to fix in an editing app after the fact. Lemonsharkstudio shoots headshots and banner-ready portraits in-studio or on location around West London, with directed posing that accounts for exactly how LinkedIn crops a face, so you’re not guessing at margins afterwards. Sessions include professional retouching and a same-day turnaround on selects, whether you need a single corporate headshot or a full team refresh. If your current photo fails the thumbnail test above, book a headshot session or browse studio packages to see what a properly framed, correctly sized profile photo actually looks like next to yours.

Sources

• Social media image sizes guide
• LinkedIn sizes – Canva

FAQ

What is the best image size for LinkedIn?

For a profile photo, 400 × 400 pixels; for a personal banner, 1584 × 396 pixels; for a feed post or link preview, 1200 × 627 pixels.

How do I get my picture to fit on LinkedIn without an awkward crop?

Upload a square image (1:1) for your profile photo and keep your face filling 60 to 70% of the frame, since LinkedIn displays it inside a circle rather than the full square you upload.

What is the best LinkedIn image size in 2026?

The core sizes haven’t shifted: 400 × 400 px for profile photos and 1584 × 396 px for banners remain current, though uploading banners at 2× (3168 × 792 px) is increasingly recommended for sharper display on retina screens.

Can you post a 1920 × 1080 image on LinkedIn?

Yes, LinkedIn accepts 1920 × 1080 as a feed image, though it will be cropped or letterboxed to fit standard post ratios like 1.91:1 or 1:1 depending on how it displays in the feed.

Should you always upload images at retina (2×) resolution?

For banners, yes, where possible, since Hootsuite’s testing shows starting with more pixels than the display size preserves sharpness after LinkedIn’s automatic recompression.

Recommended

• The 2026 LinkedIn Audit: Why Your Profile Photo is Your Resume – LemonSharkStudio
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