Resize an image for LinkedIn

LinkedIn wants seven different shapes, from a 400-pixel square to a banner nearly six times wider than it is tall. Pick the slot in the size list above and the editor makes your image exactly that size: a frame over the picture shows what a crop will keep and can be dragged where you want it, or the whole image can be fitted inside with a plain border.

LinkedIn image sizes, checked October 2026

Every figure here is from LinkedIn’s own help centre: sharing photos, profile photos, background photos, Page images, article covers and link previews. The links open the editor at that size.

Exports here are JPEG at quality 90, accepted in every slot. A 1920 × 1080 photo at that setting measured 527 KB in our tests, so none of the file limits above comes close to binding.

The Company Page cover changed

If you manage a Company Page, the cover is the size most guides get wrong. LinkedIn’s Page image specifications now give 1512 × 256 as both the minimum and the recommended size; older articles quote 1128 × 191, and some even 4200 × 700. An image made at an old size is scaled and cropped to fit the new slot, so text near its edges can be lost. Remake it at 1512 × 256.

Posts: anything from 3:1 to 4:5

An image post may be any shape between 3:1 wide and 4:5 tall. LinkedIn recommends a width of 1080 pixels. Wider than 3:1, and LinkedIn crops the sides off itself, from the centre. Within the range, shape is a choice about space: a 4:5 portrait fills the most of a phone screen as people scroll, a square is the safe middle, and a 1.91:1 landscape matches the link previews around it.

Posts with several photos show each at no more than 4:5, and can hold up to twenty images. As with any set, make them all the same size so the gallery lines up.

Banners from ordinary photos

The two banner slots are extreme shapes, and a normal photo has to lose most of itself to fill them. From a 3:2 landscape, a crop to the 4:1 profile background keeps 38% of the picture; to the 5.9:1 Page cover, only 25%. Two ways to cope:

• Crop a strip. Choose a photo with a horizontal subject — a skyline, a coastline, a desk from above — and drag the frame up or down to the band that carries it.
• Pad a logo or a narrow image. Switch to Fit the whole image, with padding and set the colour to your brand colour. A square logo becomes a centred mark on a solid strip, at exactly the right size.

Your profile photo is drawn over part of the background, in a different place on a phone than on a computer. Keep anything important away from the bottom edge, and look at the profile on both before you settle on a crop.

Questions about LinkedIn sizes

More image tools

Every one of these is the same editor, opened for a different job — and all of them run on your device.

• Instagram resizerPosts, stories and Reels at Instagram’s current shapes.
• YouTube thumbnail16:9 at YouTube’s current 3840 × 2160, cropped or padded.
• Resize an imageChange the pixel dimensions with Lanczos3, Catmull-Rom or Mitchell.
• Crop an imageTrim to what matters, freeform or to a fixed ratio.
• Remove EXIF dataStrip the GPS location, camera and serial number from a photo.

Or start from the full editor, which does all of it at once.