LinkedIn photo size cheat sheet: 800x800 profile, 1584x396 banner

Use a square photo at a practical size around 800×800 pixels for your LinkedIn profile picture, a banner sized to 1584×396 pixels, and a square post image at about 1080×1080 pixels. Save everything as PNG or high-quality JPEG, keeping files under 8MB for profile assets and around 5MB for posts and ads.

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LinkedIn photo size quick reference table

Every image slot on LinkedIn has its own pixel dimensions, aspect ratio and file limit, and getting even one wrong means blurry thumbnails or an awkward crop that clips someone’s shoulder out of a banner. This table is the one to bookmark.

These figures pull from LinkedIn’s own Help specifications alongside Hootsuite’s 2026 size guide, which both confirm accepted formats as PNG or JPEG across the board.

Getting your LinkedIn profile picture size right

LinkedIn recommends a minimum of 400×400px for your profile photo, but 800×800px is the sweet spot most sizing guides now settle on. Anything smaller starts to look soft the moment someone views your profile on a high-resolution laptop screen or expands it slightly on mobile. Anything much larger just adds file weight without adding sharpness, since LinkedIn compresses it down anyway.

The trickier part is the crop. LinkedIn masks every profile photo into a circle, which means the corners of your original square image get cut away completely. If your face sits too close to the edge of the frame, you risk losing part of your chin, forehead or ear in the mask. Leave generous breathing room around the head, and keep the subject centred both horizontally and vertically.

A short export checklist keeps this simple:

Pro Tip: Zoom your preview to thumbnail size, roughly the size of a search result avatar, before you commit to a crop. Details that look fine full-screen, like a tight hairline or a cut-off collar, often disappear or look wrong once the image shrinks down to how most people will actually see it in the feed.

If you’d rather skip the guesswork entirely, our piece on what your headshot is really communicating covers the expression and composition choices that make a circular crop work in your favour rather than against it.

Cover and banner images: designing around the safe area

Your personal LinkedIn banner should measure 1584×396px, a 4:1 ratio that spans the full width of your profile. Company Pages use a different cover size, 1128×191px, so don’t reuse one asset across both without resizing first.

The catch with any banner is the safe area. Your profile photo overlays the bottom left corner of the banner on desktop, and that same region shifts position on mobile. Anything important placed behind where the photo sits, or right at the edges where different screen widths crop the image, risks disappearing entirely.

Keep this in mind when you design one:

Which LinkedIn post image size actually gets seen

Landscape images at 1200×627px, a 1.91:1 ratio, remain the standard choice when you’re sharing a link and want LinkedIn to generate a clean preview card. Square images at 1080×1080px are the most dependable all-rounder: they render consistently across desktop and mobile without cropping surprises, which is why Hootsuite calls square the gold standard for reusable templates.

Portrait images at 1080×1350px, a 4:5 ratio, take up noticeably more vertical space in the mobile feed. That’s a deliberate trade. On a phone screen, where most LinkedIn browsing happens, a taller image occupies more of the visible viewport before someone scrolls past it.

According to
, landscape at 1.91:1 is the format link previews are built around, while square and portrait sizes are the ones worth using when you’re posting a standalone image with no link attached.

A few practical notes for post images:

Company Page and ad image specifications

Company Pages run on their own set of dimensions, separate from personal profiles. A company logo should be 400×400px, and the cover image sits at 1128×191px, both accepted as PNG or JPEG under LinkedIn’s Page specifications. Life tab modules and custom sections typically run at 1128×376px, and staying consistent across these assets keeps a Page looking deliberate rather than assembled from mismatched crops.

Ads follow slightly different rules again. Single-image ad creatives generally use 1200×628px in landscape or 1200×1200px square, and MeetEdgar’s 2026 guide notes a common 5MB ceiling on file size for single-image placements. Carousel and video ad formats carry their own separate constraints on length and file weight, so check the specific ad type before exporting.

Key specs to hold onto:

A simple resize and export workflow you can use today

Getting from a raw photo to a correctly sized LinkedIn asset is a short, repeatable process:

For quick jobs, online resizers and free desktop editors handle most of this fine. For headshots specifically, where a soft crop or a slightly compressed face is far more noticeable than on a product photo, it’s worth involving someone who does this professionally.

Pro Tip: Never upscale a small original to hit a larger target size. Stretching a 300×300px photo up to 800×800px doesn’t add detail, it just makes the existing pixels bigger and softer, and it shows immediately at thumbnail size.

Common mistakes worth avoiding: relying on LinkedIn’s automatic crop instead of framing the shot yourself, mixing carousel slide sizes, and exporting at such high resolution that the file breaches the size limit and gets rejected on upload.

How Dock Street Studio prepares headshots for LinkedIn

Every headshot session at Dock Street Studio starts with a short pre-shoot conversation about how the image will actually be used, whether that’s a LinkedIn profile, a casting portfolio or a company directory. That framing decision happens before a single frame is captured, not after.

On set, we shoot with generous headroom around the face specifically so the circular crop has room to work with, rather than clipping a chin or ear at the mask edge. Every session includes retouching with a 48-hour turnaround, and files are delivered pre-sized and export-ready for LinkedIn’s exact specifications, so there’s no guesswork left for the client once the images land in their inbox.

What most sizing guides get wrong

Most advice on LinkedIn image dimensions treats every slot as equally important, which misses the point entirely. Get the profile photo and one strong post format right, and the rest is secondary maintenance.

The banner is the one asset people neglect most, and it’s also the one doing the least work. Recruiters and prospects glance at it for a second before their eyes move straight to your face and headline. Spend your effort on the profile photo crop instead, since that’s the image appearing next to your name in every comment, connection request and search result you’ll ever generate.

The other overlooked issue is treating pixel dimensions as separate from the photograph itself. A technically perfect 800×800px export of a poorly lit, badly framed photo is still a poorly lit, badly framed photo. Correct sizing prevents the platform from mangling a good image. It cannot rescue a weak one. Prioritise getting a genuinely well-composed photograph first, then apply the dimensions in this guide to protect it, not the other way round.

Book a headshot that’s already sized right

Dock Street Studio removes the sizing guesswork entirely: every headshot session includes retouched files exported and pre-sized to LinkedIn’s exact specifications, so you’re never left cropping a circular mask around a chin at 11pm. Sessions start from £450, and turnaround on retouched images is 48 hours.

If you’re in Leeds or West Yorkshire and want a headshot that’s framed correctly from the first frame rather than fixed in post, book directly through our commercial photographer page and check current availability. You can also browse recent results on our LinkedIn headshot sessions page before you book.

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