Instantly adjust your images to meet LinkedIn's official dimensions for posts, headers, and profiles.
LinkedIn doesn't resize your images the way you'd expect. It applies specific crop ratios to each image type, and those ratios often don't match what your camera or phone produces.
A standard smartphone photo is shot at 4:3 or 16:9. LinkedIn's profile photo crop is a 1:1 circle. Its personal banner demands a 4:1 ratio — wider than most panoramic shots. When you upload without adjusting first, LinkedIn picks a center-weighted crop that guesses at the important part of your image. It guesses wrong more often than it guesses right.
The compression adds another layer. LinkedIn applies its own compression to every uploaded image. If your file is 5MB at 4000×3000 pixels and you're using it as a profile photo, LinkedIn will resize it to roughly 400×400, compress it, and discard detail you can't get back. Starting with a properly sized image means LinkedIn's compression has less work to do — and your photo retains more quality in the process.
LinkedIn uses different dimensions for different image placements across the platform. Here's a reference that covers what you need — without the fluff:
Profile photo: 400 × 400 pixels. Displayed as a circle with a white border. Your face should be centered in the square — the corners get cropped out by the circle shape. Keep key elements (eyes, forehead, chin) within the inner 70% of the image.
Personal profile banner: 1584 × 396 pixels. This wide strip sits behind your profile photo. On mobile, the left and right edges crop differently than on desktop — keep critical content in the center 1,000 pixels horizontally.
Company page logo: 300 × 300 pixels. Displays as a square on desktop but renders at different sizes depending on context (search results, posts, sidebar). A clean, high-contrast logo works best at this size.
Company cover image: 1128 × 191 pixels. Even wider than the personal banner. Same mobile-cropping caveat applies — center your design elements.
Feed post image: 1200 × 627 pixels for landscape, 1080 × 1080 for square. LinkedIn's feed truncates tall images, so going vertical is risky. Landscape images at the 1.91:1 ratio get the most visible real estate in the scroll.
Link preview image: 1200 × 627 pixels. When you share a URL, LinkedIn pulls an Open Graph image. If you control the page, set your OG image to this exact size.
If you also manage content on other platforms, each one has its own dimension requirements. You can resize images for Twitter with the same workflow, or generate all your social sizes at once with a social media image pack.
This is the single most common frustration people have with LinkedIn images, and it deserves its own explanation.
When you upload a profile photo, LinkedIn displays it inside a circle mask. Most people upload a rectangular photo and assume the circle will frame their face naturally. It won't — unless you've positioned your face correctly within the square before uploading.
The circle's center is the center of your square image. The circle's radius crops away roughly the outer 15% on every side. If your head is near the top of the frame — as it often is in a portrait taken from the waist up — the circle cuts into your forehead. If you're off-center to one side, one shoulder disappears while the other remains awkwardly visible.
The practical fix: before uploading, crop your photo to a 1:1 square where your face occupies roughly the center-to-upper-third of the frame. Leave more breathing room above your head than feels natural. Your chin should sit around the vertical center or slightly below. This looks odd when you view the square version, but once LinkedIn applies the circle mask, the composition looks balanced and professional.
A properly prepared 400×400 pixel image with the face positioned for circle display will look crisp across every context — desktop feeds, mobile profiles, search results, and the small circular thumbnails that appear next to your comments and posts.
Your profile photo creates first impressions, but post images determine whether anyone engages with your content. LinkedIn's feed gives you a fixed display width, and your image's height determines how much vertical space you command.
Landscape images (1200 × 627) take up the most screen space relative to their aspect ratio. They're fully visible without the user needing to expand anything. This makes them the default for most professional content — infographics, data visualizations, event announcements, and branded graphics.
Square images (1080 × 1080) also display well, though they command slightly less horizontal prominence. They suit quote cards, headshot-based content, and carousel cover images.
Portrait or tall images get truncated. LinkedIn collapses anything taller than roughly 4:3 and forces users to tap "see more" to view the full image. This kills engagement rates. If you have a vertical design, either rework it to landscape or accept the fold penalty.
One detail most people miss: LinkedIn's feed preview compresses images differently on mobile versus desktop. An image that looks sharp on a 27-inch monitor may appear slightly soft on a phone screen. Pre-sharpening your image at the target dimensions can compensate, but over-sharpening creates visible halos around text and edges — test on both screen sizes before finalizing.
The profile banner is the widest, most visible piece of visual real estate on your LinkedIn page — and also the most frequently botched. The mistakes fall into a few predictable categories.
Using a stock photo at the wrong size. Someone picks an abstract background at 1920×1080 (a standard wallpaper resolution) and uploads it. LinkedIn stretches or crops it to 1584×396, a ratio that's four times wider than it is tall. The result is a sliver of the original image that shows nothing meaningful. Resize and crop intentionally before uploading.
Placing text or logos in the corners. On desktop, the bottom-left corner of your banner is partially covered by your profile photo circle and name overlay. On mobile, both the left and right edges get cropped significantly. If your banner includes a tagline, company name, or call to action, position it in the horizontal center — roughly the middle 60% of the width.
Ignoring the safe zone. The area where your profile photo overlaps the banner varies between desktop and mobile views. There's no universal safe zone, but keeping the most important visual content in the center third of the banner minimizes the chance of it being covered on any device.
A banner resized to exactly 1584 × 396 pixels uploads without LinkedIn needing to make any adjustments. That alone eliminates most quality loss and awkward cropping. Keep the file under 8MB — a JPG at 85% quality typically lands around 200-400KB, which is more than sufficient.
Photoshop and Lightroom give you precise control, but most people resizing for LinkedIn don't need that level of complexity. They need to take a 3000×4000 pixel photo and turn it into a 400×400 profile picture that doesn't look like it was processed through a toaster.
The key quality factors are the resampling algorithm and output compression. Cheap resize tools use nearest-neighbor resampling, which produces blocky, jagged results when scaling down significantly. Better tools use bicubic or Lanczos resampling, which preserve smooth gradients and sharp edges even at aggressive downscales.
For LinkedIn specifically, output compression matters more than most people realize. LinkedIn applies its own compression on top of whatever you upload. If you upload a 2MB PNG, LinkedIn may internally convert it to a compressed JPG, adding artifacts on top of the original file's data. Uploading a pre-compressed JPG at the correct dimensions gives you more predictable results because LinkedIn's re-compression is gentler when the input is already optimized for web display.
Pixes.app handles the resampling and optimization automatically — upload your photo, select the LinkedIn format you need, and download a file that's already dimensioned and compressed for the platform. The preview shows you exactly what the crop will look like, so you can adjust the focus area before committing. If you also need to resize images for other purposes — email attachments, website uploads, documents — the same tool handles those without any format-specific configuration.