If you have ever uploaded a photo to your social media feed and found that the image quality isn’t as good as you’d like it to be, you’re not alone. Most sites that allow you to upload images will use their own set of parameters to resize and compress uploaded images to save file space and bandwidth.

This can be good in the sense that it offloads the work of you sizing and optimizing pictures for online viewing. It can also be bad for the very same reasons. The latter because these site server-based resize/optimization settings are often set up for maximum efficiency for the host system instead of outputting the best quality image.

If you’re happy with how your images are appearing when you post them, you might feel you can stop reading now and that’s OK. However , you might try using the resizing guide below to prep your images at the recommended sizes for the site or sites to which a person upload photos. It could be that they end up looking better.

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Optimal Image Sizes with regard to Popular Social Media Sites

Below is a list of image sizes commonly used by some popular social media sites. By resizing your images to the recommended pixel dimensions you can avoid, or at least minimize, the reduction in quality that often occurs when uploading images to these sites.

Keep in mind that the settings and parameters these sites use might change at any time. This is also true for the size recommendations themselves listed below. We will do our best to keep this page updated in the future so bookmark this page if you want to stay up to date on these settings.

Note : It is important to mention that your images may often not fit the exact proportions of the recommended sizes below. In those cases, I would recommend resizing based on the longer dimensions plus letting the shorter fall where it will.

Facebook Image Sizes

Facebook has a wide variety of image sizes that are employed on its site depending on the location and use. The below listings are the recommendations according to the Meta for Business Guidelines plus Facebook’s own Help Center .

• Feed Images : 1, 080 x 1, 350 pixels
• Page Profile Image : 170×170 (largest)
• Page Cover Photo : 851 x 315 (for fastest loading)
• Marketplace Images : one, 200 x 1, 200 pixels
• Stories : 1, 080 x 1, 920

Instagram Image Sizes

Images on Instagram are usually displayed at 1, 080 pixels at the widest with a maximum of 1, 350 pixels in height (it’s not surprising that this is the same as in Facebook’s News Feed). Personally, I make my images square simply by cropping them in the one: 1 ratio and letting the extra space be filled with black, white, or a color that works well with the image. This way no heads or feet are cut off when images are displayed in the “grid” in my profile. This info comes from Instagram’s Help and is also found in the Meta for Company Guidelines .

• Profile Images : 320 x 320 pixels
• Feed Pictures : 1, 080 x 1, 350 pixels

YouTube Picture Sizes

Although YouTube is obviously about video, there are many places where still images are used within the YouTube interface. The online help system provided the following information for the various ways still images are used. However , these were not all found together so I might not have found “every” use of still images.

• Profile Image : 800 x 800 pixels
• Video Thumbnail Size : 1, 280 x 720 pixels
• Channel Cover Image : 2, 560 x 1440 pixels
• Display Ads : 300 x 250 pixels
• Overlay Advertisements : 480 x 60 pixels
• Companion Banner Ads : 300 by 250 pixels

Twitter Image Sizes

Twitter has recommended image sizes for profile and header images in its help center but I was unable to find anything specific for feed images there. Some research, and experimenting for confirmation, showed that images that are “instream” are displayed at 600 x 335 pixels but can be clicked and viewed as large as 1, 200 by 675 pixels.

• Profile Images : 400 x 400 pixels
• Header Pictures : 1, 500 x 500 pixels
• In-Stream Images : 1, two hundred x 675 pixels

LinkedIn Image Sizes

I really appreciate LinkedIn’s support team for making it easy to find its set of recommended picture sizes. The following comes from the particular company’s online help .

• Logo Picture : 268 x 268 pixels
• Cover Image : 128 x 191pixels
• Main Image : 1, 128 x 376 pixels
• Custom Modules : 502 x 282 pixels
• Company Photos : 900 x 600 pixels

TikTok Picture Sizes

TikTok is all about video but profile images are a thing there so they do offer a recommendation.

• Profile Image : 200 x 200 -pixels

Pinterest Image Dimensions

There are quite a lot of different types of image dimensions and aspect ratios that will end up in various areas of Pinterest. Below is what I have found yet there might be others I missed. Much of this was trial and measure but the standard pins recommendation comes from Pinterest’s best practice info .

• User profile Image : 165 by 165 pixels
• Standard Pins : 1, 000 x 1, 500 pixels
• Square Pins : 1, 000 x 1, 000 pixels
• Long Pins : 1, 500 x 2, 100 -pixels
• Infographic Pins : 1, 000 x 3, 000 pixels
• Story Pins : 1, 080 x 1, 920 pixels

In addition to the list above, there are some social networking sites geared specifically at photographers and other visual creators that I wanted to drop here as well. Many of these sites offer lower compression and larger-sized images so you may find suggested pixel dimensions are higher than the sites listed above.

Behance Image Sizes

According to guidance from the Behance site “We display all images in 1400px wide in the Project View and up to 2800px in the Lightbox View which is triggered when you click on an image. ” So I would recommend sizing to 2, eight hundred pixels on the long side if your image is at least that large.

• Uploaded Images : 2, 800 -pixels on longest edge

Vero Image Sizes

This social media marketing network has been around since 2015 and while it may not be as familiar as Instagram or even YouTube it does offer high-quality image sharing. Images displayed on Vero can be up to 3, 000 pixels on the long side. Images that are larger will be scaled down to that size.

• Uploaded Images : 3, 1000 pixels on longest edge

Youpic Image Sizes

Youpic is another social media network that seems to have been flying under the mainstream radar. It’s geared specifically at professional/experienced photographers and has a feel of Instagram meets Twitter. Recommended image size is 2, 048 pixels on the long part.

• Uploaded Images : 2, 048 pixels on longest edge

Conclusion

The recommendations in this article are certainly subject to modify and may or may not fit into your workflow. For my own part, I typically dimension my images for social media posts to 2, 000 pixels on the long aspect and I’ve found this produces good-quality images regarding my use. However , if you are finding your image uploads are suffering from softness and/or compression artifacts, I would try the above settings and see if this improves things.

Bobbie