LinkedIn Photo Size: Profile & Post Dimensions

The short answer

Profile photo: a square of at least 400×400 pixels with your face centered and margins on every side, because it displays as a circle. Banner: a wide 1584×396 canvas with the message in the middle band. Post images: around 1200×627.

Resize with the Image Resizer to the exact pixels, crop the square before resizing so the composition survives, and upload a sharp file — LinkedIn recompresses everything, and only sharp originals stay sharp.

Resize for LinkedIn in four steps

First, pick the right source: the highest-resolution original you have, not a copy already shrunk by messaging apps. Resizing down preserves quality; enlarging a small file never restores it.

Second, crop to the target shape first — square for profiles, wide for banners — placing faces and text where the final crop keeps them. The profile circle eats corners, so centered faces with breathing room win.

Third, set the exact pixel dimensions in the Image Resizer with the aspect locked, and export. Fourth, view the result at the size LinkedIn will show it: if it reads clean small, it will read clean on the site.

Crop first, then resize

Cropping and resizing solve different problems: cropping chooses what appears, resizing chooses how many pixels carry it. Crop the story first — head and shoulders for profiles, headline area for banners — then resize the cropped result to the target dimensions.

Resizing before cropping wastes the pixel budget on regions you will discard, and cropping after resizing forces a second quality hit. One crop, one resize, one upload: that order keeps every pixel working.

Beat the recompression

LinkedIn re-encodes every upload to its own targets, which costs a little sharpness on fine detail like hair, fabric texture and small text. The defense is headroom: upload a clean file at full target resolution rather than a pre-shrunk one.

Mild pre-sharpening is unnecessary for most photos — a well-lit, in-focus original resized cleanly survives the platform pass. If a banner carries text, keep the lettering large: small type is the first casualty of recompression.

Device notes: phone photos and desktop headshots

On iPhone and Android, front cameras and portrait modes produce files far larger than LinkedIn needs — crop the square in the Photos app or straight in the resizer, then export at 800 pixels for a crisp result. HEIC originals on iPhone should become JPG first.

On Windows and Mac, headshots from a webcam or DSLR open directly in the browser tool — drag the file in, set the square crop with the face centered, and download. Check the final image on an actual phone screen before uploading, since most profile views happen there. Layouts change over time, so confirm dimensions in the upload dialog if a size ever looks off.