LinkedIn Photo Sizes and Specs 2026: The Complete Reference

For 2026, upload your LinkedIn profile photo at 400×400 px or larger (up to 7680×4320, under 8 MB, JPG or PNG) and your personal banner at 1584×396 px. Company Page logos are 400×400 px; Company Page banners upload best at 4200×700 px. Keep faces and text centered — mobile crops the edges.

Why LinkedIn image specs are worth getting right

LinkedIn resizes and re-crops every image you upload to fit a fixed grid, and it crops differently on desktop than on mobile. Get the dimensions wrong and your face lands half out of frame, your banner text disappears behind your profile photo, or your carefully designed cover turns into a blurry stretch of pixels.

None of that is about vanity. Your profile photo is the single most-viewed element on your page, and a sharp, correctly framed image reads as competence before anyone has read a word about you. The specs below are all current as of mid-2026, verified against LinkedIn's own upload guidance and the major spec trackers. Bookmark this page — dimensions do change, and we update it when they do.

One caveat before the numbers: uploading at the right size is necessary but not sufficient. A pixel-perfect photo of a bad crop is still a bad photo. If you also want help with the shot itself, our guides on LinkedIn profile picture tips and how to pose when you're not photogenic cover the parts that dimensions can't fix.

LinkedIn profile photo size

Upload your LinkedIn profile photo at a minimum of 400×400 pixels. LinkedIn accepts anything from that floor up to 7680×4320 pixels, in JPG or PNG format, with a maximum file size of 8 MB. For most people, a square image somewhere between 800×800 and 1600×1600 is the practical sweet spot: crisp on retina displays without a bloated file.

• Recommended dimensions: 400×400 px minimum; 800×800 to 1600×1600 px is ideal for sharpness.
• Maximum dimensions: 7680×4320 px.
• Aspect ratio: 1:1 (square). Anything non-square gets cropped.
• File formats: JPG or PNG.
• Maximum file size: 8 MB.

The critical detail: LinkedIn displays your profile photo inside a circular frame on both desktop and mobile, even though you upload a square file. The four corners of your square get masked off. That means anything you place in a corner — the edge of your shoulder, a logo, text — may simply not be visible. Compose so that your head and shoulders sit inside the circle that fits within your square, not out at the edges.

How big your photo actually appears

Although you upload at 400×400 or larger, LinkedIn renders the profile photo much smaller in the live layout — roughly 130–160 px across on a desktop profile header and even smaller in the feed and search results. Upload high-resolution so LinkedIn has room to downscale cleanly, but frame your face tight enough that it still reads at thumbnail size. A full-length or waist-up shot that looks fine at full size can become an unrecognizable speck in a comment thread.

LinkedIn banner (cover photo) size and safe zones

Your personal LinkedIn banner — the wide image behind your profile photo — should be 1584×396 pixels, a 4:1 aspect ratio, in JPG, PNG, or GIF, up to 8 MB. That is the one dimension to memorize. The complication isn't the size; it's that LinkedIn overlaps and crops the banner differently across devices, so parts of your design get hidden.

• Recommended dimensions: 1584×396 px.
• Aspect ratio: 4:1.
• File formats: JPG, PNG, or GIF (animated GIFs display as a static first frame for many viewers).
• Maximum file size: 8 MB.

Desktop vs. mobile crop

On desktop, you see close to the full 1584×396 frame. On mobile, LinkedIn crops the left and right edges and shifts what's visible, so anything parked near the outer edges can vanish on a phone. Because the majority of LinkedIn sessions happen on mobile, treat the mobile crop as the version most people will actually see, and design around it rather than the roomier desktop view.

The safe zone

Two areas get covered or cut, and you should keep them clear of anything important:

1. 1Bottom-left corner (roughly 568×264 px): your circular profile photo sits here and overlaps the banner. Never place text, a logo, or a face in this zone — it will be hidden behind your headshot.
2. 2Left and right edges: the mobile crop shaves these off. Keep essential content within the central band — a conservative target is roughly the middle 1350×300 px of the image.

In plain terms: build your banner so the headline, logo, or key visual lives in the upper-center of the frame. If you can cover the bottom-left quarter with your thumb and still understand the message, it will survive on every device.

Company Page logo and banner specs

Company Pages use a different set of dimensions from personal profiles, and they trip people up constantly because the upload size and the displayed size don't match. Here are the current 2026 numbers for the two images every page needs — the logo and the cover banner.

Company Page logo

• Recommended dimensions: 400×400 px.
• Minimum dimensions: 268×268 px (LinkedIn will reject anything smaller).
• Aspect ratio: 1:1 (square).
• File formats: PNG or JPEG.
• Maximum file size: 3 MB (smaller than the 8 MB personal limit).

Design the logo to read on both light and dark backgrounds, since LinkedIn surfaces it in multiple contexts, and remember it appears small — in search, in the feed byline, and as a rounded thumbnail. A dense wordmark that looks great on a website can become illegible at Company Page scale; a simplified mark or monogram usually holds up better.

Company Page banner

LinkedIn now recommends uploading the Company Page cover at 4200×700 pixels (JPG or PNG, up to 3 MB), even though the platform renders it at roughly 1128×191 px in the page layout. Uploading at the larger 4200×700 gives LinkedIn a high-resolution source to downscale, so the banner stays crisp on big screens.

• Recommended upload dimensions: 4200×700 px.
• Legacy/displayed dimensions: ~1128×191 px.
• Aspect ratio: 6:1.
• File formats: JPG or PNG.
• Maximum file size: 3 MB.

As with personal banners, the Company Page logo overlaps the bottom-left corner and mobile crops the sides toward the center. Keep the tagline and key graphics in the middle horizontal band, clear of the logo overlap.

Post and article image sizes

Beyond your profile, the images you attach to posts and articles have their own optimal sizes. Getting these right stops LinkedIn from cropping your visual awkwardly in the feed and helps link previews render at full width instead of shrinking to a thumbnail. Three formats cover almost everything you'll post.

• Link preview / landscape image: 1200×627 px (1.91:1) — the standard for shared links and horizontal feed images.
• Square post image: 1080×1080 px (1:1) — takes up more vertical space in the feed, good for standalone graphics.
• Portrait post image: 1080×1350 px (4:5) — the tallest LinkedIn allows in-feed, maximizing screen real estate on mobile and often the strongest performer there.
• Maximum file size: up to 8 MB per feed image.

For LinkedIn articles and newsletters, the cover/header image displays as a wide banner, so use a landscape image of at least 1200×627 px (a 16:9 frame around 1280×720 also works well). Use PNG when your image contains text or sharp-edged graphics to avoid JPG compression artifacts, and JPG for photographs where file size matters more than perfectly crisp edges.

A practical shortcut: if you only build reusable templates for three sizes, make them 1200×627, 1080×1080, and 1080×1350. Those three cover link posts, square graphics, and tall mobile-first images — the vast majority of what you'll ever publish.

Crop tips so faces (and text) don't get cut

Most LinkedIn image disasters aren't about resolution — they're about cropping. LinkedIn decides what to keep and what to trim, and its choices are consistent enough to design around once you know the rules. These habits apply to your profile photo, your banner, and any image with a face or headline in it.

• Center what matters. LinkedIn crops from the edges inward and gives the center the most visibility. Put faces, logos, and headlines in the middle 60% of any image.
• Respect the circle on your profile photo. Because the square is masked to a circle, leave breathing room around your head. Aim for your eyes on roughly the upper third and a little space above your hair, not a face jammed corner to corner.
• Leave a margin on banners. Keep text and key graphics at least ~150 px away from the left, right, and bottom edges so the mobile crop and the profile-photo overlap don't swallow them.
• Preview on a phone before you commit. Upload, then open your profile on the LinkedIn mobile app. If anything critical is cut, re-center and re-upload — it takes two minutes and catches nearly every problem.
• Upload larger than the display size. Give LinkedIn a high-resolution source so its downscaling stays sharp; never upsize a small image to hit a target dimension.

If your headshot itself is the weak link — bad lighting, distracting background, or a crop that fights the circular frame — no amount of resizing rescues it. This is where getting the source photo right pays off, whether that's a photographer session or an AI-generated set framed square from the start. Our honest comparison of AI headshots and photographers lays out the tradeoffs, and what to wear for a headshot covers the wardrobe choices that read cleanly at thumbnail size.

2026 LinkedIn image size cheat sheet

Here's every dimension in one place for quick reference. When in doubt, upload at or above the recommended size, keep your subject centered, and check the mobile crop before you consider it done.

• Profile photo: 400×400 px min (up to 7680×4320), 1:1, JPG/PNG, ≤8 MB — displays as a circle.
• Personal banner / cover: 1584×396 px, 4:1, JPG/PNG/GIF, ≤8 MB — keep content out of the bottom-left and edges.
• Company Page logo: 400×400 px (268×268 min), 1:1, PNG/JPEG, ≤3 MB.
• Company Page banner: upload 4200×700 px (displays ~1128×191), 6:1, JPG/PNG, ≤3 MB.
• Post link/landscape image: 1200×627 px (1.91:1), ≤8 MB.
• Square post image: 1080×1080 px (1:1).
• Portrait post image: 1080×1350 px (4:5).
• Article/newsletter cover: 1200×627 px or larger, landscape.

If you're refreshing your whole profile, it's worth pairing the correct sizes with a genuinely good headshot. You can see the kind of framing that survives the circular crop in our example headshots, or start a fresh set with the headshot generator and export it square from the beginning.