All the image sizes you need to know for Social Media Sites….

Posted by cci34900 on May 11, 2016 in Blog, Uncategorized | Comments Off on All the image sizes you need to know for Social Media Sites….

Keeping track of what size images to use on social media can daunting. They are constantly changing, and you’ll have to keep up on these settings. This is very important if you’re using social media to advertise your brand or business.

Here is a list of all the image sizes that you’ll need on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Tumblr.

Facebook:

Profile Image: 180 by 180 pixels

Cover Photo: 851 by 315 pixels

Shared Image in Time-line: 1200 by 630 pixels

Shared Link in Time-line: 1200 by 627 pixels

For Facebook Pages, the dimensions are different when it comes to the cover photo:

Facebook Page cover photo: 828 by 315 pixels

Twitter:

Profile: Recommended size is 400 by 400 pixels. It will display at 200 by 200 pixels

Header: 1500 by 500 pixels

Shared image in time-line: Minimum size for the image is 440 by 220 pixels & Maximum size is 1024 pixels by 512 pixels

Instagram:

Profile: 180 by 180 pixels. Will display at 110 by 110 pixels. On the web it displays in a circle within a bounding box of 152 by 152 pixels

Photo: 1080 by 1080 pixels. Instagram scales these photos to 612 by 612 pixels. Now that Instagram has relaxed its rules and doesn’t restrict users to square photos, landscape images can be up to 1080 by 566 pixels, and portrait images are 1080 pixels by 1350 pixels.

Photo thumbnails on profiles: 161 by 161 pixels

YouTube:

Channel Cover: 2560 by 1440 pixels

Video thumbnail: 1280 by 720 pixels

Channel icon: 800 by 800 pixels

Pinterest:

Profile: 165 by 165 pixels

Featured image on a board on profile: 222 by 150 pixels

Small icons on a board on profile: 50 by 50 pixels

Width of image in feed: 236 pixels

Width of expanded image: 736 pixels wide by 1104 to 2,061 pixels tall. The minimum width of an expanded image is 600 pixels

Tumblr:

Profile: 128x by 128 pixels

Image posts: 500 by 750 pixels

Google+:

Profile: 250 by 250 pixels

Cover Image: 1080 by 607 pixels. Maximum size of 2120 by 1192 pixels

Shared image: Width of 497. The height will be scaled

LinkedIn:

Profile: 200 by 200 pixels

Background photo: 1400 by 425 pixels

Blog/status update: 698 by 400 pixels

If you have a company page, the dimensions are different:

Cover photo: 974 by 300 pixels minimum

Logo: The minimum size is 300 by 300 pixels, recommended size is 400 by 400