LinkedIn image sizes 2026
Every LinkedIn image dimension in one table — profile photo, banners, post images, carousels, articles, company pages — plus a live checker: drop in your image and see which placements it passes. Dimensions are read in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
● free · no login · runs in your browser
Read locally with the browser's Image object — your file never leaves your machine.
How to use it
- Pick the image you plan to use. It's read entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded anywhere.
- Read the grades: pass means the size and ratio fit that placement, warn means it fits but isn't the ideal ratio (expect cropping), fail means it's below the minimum.
- For anything marked warn or fail, crop or re-export at the recommended dimensions from the table below — matching the aspect ratio matters more than exact pixels.
Every LinkedIn image size (2026)
Widely-cited current values. LinkedIn adjusts display specs over time and doesn't always document changes — when in doubt, match the aspect ratio and go at least as large as the recommendation.
| Placement | Size | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Profile photo | 400×400 (1:1) | minimum | Displays circular — keep your face centered, corners get cut. Larger squares look sharper. |
| Personal banner (background) | 1584×396 (4:1) | recommended | Profile photo overlaps the bottom-left on desktop; mobile crops the sides. Key content right-of-center, top. |
| Post / shared image | 1200×627 (~1.91:1) | recommended | 1:1 (1080×1080) and 4:5 (1080×1350) also render well; 4:5 takes the most mobile feed space. |
| Carousel / document (PDF pages) | 1080×1080 or 1080×1350 | recommended | Carousels are PDFs, not images. Up to 300 pages / 100MB commonly cited. |
| Article cover | 1920×1080 (16:9) | recommended | Also becomes the link preview when the article is shared. |
| Event banner | 1600×900 (16:9) | recommended | — |
| Newsletter logo | 300×300 (1:1) | recommended | — |
| Company logo | 300×300 (1:1) | recommended | Shows tiny in feeds and search — must survive small sizes. |
| Company page cover | 1128×191 (~5.9:1) | recommended | Extremely wide and short — treat it as a strip, not a photo. |
Values reflect widely-cited specs as of July 2026. LinkedIn adjusts these with UI changes; ratios are more durable than pixel counts.
Why the sizes matter: crops kill banners
Most "bad LinkedIn images" aren't low-resolution — they're right-resolution, wrong-composition. The banner is the classic case: on desktop, your circular profile photo sits over the banner's bottom-left corner, hiding whatever you put there. On mobile, the sides get cropped. So a 1584×396 banner with a tagline in the bottom-left is technically perfect and practically invisible. The rule: keep the message right-of-center and toward the top, and leave the bottom-left as dead space by design.
The same composition-first thinking applies to feed images. LinkedIn will letterbox or crop anything far from its expected ratios, and the crop doesn't ask which part of your image mattered. If you design at the target ratio from the start — 1.91:1, 1:1, or 4:5 for posts — you decide what's in frame instead of the crop deciding for you.
Think in aspect ratios, not pixel numbers
LinkedIn changes pixel specs quietly and occasionally; the ratios barely move. What's worth memorizing: banner ≈ 4:1 (a strip), feed image = 1.91:1 / 1:1 / 4:5, article and event covers = 16:9, everything logo-ish = square. Export at or above the recommended size in that ratio and you're safe through the next UI shuffle — that's what the checker above actually tests for.
Carousels are documents, not images
A LinkedIn "carousel" is a PDF uploaded as a document — the image sizes apply to how you design each page, not what you upload. Build pages at 1080×1080 or 1080×1350 (portrait takes more mobile feed space), export the deck as one PDF, and upload that. Commonly cited limits: up to 300 pages and 100MB, though almost nothing should be 300 pages. Planning one? Start with the carousel outline tool, and run the accompanying post through the post preview before shipping.
Generating or validating LinkedIn visuals with Claude Code or another agent? Install the reference skill — it carries this full dimensions table with the ratio rules, so your agent sizes images correctly without guessing:
npx skills add liftli-ai/skills --skill linkedin-image-sizesPart of the liftli-ai/skills collection — browse all 28 skills, one per tool on this site. For the full pipeline (voice extraction, strategy memory, publishing), connect the Liftli MCP.