What are the current image sizes for Facebook in 2019? What you need to know from profile picture, cover photo, event cover, group cover and featured image all in one place.
THE LATEST 2019 FACEBOOK IMAGE SIZE GUIDE
Are you up to date with your Facebook image size?
Nowadays, Facebook image sizes are always subject to change whenever Facebook decides to update/upgrade their platform. Visual content is a very important part of our online social life and having the wrong size image can be a deal breaker in some cases.
In order to ensure the best result for your social media marketing efforts, it is important to keep track of this ever-changing image size on Facebook.
Let’s discover together, the current image sizes for:
– Facebook Profile Photo Size
– Facebook Page Cover Photo Size
– Facebook Event cover photo size
– Facebook Group cover photo size
– Featured Image size
Please note, for best result, it is better to upload a PNG file for all your pictures.
Save yourself the trouble of remembering all the dimensions by bookmarking this article.
Profile Pic: 170 x 170 pixels
One of the first things, people see when visiting your Facebook profile or your other social media accounts for that matter, is your profile picture and your cover photo.
Your 👉profile picture👈 is by far the most important picture of them all. It is displayed everywhere. It appears on your timeline, on every post you share, on every comment you write, in the Facebook search result, on other people timeline, and on Facebook messenger.
You really want to get this one right.
Profile picture
Best result: 170 x 170 pixels
Cover Photo, Slideshow & Video:
On the other hand, your cover photo is only present in two places. It is present on your profile page and it is displayed in your friends/followers’ news feed whenever you upload a new cover.
Cover Photo
Best result: 828 x 312 pixels
Min: 400 pixels wide and 150 pixels tall
Your cover photo is by far the largest image on your page. Your page visitors will see your cover photo before they even have a chance to see any of your posts. It offers a unique opportunity to convey a message to your page visitors, so make it count.
For your profile cover, you also have the choice between a cover picture slideshow and a cover video.
Cover Slideshow
Best result: 828 x 312 pixels
Min: 400 pixels wide and 150 pixels tall
Select up to 5 photos.
Cover Video
Best results: 820 x 462 pixels
Min: 820 x 312 pixels & between 20 and 90 seconds.
Event cover photo: 1200x628 pixels
For your event cover, you can upload either a photo or a video.
For best results, choose photos or videos that are 1200×628 pixels (about a 2:1 ratio) and the video must be between 30 seconds and 5 minutes.
Event cover photo
Best result: 1200×628 pixels (about a 2:1 ratio)
Best between: 30 seconds and 5 minutes.
Group cover photo: 1,640 x 856 pixels
The recommended size for your group cover photos is 1,640 x 856 pixels (or 1.91:1 ratio).
As you can see in the diagram below, the gray area at the top and the bottom may not display depending on your visitors’ mobile device. In other words, avoid placing important info in the gray areas.
Group cover photo
Best result:Â 1,640 x 856 pixels (or 1.91:1 ratio).
Featured Image: 1,200 x 628 pixels
The recommended size for your feature image is 1,200 x 628 pixels (ratio 4:3) displays as 470 x 470 pixels.
The featured image appears when you share a link. This image is especially important to bloggers. Most frequently, you’ll find the title of a blog article written on the featured image. This way, Facebook users can read the main title without clicking on the image to decipher your title.
featured image
Best result:Â 1200 x 628 pixels (ratio 4:3)
Display as: 470 x 470 pixels
To recap:
Keeping up with all the different dimensions can prove to be difficult.
There is nothing worse than creating a great image, only to find out after you uploaded it on Facebook, that the dimensions are all out of whack…. And nobody can read the wording on the image without opening it.
Understanding all the various Facebook image sizes will help your images pop
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