Resize any photo to the exact LinkedIn background size (1584 × 396), a 400 × 400 profile photo or a post image, cropped to fill or padded to fit, without leaving your browser.
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LinkedIn is often the first place a recruiter, client or colleague sees you, and a stretched banner or a blurry, badly cropped profile photo makes a poor first impression. The problem is that LinkedIn uses unusual shapes: the background photo is four times wider than it is tall, while the profile photo is a square shown as a circle. Upload a normal camera photo and LinkedIn decides what to cut off.
This resizer starts on the official background size, 1584 × 396 pixels, and also has presets for the 400 × 400 profile photo and common post sizes. You choose whether the photo should fill the frame (with a centred crop) or fit inside it (with a background around it), preview the result and download it. Everything happens in your browser; your photos are never uploaded.
Before
Landscape photo
4000 × 3000
A 4:3 camera photo that LinkedIn would crop unpredictably as a banner.
After (Fill & Crop)
LinkedIn background
1584 × 396
Exactly 4:1, centred crop, no bars, ready to upload.
Measured with a 4000 × 3000 test photo and the Fill & Crop strategy: the full width is kept and the middle quarter of the height becomes the banner. Fit & Pad keeps the whole photo and adds bars instead.
Drop a JPG, PNG or WebP into the workspace. The LinkedIn background preset (1584 × 396) is applied automatically.
Keep the banner preset, or choose LinkedIn Profile Photo (400 × 400) or LinkedIn Post Image (1200 × 627) from the preset list.
Select Fill & Crop to fill the frame with no bars, or Fit & Pad Space to keep the whole photo with a background around it.
Click Resize & Preview, check the result, then download it as JPG, PNG or WebP.
| Image | Size (px) | Shape | Preset in the tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| Background (banner) photo | 1584 × 396 | 4:1 | LinkedIn Background Photo |
| Profile photo | 400 × 400 (min) | 1:1, shown as a circle | LinkedIn Profile Photo |
| Shared link / landscape post | 1200 × 627 | ≈1.91:1 | LinkedIn Post Image |
| Square post | 1080 × 1080 | 1:1 | Instagram Post (Square) |
| File types | JPG, PNG | — | Choose in Export Format |
| Maximum file size (photos) | 8 MB | — | Lower quality if needed |
When a photo does not have the same shape as the target size, something has to give. The Fill & Crop strategy scales the photo until it covers the whole frame and trims the overflow equally from both sides. Nothing is stretched and there are no bars, which is what you want for a banner. In our test, a 4000 × 3000 landscape photo kept its full width and the middle 1000 pixels of its height became the 1584 × 396 banner.
Fit & Pad Space does the opposite: the whole photo is kept and scaled to fit inside the frame, and the empty space is filled with a background. This is useful for logos, slides or screenshots where nothing may be cut off. Stretch/Scale forces the photo to the exact size and distorts it, so avoid it for photos of people.
A 4:1 strip is a very wide crop, so the photo you start with matters more than the settings. Portrait photos are a poor fit: when we filled a 1584 × 396 banner from a portrait headshot, only a narrow band across the chest remained. Good banner sources are:
On a personal profile, your round profile photo sits over the lower-left part of the banner, and the exact overlap changes between desktop, tablet and the mobile app. Keep text and important details towards the centre and right of the banner, and test how it looks on your phone after uploading. If something important is hidden, move your subject in the original photo with the Image Cropper before resizing.
LinkedIn asks for a profile photo of at least 400 × 400 pixels. Choose the LinkedIn Profile Photo preset and Fill & Crop to turn any photo into a centred square. Because LinkedIn shows the photo as a circle, the corners are hidden, so keep your face centred with a little space above your head. You can preview the round result with the circle crop tool.
Starting from a larger photo is fine. LinkedIn accepts large images and scales them down itself, but uploading an image that already has the right shape means LinkedIn does not crop it differently from what you expect.
For images in posts, LinkedIn does not publish a single required size, and the feed shows several shapes. The commonly used landscape size is 1200 × 627 (about 1.91:1), the same shape LinkedIn uses for link previews, and it is available as the LinkedIn Post Image preset. Square images (1080 × 1080) take up more room in the feed on phones and are a safe choice for photos and graphics.
Whatever size you choose, keep text large: most people see your post on a phone screen, where a 1200-pixel-wide image is shown at a fraction of its size.
LinkedIn accepts JPG and PNG for profile and background photos, with a maximum of 8 MB according to LinkedIn Help. Use JPG for photographs; it keeps files small. Use PNG for graphics with sharp text, logos or flat colours. The export format menu also offers WebP, but stick to JPG or PNG for LinkedIn profile images. In our tests a 1584 × 396 JPG came out around 110 KB, and a 400 × 400 profile photo around 40 KB, well under any limit.
Profile photos are personal. This tool resizes them with the browser canvas on your own device: nothing is uploaded, stored or shared, and the result has no watermark. You can close the tab and nothing remains anywhere except the file you downloaded.
Update the profile photo and banner before applying so recruiters see a polished page.
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LinkedIn recommends 1584 × 396 pixels for the background photo on a personal profile, a 4:1 shape. The preset in this tool produces exactly that size.
LinkedIn asks for at least 400 × 400 pixels; larger square photos are accepted. The photo is shown as a circle, so keep your face in the centre. For a round preview, see the circle crop tool.
LinkedIn does not publish one fixed size for feed images. 1200 × 627 (about 1.91:1) is the widely used size for link-style landscape images, and 1080 × 1080 squares also display well. Both are available as presets.
A 4:1 banner is very wide, so most photos have to lose part of their height. Use Fill & Crop with a landscape photo whose subject sits in the middle band, and remember that your profile photo covers part of the left side of the banner on many screens.
No, unless you pick Stretch/Scale. Fill & Crop scales the photo to cover the frame and trims the overflow equally from both sides; Fit & Pad scales it to fit inside and fills the rest with a background.
JPG for photos and PNG for graphics with text or logos. LinkedIn accepts both for profile and background photos.
LinkedIn Help lists a maximum of 8 MB for profile and background photos. A 1584 × 396 JPG is usually far smaller; in our test it was about 110 KB.
No. The resizing happens on a canvas in your browser, so your photos never leave your device.
Company page covers use different dimensions from personal banners. Type the size LinkedIn shows in your page admin into the width and height fields and use Fill & Crop.
Resize first, then add text or arrows with the Image Annotator, or a logo with the Watermark tool. Keep text away from the left side where the profile photo overlaps.