LinkedIn Post Image Size
1200 by 627 for a standard post — and one thing worth knowing before you try to build a carousel out of images, because that is not how LinkedIn does it.
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How it works
Three steps, no account, and the image never leaves your computer.
Drop the image in
JPG, PNG, WebP or an iPhone HEIC. Several at once is fine — they all come out the same size.
The size is already set to 1200 by 627
Change it if you need something else. Cover crops to fill, Contain fits the whole picture and pads the rest.
Check the preview, then save
The crop is shown before anything is written, so what you get is what you saw.
What people resize to this
A graphic for a post that links somewhere
The 1.91:1 preview is what appears when the link is shared, whatever else is in the post.
Slides for a carousel
Sized identically first, then combined into a single PDF — which is what LinkedIn actually wants.
A photo from an event or a conference
Cropped deliberately to the feed shape rather than trimmed by the layout.
A chart or a screenshot from a report
Resized so the text in it is still legible at the width a phone shows.
The size, and the format nobody expects
1200 by 627 pixels is the standard post image, and it is 1.91:1 — the same proportion Facebook and everybody else uses for link previews, three pixels of height apart. An image made for one works for the other, which saves making two.
A portrait image also works in the LinkedIn feed and takes more vertical space on a phone, which is why so many posts use one. The wide 1.91:1 is what appears when somebody shares a link, and that part is not optional.
| Size | Ratio | File limit |
|---|---|---|
| 1200 × 627 px | 1.91:1 | not published |
A LinkedIn carousel is a PDF
This is the one that catches people, because every other platform does it with images.
Those swipeable multi-slide posts are document uploads. You do not attach eight images — you attach one PDF with eight pages, and LinkedIn turns the pages into slides. Uploading eight images gives you an image gallery, which is a different, flatter-looking thing.
So the workflow is: design the slides, size them all identically, and combine them into a single PDF in page order. Square or portrait slides read better on a phone than wide ones, because a carousel is scrolled on a small screen.
It is a small screen and a fast scroll
LinkedIn is read on phones between other things. A 1200-pixel image renders a few hundred pixels wide, and anything set in a body-text size is gone. If the image carries a message, it needs to be three or four words at a size that looks absurd while you are designing it.
Keep the corners clear
The feed rounds the corners of images, and different placements crop the edges by different amounts. A margin of about five per cent all round means nothing important is ever the thing that gets trimmed.
Profile and company banners are separate sizes
This page is the post image. The profile banner behind your photo is a different, much wider shape, and a company page cover is different again. They are not interchangeable, and using one for the other is the most visible way to get it wrong.
Cover or Contain, and what each throws away
Two ways to fit one shape into another, and the tool offers both.
Cover fills the frame completely and crops whatever does not fit. Nothing is distorted and nothing is padded; some of the picture is simply gone. This is what you want almost always.
Contain fits the whole image inside the frame and fills the leftover space with a colour you choose. Nothing is lost, but the picture is smaller and there are bars. Right when the whole frame matters — a poster, a diagram, a design you cannot cut.
Neither ever stretches. An image squashed to fit is the one mistake that cannot be undone by looking at it again later.
Nothing is uploaded
The resizing happens in your browser using your own processor, so the image never leaves your machine. That is why there is no file-size limit, no queue and no account, and why a batch of forty is limited by your computer rather than by somebody’s free tier.
Common questions
What size should a LinkedIn post image be?
1200 by 627 pixels, a 1.91:1 landscape. That is also what is shown when somebody shares a link, and it is three pixels of height away from the Facebook size, so one image covers both.
How do I make a LinkedIn carousel?
Upload a PDF, not images. LinkedIn carousels are document posts: one PDF with one page per slide, which it turns into a swipeable set. Uploading several images gives you a gallery instead.
Is a portrait image better on LinkedIn?
In the feed it takes more vertical space on a phone, which many accounts prefer. For the preview image on a shared link the shape is fixed at 1.91:1, so that one is not a choice.
Is this the same as the banner size?
No. The profile banner behind your photo is far wider and a company cover is different again. This page is the image inside a post.
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