Pinterest Pin Size
1000 by 1500, which is 2:3 — the tallest shape Pinterest shows in full before it starts cutting the bottom off.
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Enlarging past the original cannot add detail that was never captured. The tool says so when it happens rather than quietly handing back something softer.
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 1000 by 1500
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 recipe or a tutorial pin
With the title in the upper half, where it is shown whether or not anybody taps through.
A product or a listing
At the tallest shape that is not cut off, so the whole thing is seen in the feed.
A blog post graphic
Made once at 2:3 and reused, rather than guessing at the shape each time.
A photo turned into a pin
Landscape into 2:3 is a heavy crop. The preview shows what goes before it does.
Two to three, and why taller is not better
1000 by 1500 pixels, a 2:3 ratio. Pinterest is a vertical feed and taller pins take more of it, so the instinct is to go taller still. There is a limit, and it is this one.
Past 2:3 the bottom gets cut
Pins taller than 2:3 are truncated in the feed. Whatever is at the bottom — often the part with the call to action, because that is where people put it — is simply not shown until somebody taps through, and most people do not.
So 2:3 is not a minimum to beat. It is the tallest shape that is shown whole, which makes it the right one.
| Size | Ratio | File limit |
|---|---|---|
| 1000 × 1500 px | 2:3 | 20 MB |
Text goes at the top
Following from that: if a pin carries a title, put it in the upper half. That part is shown in every layout, at every size, whether or not anybody taps. The bottom third is where a design puts things it can afford to lose.
It is displayed narrow
A pin is around 236 pixels wide in a feed column. You are designing at 1000 and it is shown at a quarter of that, which is the same trap as a YouTube thumbnail: text that reads comfortably while you work disappears entirely in the feed. Large, few words, high contrast.
Why 1000 wide is enough
Pinterest will take much larger — the file limit is 20 MB — but it resizes for display anyway, and 1000 is comfortably above what is ever shown. Going bigger costs upload time and gains nothing visible.
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 Pinterest pin be?
1000 by 1500 pixels, a 2:3 ratio. That is the tallest shape shown in full — anything taller is cut off at the bottom in the feed.
Are taller pins better?
No. Past 2:3 the bottom is truncated in the feed, so a taller pin means the bottom of your design is not shown to most people.
Where should the text go?
The upper half. That part is shown in every layout, and a pin is displayed around 236 pixels wide, so the text needs to be large and short.
Should I upload something bigger than 1000 wide?
No benefit. Pinterest accepts up to 20 MB but resizes for display anyway, and 1000 is already above what is ever shown.
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