need the best image sizes for Facebook it's so frustrating when you design
something that looks perfect on the desktop computer then you pull it up on
your smartphone it's just a mess today we're gonna run through the best image
sizes for all the different places you use images on Facebook alright let's get
into it
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and today we're talking about the best image sizes for facebook this will be
helpful if you've ever created a facebook cover photo and it looks great
on the computer or an event photo and you pull it up on your mobile phone and
it looks like garbage this will help you know what sizes to use where I've got
two pieces of good news for you though one Facebook has made it so that most
image sizes would look good on desktop also look good on mobile most of the
time not always but most of the time and number two I'm gonna share with you the
best image sizes for facebook profile photos cover photos photo posts video
posts ads and group photos so let's start with profile photos generally your
profile photo is gonna be square although a lot of times it does crop it
down to a circle for example in each post on the newsfeed so just keep that
in mind the profile photo will show at 170 by 170 I usually size my profile
photos like if I'm gonna take the time to resize them for a bunch of networks
I'll use canva to do that cuz it's free and it's easy and I'll usually size them
at 400 by 400 because that's what Twitter and LinkedIn and some other
social networks use so if I'm taking one logo or one image I'm gonna put it on
all of my different channels I'll just go ahead and do 400 by 400 but any
square bigger than 170 by 170 will work the same just make sure it looks good
tiny because obviously on a smartphone it's gonna be very very small facebook
cover photo these are at the top of your page
officially the sizes are listed as 820 by 312 again we're talking pixels on a
desktop computer or 640 by 360 on mobile devices not all of it will show on
mobile though the edges get cropped off so keep the most important part in the
middle now I actually prefer to design mine at 820 by 461 as suggested by
Louise m.com the top and the bottom will be cropped a little bit in desktop and
the sides will be cropped on mobile so again keep your important content there
in the middle also remember the difference between personal profiles and
business pages most of what we're talking about in this video applies to
business pages but it also works for personal profiles but on personal
profiles the profile photo covers up part of the cover photo on the left side
on the desktop and then in the middle as you see here on mobile so if you're
doing this for a personal profile you also got a factor in that part when
choosing or designing your cover photo photo posts they can range from a 16 by
9 ratio which is widescreen like 1920 by 1080 up to a 9 to 16 ratio which is
portrait 1080 by 1920 now I like to go tall with my images whenever possible
because you take up more real estate in the newsfeed
on both desktop and mobile a wide photo only takes a little bit of space in the
newsfeed square takes a little more and then a tall photo or a portrait photo
actually takes up a lot more space as they're scrolling and my theory is the
more time someone's eyes spend on your image the more likely you are to get
them to stop and engage with it for video posts for the longest time it was
always a sixteen by nine ratio which is 1920 by 1080 that's widescreen but
square videos often perform better because they take up more height in the
newsfeed just like we talked about for images and it's not officially
sanctioned but you can upload even taller videos but if you do a fully
vertical video at a 9 to 16 ratio 1080 by 1920 which is what Facebook and
Instagram stories use it will get cropped off at the top and the bottom or
have bars on the side so just keep that in mind for Facebook ads the
size has been 1200 by 628 pixels for ever and just recently facebook said
that we could start using square images in ads so if you're gonna create those I
start at 1200 by 1200 a couple more that will cover group photos 1640 by 859 is
recommended by Facebook but a tiny piece of the top and the bottom won't show so
make sure nothing is important there and then Facebook event photos 1920 by 1080
again they'll show slightly differently on mobile so keep that in mind with
everything I've shown you today as soon as you're done try and look at it on
your Facebook page on a desktop as well as on a mobile device that way you know
everything looks good everywhere but having these image sizes should save you
some time in testing I hope those were helpful if so do me a favor give this
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