How to Resize Images for Facebook Posts, Stories and Covers

Facebook resizes everything you upload, and not always kindly. Cover photos get trimmed differently on phones and computers, link previews crop the top and bottom of your image, and tall photos get cut short in the feed. Sizing images yourself before you post means you decide what stays in the frame.

Below are the sizes that work for Facebook posts, Stories, link previews and page covers, plus a quick way to resize any photo with the free Image Resizer. Nothing is uploaded; it all runs in your browser.

Facebook image sizes

All five are built into the resizer as presets. Facebook revises its layouts from time to time, so check Facebook’s Help Center before a big campaign.

Feed posts: square or portrait

For the feed, portrait 4:5 takes up the most room on a phone screen, which is where most people scroll. Square 1:1 is the safe all-rounder, and it also works if you cross-post the same image to Instagram. Very tall images are cropped in the feed, so stick to 4:5 or wider.

If you post several photos together, give them the same shape so Facebook’s collage layout doesn’t crop them unevenly.

Cover photos: design for two crops

The page cover is the tricky one. Computers show a wide strip, roughly 820 × 312, while phones show a taller, narrower slice, roughly 640 × 360. The sides are cut off on mobile, and the top and bottom on desktop.

• Keep text and logos in the middle of the image, away from all four edges.
• Remember that the profile picture overlaps the cover in the lower-left on most layouts.
• Use a background that still looks intentional when trimmed: a wide landscape, a texture or a solid color.

Export the cover as a high-quality JPG, or as a PNG if it contains a logo or text. PNG keeps sharp edges after Facebook recompresses it.

Link previews: the image people see when you share a link

When you share a blog post or product page, Facebook pulls a preview image from the page. The 1.91:1 shape at 1200 × 630 shows in full. Other shapes are cropped or shrunk to a small square. If you run a website, set this image as your page’s Open Graph image so it appears whenever someone shares your link.

Step by step: resize a photo for Facebook

1. Open the Image Resizer and add a JPG, PNG or WebP image.
2. Choose Facebook and pick a preset: square post, portrait post, link preview, Story or page cover.
3. Choose Crop to fill and drag the preview to frame your subject, or pick Fit + blur or Fit + border to keep the whole photo with no cropping.
4. Choose JPG for photos or PNG for graphics with text, then resize and download.

For the same photo on Instagram as well, the square and portrait sizes are identical, so one export covers both. The Instagram resizing guide covers the Instagram-only formats.

Why Facebook photos look blurry, and how to avoid it

• The image was too small. Facebook stretches small images to fill the frame. Start at 1080 px wide or more.
• The file was huge. Very large files get compressed hard on upload. Exporting at the exact size above gives Facebook less to recompress.
• Text in a JPG. Fine text gets fuzzy halos. Save text-heavy graphics as PNG.
• Uploaded over a slow connection. The mobile app may lower the upload quality to save data. Check the app’s media quality settings.

Key takeaways

• Feed posts: 1080 × 1350 (4:5) for the most screen space, or 1080 × 1080 (1:1).
• Stories: 1080 × 1920 (9:16). Link previews: 1200 × 630 (1.91:1).
• Cover photos: 851 × 315, with everything important kept near the center.
• Resize to the exact size before uploading, and use PNG for text-heavy graphics.

Want every platform in one table? See the social media image size cheat sheet.