LinkedIn profile picture size
LinkedIn displays your photo as a circle and crops the corners away. Upload yours to see the circle before you commit to it.
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LinkedIn profile picture size and dimensions
A LinkedIn profile picture is 400 × 400 pixels at minimum. LinkedIn accepts much larger — anything up to roughly 1000 × 1000 is worth uploading, because higher resolution holds up better on retina screens.
What matters more than the number is the shape. You upload a square, LinkedIn displays a circle, and everything outside that circle is discarded.
| Minimum accepted | 400 × 400 px |
|---|---|
| Maximum accepted | 7,680 × 4,320 px |
| Accepted formats | JPG or PNG (not GIF) |
| Maximum file size | 8 MB |
| Displayed as | Circle |
| This tool exports at | 400 × 400 px |
These are LinkedIn's stated limits, not recommendations. A photo that meets every one of them can still be cropped badly — see below.
About GIFs
LinkedIn does not accept GIF for profile photos. You'll see guides saying otherwise — they're repeating the spec for cover photos, where GIF is accepted (and shows as a single static frame anyway).
For your profile picture, use JPG or PNG. If you have a GIF you want to use, export a single frame as a PNG first.
Why your LinkedIn photo looks more zoomed in than the one you uploaded
Two crops happen, and most people only account for the first.
LinkedIn takes a square from your photo, then masks that square to a circle. A circle fits inside a square using 78.5% of its area — so the second step throws away another 21.5%, all of it from the corners.
That's why a photo that looked well-framed as a rectangle comes back tight: the top of your head clipped, your shoulders cut, more of your face filling the frame than you intended. Nothing went wrong. You were composing for a shape you never saw.
The other half of the problem is that your profile picture doesn't only appear on your profile. It shows up beside every comment you leave, in search results, in InMail, in "people also viewed" — often at 48 pixels or smaller. At that size, a head-and-shoulders shot reads clearly and a full upper body becomes an unrecognisable smudge.
How this tool handles it
This tool shows you the circle while you're cropping, not after.
Upload your photo and it detects your face, centres it with proper head-room, and draws the actual circular mask over the top. Drag and zoom until the framing looks right inside the circle — that's what LinkedIn will show, so there's no gap between what you approve and what gets published.
It also previews the small sizes, so you can check your face is still legible at comment scale before you commit.
How it works
- 1.Upload a photo.
- 2.We centre it on your face automatically.
- 3.Drag to reposition, or use the slider to zoom.
- 4.Download your cropped photo at the exact size.
Frequently asked questions
- What size should a LinkedIn profile picture be?
- 400 × 400 pixels at minimum. LinkedIn accepts larger, and anything up to about 1000 × 1000 is worth uploading for sharper rendering on high-resolution screens.
- Why does my LinkedIn photo look zoomed in?
- LinkedIn crops your photo to a square and then masks it to a circle, which discards the corners — about 21.5% of the square. A photo framed for a rectangle ends up noticeably tighter. Crop it as a circle first and there's no surprise.
- Does my profile picture cover my banner?
- Yes. It sits over the lower-left corner of your cover photo, on desktop and mobile, and it's larger on mobile. If you're designing a banner too, keep text and logos out of that corner.
- Why does my photo look bad in comments and search results?
- Your profile picture appears throughout LinkedIn at much smaller sizes — often under 50 pixels. A tight head-and-shoulders crop survives that; a full-body or group photo doesn't. Crop closer than feels necessary.
- Can I use a GIF as my LinkedIn profile picture?
- No. LinkedIn doesn't accept GIF for profile photos. Use JPG or PNG.
- Does it matter if my photo isn't square?
- Only in that LinkedIn will crop it to square for you, and its automatic crop may not pick the framing you'd choose. Cropping it yourself first means you decide.
- Do I need to sign up to use this?
- No. The cropper is free and unlimited, and nothing you upload leaves your device.
- Is my photo uploaded anywhere?
- No. Everything runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, stored, or sent to a server.