LinkedIn Profile Picture Size

LinkedIn profile photos are displayed in a circular crop, so the safest upload is a high-resolution square image with the face centered and enough space around the head and shoulders.

• Use a square image
• Keep the face centered
• Leave room for circular crop
• Avoid tiny low-resolution files

Use a head-and-shoulders crop. If your face fills too much of the square, LinkedIn's circular preview may crop your hair, chin, or shoulders in a way that feels accidental.

Use a square image with enough resolution for LinkedIn to resize cleanly. A 400 by 400 pixel image is a common minimum target, but a larger square export such as 800 by 800 or 1024 by 1024 gives more room for clean cropping and compression.

• Square aspect ratio
• At least 400 by 400 pixels
• Prefer 800 by 800 or larger when available
• Keep the face centered
• Leave safe space for the circular crop

Your LinkedIn image is not only seen on your profile page. It also appears in search results, comments, connection suggestions, messages, job applications, and recruiter views. That is why the face needs to stay readable even when the image is very small.

Preview the photo as a circle before uploading. The strongest crop keeps the eyes near the upper middle, leaves a little space above the hair, shows the shoulders, and avoids placing the chin, forehead, or hairline too close to the edge.

• Eyes visible and sharp
• Face fills enough of the circle
• Hair and chin not cut off
• Shoulders visible
• Background still clean after crop