Comments on: New Facebook Profile Photo Size Impacts Cover Photos [Infographic]

By: BELADEL ILYES ABDELRAZAK

BELADEL ILYES ABDELRAZAK — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 01:10:00 +0000

In reply to Kathryn.

Try this online tool http://socl-img.com/ to resize images, please tell if you find it useful.

By: BELADEL ILYES ABDELRAZAK

BELADEL ILYES ABDELRAZAK — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 01:08:00 +0000

Great details, but now things can be more easy since there are online social media tools to resize images.

By: Jon Loomer

Jon Loomer — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 22:08:00 +0000

In reply to Remo. I have a new infographic coming out in about eight hours! Stay tuned.

By: Remo

Remo — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 04:22:00 +0000

It looks like they’ve changed it again since you’ve made this. I followed your very clear example, but my picture doesn’t line up and my profile photo looks noticeably higher than your example… Could you update this? Thanks~

By: MillsteadART

MillsteadART — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 04:54:00 +0000

In reply to Jon Loomer. I am

By: Jon Loomer

Jon Loomer — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 05:32:00 +0000

In reply to MillsteadART. Use a png file.

By: MillsteadART

MillsteadART — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 22:19:00 +0000

I try uploading a customized cover to my personal page and it ends up very pixelated or blurry. I am using the right sizes etc. What should I do?

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 02:25:00 +0000

yes I just uploaded a number of photos of jewelry from my online store to facebook and notice the photos on facebook are huge. Do I have to now change the size of the photo on my online store and repost to facebook? Tell me it’s not so

By: Jon Loomer

Jon Loomer — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 04:13:00 +0000

In reply to Stingraybiz. Oh, that was a heart stopping series! Sorry to see the O's get bounced this year.

By: Stingraybiz

Stingraybiz — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:03:00 +0000

Good stuff here John, thx for taking the time. I especially like the flashback to 1982. Lifelong O’s fan here, I was at the doubleheader between Brewers & O’s at the old Memorial Stadium. O’s had to sweep to win the division, came up one short. No wildcard back then.

By: Tessa Macapil

Tessa Macapil — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:08:00 +0000

Hello! am new here and very interested on learning about Facebook as a tool for social media marketing, sir I would just like to know the dimension of a picture to be used as profile picture and banner when you make adjustment on it on Photoshop? Thank you very much.

By: Random Citizen

Random Citizen — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:01:00 +0000

PERFECT!! Thank you thank you thank you! Makes life so easy and makes my facebook look professional.

By: Millennium Design

Millennium Design — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 22:39:00 +0000

The reason why it appears blurry is that… when you start making the cover with photoshop “only if you us ps :p” the pixels per inch ammount is low. It is like 20 pixels per inch… All you need is to increase that ammound to 500 or even 1000 and the image won’t be blurry anymore

By: Jon Loomer

Jon Loomer — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:33:00 +0000

In reply to Cristian.

Cristian — I was very thorough with this, so it looks like Facebook made a change (which wouldn’t be a surprise). I just double checked, and it appears that the distance from the top of the cover photo to the padding above the profile photo is now 211px, not 210. The distance from the bottom of the cover photo to the top of the profile photo is now 104px, not 105px. I’m showing that the other distances are correct.

I’ll update. Thanks for letting me know!

By: Cristian

Cristian — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:09:00 +0000

In reply to Jon Loomer.

I just want to point out that I have (using these dimensions) made a cover photo/profile picture combo that actually is quite a bit out of the pixel dimensions you state! On my attached image you can slightly see the area underneath the PP square from the cover photo to the right and left. In addition, the top of the profile picture is quite a bit further up, cutting off any image I had under it. (the image attached should show a white border of two blocks used in the image all the way around, which it still does on the cover photo, but is cut off by the PP placement).

I say this with confidence, as what I made was pixel perfect, I urge you to test it with colour blocks for easy identification possibly and maybe update this post?

Thanks man, I enjoy reading your stuff anyways though :)

By: Sad Clownfish

Sad Clownfish — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 16:06:00 +0000

I’ve been using a profile picture that was perfectly blended into the cover photo. But with the new resizing, is that still possible? I’ve been playing around in Photoshop for a while now, but I haven’t been able to do it correctly yet. Is it just not mathematically possible, considering the way it shrinks then enlarges the image?

By: Rich Mistkowski

Rich Mistkowski — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 03:36:00 +0000

Thanks for the great information. I appreciate it!

By: Jon Loomer

Jon Loomer — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:58:00 +0000

In reply to Agem.

Hi, Agem. The 180×180 pixel profile photo is shrunk down to be 160×160. With the 5 pixel buffer, the profile photo area is 170×170.

Hope that makes sense!

By: Agem

Agem — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 08:46:00 +0000

In reply to Jon Loomer. Excelent Job! Thanks!Just one correction, if the 23px are correct, 658px must be 648px to fit :)

By: João dos retratos no Retratex

João dos retratos no Retratex — Tue, 22 May 2012 15:33:00 +0000

As an admin of FB pages, I also got this problem when FB rolled out the update in April. It messed up the design I did for blending with the cover for a client of mine.

By: Scot

Scot — Sat, 19 May 2012 17:36:00 +0000

In reply to Kathryn. So nice when people take the time to post specifics on issues like this. You are my internet hero. Thanks.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 18 May 2012 18:45:00 +0000

Thanks!

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Sun, 06 May 2012 01:55:00 +0000

no matter what size banner image I upload to my facebook fan page – it doesn’t size right. It’s all blurry and too large. I made it exactly the size of 851×315 pixels. don’t know what to do.

By: Jon Loomer

Jon Loomer — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:02:00 +0000

In reply to KateC.

Oh, man, you’re right. Bad math on my part. It’s 105 pixels from the bottom to the top of the profile photo.

Thanks for pointing it out and sorry for any trouble the miscalculation may have caused!

By: KateC

KateC — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:29:00 +0000

In reply to Jon Loomer.

I’m having the same trouble as Maroshmobil. Using your dimensions, 210px from the top of the cover image to the top of profile border, plus 115px from top of profile border to the bottom of the cover image is 325 px, but you say the overall cover height is only 315px – so does that not mean it’s 10px out somewhere?

Sorry if I’m missing something obvious, I’m something of a novice to working on things like this.

By: Bret

Bret — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:30:00 +0000

Thanks for the Info! Really nice of you to post it!

By: Jon Loomer

Jon Loomer — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:52:00 +0000

In reply to Maroshmobil. The 115 pixels measurement is to the top of the profile photo border, which is 5 px above the top of the profile photo itself. Is that what you mean? That measurement would actually be 110 px.

By: Maroshmobil

Maroshmobil — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:39:00 +0000

Ithink that 115px is not correct it is smaller.

By: Vicki Lynn Harshbarger

Vicki Lynn Harshbarger — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 04:05:00 +0000

THANK YOU!