The LinkedIn profile banner size
LinkedIn recommends a background banner of 1584x396 pixels for personal profiles - a wide 4:1 strip behind your photo. Upload a photo the wrong shape and LinkedIn stretches or crops it, and your profile photo and name sit over the lower-left, covering part of it. This tool creates an exact 1584x396 banner so it looks sharp and nothing important is hidden.
How the resize actually works
Your image loads into an HTML canvas element directly inside your browser, and the resize happens there using JavaScript running entirely on your own device - nothing is ever uploaded. Depending on the mode you choose, the canvas either crops your image to exactly fill the wide 1584x396 strip, blurs a copy of your image to fill the space around a centered fitted version, or fills that space with a flat color, before the browser generates the final downloadable file.
Crop to fill or fit
- Crop to fill covers the whole wide strip and trims the top and bottom - best for a broad landscape or a repeating pattern.
- Fit (blurred edges) shows the whole image centred with a soft blur on the sides - useful for a logo or graphic you do not want cropped.
- Fit (colour) places the image on a solid colour, a clean corporate look.
Why the profile photo overlap matters so much
Because your circular profile photo and name consistently overlap the lower-left portion of the banner on every viewer's screen, that specific region is effectively unusable for anything you actually want seen - text or logos placed there will be partially hidden behind your own profile elements regardless of how the rest of the banner looks. Designing around this known overlap from the start, keeping meaningful content toward the upper area and the right side, produces a banner that looks deliberate rather than one where your own profile photo accidentally covers your best design work.
Leave room for your profile photo
Your round profile photo and your name overlap the lower-left of the banner, so keep text and key visuals in the upper area and toward the right. Start from an image at least 1584 pixels wide so it stays crisp on large screens. A LinkedIn Company Page cover is a different size (1128x191), so use Custom dimensions in our Resize Image tool for that specific size. Everything runs on your device - nothing is uploaded and there is no watermark.
Who actually needs this, and why
Professionals and job seekers wanting a polished LinkedIn profile banner that reflects their personal brand, field, or current role. Consultants and freelancers using the banner space to display a tagline, service offering, or contact information without it being hidden behind their profile photo. Anyone who's uploaded a banner to LinkedIn only to find their photo or name blocking something important, and wants a version designed around that constraint from the start.
Private and free
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Why a wide, short strip is harder to fill well
A 4:1 aspect ratio is noticeably wider and shorter than most photos are naturally composed for, which means a straightforward crop from an ordinary photo often leaves awkward negative space or cuts off more than you'd expect. A naturally wide image - a panoramic shot, a cityscape, an abstract pattern designed with this exact ratio in mind - tends to translate far more cleanly into this banner shape than a typical portrait or standard landscape photo would.
Designing content specifically for a professional context
Since LinkedIn is a professional networking platform, banner content tends to work best when it reflects that context directly - a relevant industry background, a subtle brand color scheme, a tasteful graphic related to your field or role - rather than a personal vacation photo or casual snapshot that might read better on a more informal platform. The Fit (colour) mode in particular suits this professional tone well, since a clean solid background behind a logo or simple graphic often looks more polished than a busy photo competing for attention with your profile photo and headline text.
The separate Company Page banner size
It's worth knowing that LinkedIn uses a different, shorter banner size specifically for Company Pages (1128x191) rather than personal profiles, and mixing up the two produces a banner that doesn't quite fit correctly on whichever page type it's actually uploaded to. If you manage both a personal profile and a Company Page, keeping track of which size applies to which avoids a mismatch that's easy to make but also easy to avoid once you know the two sizes differ.
Privacy and working on a phone
Because nothing is ever uploaded, this tool runs the same way on a phone's browser as on a desktop, making it a convenient way to prepare a banner directly from your device right before updating your profile, with the image never leaving your own device throughout the entire resize and download process from start to finish.
Checking your result before publishing
Before setting the finished banner live, it's worth viewing your own profile to confirm the overlap zone actually looks the way you expect - text and logos that seemed fine in isolation can occasionally sit closer to the profile photo overlap than planned, and catching that before publishing is simpler than fixing it after colleagues, recruiters, or connections have already seen it live on your profile.
Starting from a high enough resolution
Since the output is 1584 pixels wide, starting from a source image at least that wide keeps the result sharp on large desktop screens, where most viewers will actually encounter your profile banner in the first place before ever scrolling down to see the rest of your profile's actual content.
Keeping a saved copy
Saving the original source image separately from the finished banner makes it easy to produce an updated version later, without needing to search for or recreate a source photo from scratch each time your role or branding changes.