LinkedIn Banner Profile Cropper
Stand out to recruiters and peers. Crop your cover photo visually so it fits flawlessly behind your LinkedIn profile picture.
Last updated: August 2026
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LinkedIn recommends a cover image of 1584×396 pixels, as JPG or PNG under 8 MB. That works out to exactly 4:1 — a strip four times wider than it is tall, which is a far more extreme shape than almost any photo you own. Nothing you shoot is 4:1, so the crop is not a formality here: you are choosing a narrow horizontal band out of a normal photograph, and most images simply do not have one.
The second complication is that the banner is never seen on its own. Your profile photo sits over its lower-left area, and LinkedIn layers your name and headline nearby, so a meaningful part of the left-hand side of whatever you crop is going to be covered. LinkedIn does not publish a pixel figure for that overlap — the numbers circulating for a "safe zone" come from third-party posts rather than its help documentation — so the reliable approach is compositional rather than numerical: keep anything that must be read out of the lower-left region entirely, and put it right of centre.
That leads to a simple test for whether a photo can become a banner at all. Cover the left third of the image with your hand and look at the horizontal strip that remains. If the picture still says something, it will crop well. If everything interesting was in the part you just covered, or is stacked vertically, choose a different source rather than fighting the ratio.
How to crop a photo to LinkedIn banner dimensions
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Add your background photo
Drop it into the box above. The image is processed by your browser and never uploaded — relevant when the photo is from an office, an event, or anything not yet public.
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Set a custom 4:1 frame
Use the free-form frame and pull it to a wide, shallow band matching 1584×396. Because the ratio is fixed arithmetic, any 4:1 selection is correct — you can crop larger than the recommended size and resize down afterwards.
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Compose to the right
Slide the band so the subject sits centre-right. The lower-left is where your profile photo and name land, so treat that corner as unavailable rather than as space to fill.
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Crop, then size it
Download the 4:1 strip. If you want to land exactly on 1584×396, pass the result to Resize Image for LinkedIn Banner — cropping first and resizing second keeps the detail.
Pro tip: Pick a photo with genuine empty space in it rather than a busy one you admire. Banners that work are usually a texture, a horizon, a wall, or a shallow-depth-of-field background — images that survive being reduced to a strip and having a third of them covered. A detailed group photo or a portrait almost never survives a 4:1 crop, because the ratio removes the top and bottom of everything. Judge candidates on whether they contain a good band, not on whether they are good photographs.
Troubleshooting: If your banner looks soft after uploading, the crop was smaller than 1584×396 and LinkedIn scaled it up — take the 4:1 band from a larger original instead. If part of your design is hidden, it is sitting under the profile photo or the name block in the lower-left; move it right rather than shrinking it. If LinkedIn refuses the upload, check the format and file size against JPG or PNG under 8 MB, which is the only hard limit it publishes. And if the image looks squashed rather than cropped, it was resized into 4:1 dimensions instead of cropped to them.
Building out the rest of a professional profile? Crop Image for CV/Resume covers the portrait side, and Crop Image to Square (1:1) is the frame for the profile photo that sits on top of this banner. Other wide covers work the same way — Crop Picture for Facebook Cover is a different ratio with the same overlap problem. For any other shape, Crop Photo to Custom Aspect Ratio and the full Crop Image tool handle it.
Frequently asked questions
What size is a LinkedIn banner?
LinkedIn recommends 1584×396 pixels for the profile cover image, supplied as JPG or PNG under 8 MB. That is a 4:1 ratio. Cropping to 4:1 at any resolution is correct — you can crop larger and scale down, which gives a sharper result than cropping small and scaling up.
Where does my profile photo cover the LinkedIn banner?
Over the lower-left area, together with your name and headline. LinkedIn does not publish exact pixel bounds for this, and the "safe zone" figures circulating online come from third-party articles rather than LinkedIn's documentation. The dependable approach is to keep text and logos out of the lower-left and place them right of centre.
Why does my LinkedIn banner look blurry?
Almost always because the uploaded image was narrower than 1584×396 and LinkedIn enlarged it to fit. Cropping does not cause blur — enlarging does. Crop the 4:1 band out of the largest version of the photo you have, and only then reduce it if you need a smaller file.
Can I crop a portrait photo into a LinkedIn banner?
Technically yes, but the result is rarely usable. A 4:1 band taken from a vertical photo keeps a narrow horizontal slice and discards most of the image, so the subject is usually cut through. Backgrounds, landscapes and textures crop far better into this ratio than portraits do.
Is my photo uploaded when I crop a LinkedIn banner here?
No. Cropping runs entirely in your browser on your own device — nothing is uploaded, stored, or logged. That matters for banners in particular, which are often photographs of workplaces, events or products that are not public yet.
Looking for the full-featured version? Open the main Crop Image tool.
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