Your LinkedIn banner is cropped wrong on half the phones that see it

The Size LinkedIn Asks For

LinkedIn's own help page asks for a background photo as close to 1584 pixels wide by 396 pixels tall as you can get it, saved as a JPG or PNG under 8MB. That is a 4:1 ratio.

Every export from this tool already matches it, so there is nothing to resize afterwards.

Two things trip people up, and neither is the size. Your profile photo covers the lower left of the banner on desktop.

And a phone renders the whole thing at about a quarter of the width, so type that looked fine in an image editor turns into a grey smudge.

The preview above shows you both before you commit. The circle marks the photo, the phone view shows the real scale, and the readout tells you what size each line lands at on a phone.

If you want the full breakdown, including the company page sizes and what changes on mobile, I wrote that up separately: LinkedIn banner size, and where your profile photo covers it.

How to Use It

• Pick a style, then swap the headline for something a stranger would understand in two seconds.
• Keep the headline under about eight words. A banner is read at a glance, on a phone, by someone who is deciding whether to keep scrolling.
• Watch the circle. Nothing you need read belongs in the lower left, because your own face goes there.
• Switch to the phone view and check the readout. If a line says "too small", it is decoration rather than communication, so cut it or make it bigger.
• Download the PNG, then on LinkedIn open your profile, click the camera icon on your intro section, and choose Edit profile background.

A banner is the smallest lever on your profile. It earns attention that your headline and About section then have to convert.

If the rest of the profile is not doing its job, a better banner just makes a weak page look tidier.

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