Crop Images for Social Media: Every Platform's Ideal Crop
Crop photos to the perfect ratio for Instagram posts, Stories, Twitter cards, LinkedIn banners, and Facebook covers.
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Crop Photos for Social Media: Exact Sizes for Every Platform Every major social media platform has different image dimension requirements. Upload the wrong size and your image gets auto-cropped — often badly. The platform will take whatever portion of your image fits its frame, which might cut off your subject's face, your logo, or the key message in your design. Knowing the exact specs and cropping to them before uploading gives you full control over what your audience sees. Why Platforms Have Different Sizes Each platform presents images in multiple contexts: the feed, the profile page, search results, notifications, ads. Each context has different dimensions. A Twitter/X post image is a wide rectangle in the feed. The same image shrinks to a small square in tweet previews embedded…
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