A Quick Guide for Social Media Image Sizes

Do you know the recommended sizes for images on Facebook, Instagram or Pinterest? You’ll want to optimize your visual content on social media sites by using each platform’s recommended dimensions. This week’s Resource of the Week will help you create content that looks good on each platform.

Learn more below.

Each week, I share helpful resources across my social profiles to help small business owners and solopreneurs keep up with social media marketing, and optimize it for their business.

What you’ll find in this weekly blog post:

(1) Resource of the Week
(2) Other Must Read Articles from the Week
(3) Tips & Updates on all-things Social Media

(1) Resource of the Week

Social Media Image Sizes: A Quick Reference Guide for Each Network | Hootsuite

Using the right sizes for your images on each social platform is important to make the most out of your posts, and it can be challenging keeping up with changes.

So you can use this helpful resource as a reference when you’re creating/editing images for top sites like:

Instagram
Twitter
Facebook
LinkedIn
Pinterest
Tumblr
Google+

Also, keep in mind that many photo editors and apps have templates available for standard image sizes plus the option to create your own templates for custom sizes.

A few of my favorite tools include:

PicMonkey (desktop and mobile)
Canva (desktop and mobile)
Stencil (desktop)
Pablo by Buffer (desktop)
Typorama (mobile)
WordSwag (mobile)

and I just tested Hootsuite’s Enhance mobile app mentioned in their post.

All but PicMonkey also give you access to free stock photos that you can use without attribution. PicMonkey lets you upload your own images.

Creating eye-catching visuals can be time-consuming, so test a few tools, find the ones you like, and then put a system in place to manage your content creation.