Resize for linkedin profile picture (400×400)
LinkedIn profile photos upload square (400 × 400 pixels minimum) and display as a circle, so center-crop keeps your face centered.
Updated · Published by Novpix LLC
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Images are processed on your device and never uploaded.
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Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded
How it works
- 1Drop your headshot in. A photo cropped from mid-chest up gives the most usable framing.
- 2It is scaled and center-cropped to a 400 × 400 square — LinkedIn's minimum recommended size.
- 3Picture the circular mask before uploading: the corners are hidden wherever your photo appears in the feed or search results.
Frequently asked questions
- How closely should a professional headshot be cropped?
- Roughly from mid-chest up, with the eyes in the upper third of the frame. That crop is recognisable at the very small sizes LinkedIn uses in search results and message lists, while still looking composed at full size. A full-body photo fails the small-size test immediately.
- Does LinkedIn crop my photo to a circle?
- It masks the square you upload to a circle for display, so the corners are stored but not shown. Framing with a little space around the head keeps the mask from clipping the top of your hair or the edge of a shoulder.
- Is 400 × 400 large enough?
- It is the minimum LinkedIn recommends, and it comfortably exceeds every size the photo is actually displayed at. Uploading a much larger file mainly means LinkedIn does more downscaling on its side; starting at 400 keeps that step under your control.
- Are photographs of me processed on a server?
- No. The crop and the compression run inside your browser tab, and the download is produced on your device. For a photograph attached to your professional identity, that is a meaningful difference from a tool that uploads first and processes later.
About this tool
A LinkedIn profile picture is uploaded as a square and displayed as a circle, and it appears most often at sizes small enough that only the crop matters. Search results, message lists and feed comments render it at a few dozen pixels, so a headshot cropped from about mid-chest up — eyes in the upper third — is what stays recognisable. A photograph taken at a distance simply does not survive the reduction.
The circular mask adds a second rule: leave a little space around the head. The corners of your square are stored but never shown in normal use, and a crop that is too tight loses the top of the hair or the edge of a shoulder to the mask rather than to your framing decision.
Four hundred pixels is LinkedIn's recommended minimum and comfortably more than any display context requires, so there is nothing to gain from uploading a much larger file — it only moves the downscaling to their side. This tool scales your photo to fill the square, crops evenly from the centre, and compresses the result inside your browser. Nothing is uploaded here, and your original file is left exactly as it was.