Resize an image to Facebook profile cover size.
Facebook's profile cover photo uses a wide, short ratio that's easy to get wrong - a normal photo cropped to this shape often ends up cutting off the subject's head or losing key details.
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Try Free Resume Builder Try Free Invoice BuilderAt 820x312px, a Facebook cover is over 2.5x wider than it is tall - photos with a centered subject and simple background translate to this ratio far better than a portrait-oriented shot, which will lose most of its height in the crop.
Facebook adjusts the visible crop slightly between mobile and desktop, but 820x312px is the standard upload size that covers both reasonably well.
Not well - a tall portrait-oriented photo loses most of its vertical content when cropped to this wide, short ratio.