--- title: "Social Media Image Size Guide 2026 and Free Cropper | Karobar" url: https://karobar.io/tools/social-media-image-size-guide language: en description: "Image and video sizes for Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and LinkedIn posts, Reels, Stories and Shorts, with a free in-browser cropper." --- Free tool # Social media image size guide 2026, with a free cropper The right size for every post, Reel, Story and Short on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and LinkedIn, taken from the rules each network's publishing tools enforce. Then drop in a photo and crop it to the size you need. The social media image size cropper works in your browser; your photo is never uploaded. Sizes by network | Network and format | Best size | What it accepts and limits | | --- | --- | --- | | **Instagram** Feed post or carousel (portrait) | 1080 × 1350 4:5 | Any shape from 4:5 (portrait) to 1.91:1 (landscape). JPEG up to 8 MB, 320 to 1440 pixels wide; carousels 2 to 10 items, all cropped to the first slide's shape. | | **Instagram** Feed post (square) | 1080 × 1080 1:1 | Any shape from 4:5 to 1.91:1. JPEG up to 8 MB. | | **Instagram** Feed post (landscape) | 1080 × 566 1.91:1 | Any shape from 4:5 to 1.91:1. JPEG up to 8 MB. | | **Instagram** Reel or Story | 1080 × 1920 9:16 | Vertical 9:16 recommended. Reels 3 seconds to 15 minutes, up to 300 MB; Story videos 3 to 60 seconds. | | **Facebook** Reel | 1080 × 1920 9:16 | Vertical, at least 540 × 960 pixels. 3 to 90 seconds, 24 to 60 frames per second. | | **Facebook** Photo post | 1080 × 1350 4:5 | Most shapes; portrait 4:5 or square fill the feed best. Up to 20 photos, 10 MB each. | | **Facebook** Story | 1080 × 1920 9:16 | Vertical. Videos up to 60 seconds. | | **TikTok** Video | 1080 × 1920 9:16 | Vertical 9:16 looks best; at least 360 × 360 pixels. 3 seconds to 10 minutes (some accounts allow less), up to 1 GB. | | **TikTok** Photo post | 1080 × 1920 9:16 | Photos are resized to fit 1080 × 1920. 1 to 35 photos, up to 20 MB each; the first is the cover. | | **YouTube** Short | 1080 × 1920 9:16 | Vertical or square. Up to 3 minutes. | | **YouTube** Video | 1920 × 1080 16:9 | Landscape 16:9 for ordinary videos. Up to 2 GB through Karobar. | | **LinkedIn** Photo post | 1080 × 1080 1:1 | Square or portrait work well. 1 to 20 photos; formats other than JPG, PNG or GIF are converted to JPG. | | **LinkedIn** Video | 1920 × 1080 16:9 | Landscape, square or vertical. MP4, 3 seconds to 30 minutes, up to 500 MB. | | **LinkedIn** Document (PDF) | 1080 × 1350 4:5 | A PDF shown as swipeable pages. Up to 300 pages and 100 MB. | How Crop to fillFit with blurred edges Fills the shape and trims the edges, keeping the centre. Preview Choose a photo to see it at 1080 × 1350 Download JPEG Cropped in your browser. Your photo is not uploaded anywhere. ## Where these sizes come from Each network publishes rules for what its tools accept: the shapes, file sizes and video lengths. The table follows the rules Karobar's publishing engine checks before it sends a post, which are taken from each network's own developer documentation. The "best size" is the common 1080-pixel-wide size for each shape, sharp on phones without being needlessly large. ## The three shapes that cover almost everything If you film and photograph with these three in mind, one shoot covers every network. Keep the product and any text inside the middle of the frame, because each app covers the top and bottom with buttons and captions. - Vertical 9:16 (1080 × 1920): Reels, Stories, TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Facebook Reels. - Portrait 4:5 (1080 × 1350): Instagram and Facebook feed posts and carousels. It takes up the most room in the feed. - Landscape 16:9 (1920 × 1080): ordinary YouTube videos and many LinkedIn videos. ## Rules that catch people out - Instagram feed photos must be between 4:5 portrait and 1.91:1 landscape; anything taller is refused. - Every slide in an Instagram carousel is cropped to the shape of the first one. - A YouTube video counts as a Short only when it is vertical or square and up to three minutes long. - TikTok photo posts are resized to fit 1080 × 1920, so wide photos get bars or crops. - Facebook Reels need at least 540 × 960 pixels and 3 to 90 seconds. ## Crop or fit? Crop to fill when the subject sits in the middle and the edges do not matter. Fit with blurred edges when nothing may be cut off, such as a product with text on it or a group photo. It keeps the whole picture and fills the empty space with a blurred copy, so there are no black bars. Planning a month of posts in these sizes? See [How to build a social media content calendar](https://karobar.io/guides/social-media-content-calendar). ## Crop once, post everywhere Karobar checks every photo and video against each network's rules before it posts, and its editor crops, fits with blurred edges, trims and picks covers for you. See [Social Content](https://karobar.io/features/social-content). [Start free trial](https://karobar.io/login?trial=1&login=1)