Set a Photo to the Facebook Cover Photo Size (820×312)

A Facebook Page uses several image placements, each with its own size and ratio: the cover photo is 820×312, the avatar is 180×180 and a shared image is 1200×630. The panel below opens on the cover photo size — switch placements with a single card click.

Facebook cover photo size and the other placements

Placement	Target size	Ratio
Page cover	820 × 312	about 2.63:1
Profile picture	180 × 180	1:1
Group cover	1640 × 856	about 1.92:1
Event banner	1920 × 1005	about 1.91:1
Shared image / link preview	1200 × 630	about 1.91:1
Story	1080 × 1920	9:16

The cover and avatar are the smallest things on the page and also the most seen. Uploading at the size they are actually displayed avoids a second compression and a second crop.

Why covers keep getting cropped

Facebook displays the cover at different ratios on desktop and mobile. At 820×312 the desktop layout shows all of it; the mobile layout narrows it and the outer edges disappear. Keeping faces and text in the horizontal middle keeps both views safe.

The panel below defaults to Pad: the whole photo fits inside the 820×312 frame and the empty sides are filled with a blurred copy, so nothing is lost. To cover the frame instead, switch to Fill — it crops the extra edges and always keeps the centre.

How to resize a Facebook cover

1. Drop your image into the box below. The target is already set to 820 × 312 with Pad selected.
2. Pick another placement if you need one. Avatar, group cover, event banner, shared image and Story sit on the same row; choose Custom to type your own width and height.
3. Keep everything or cover the frame. Pad keeps the whole photo and blurs the empty sides; Fill crops the extra edges instead.
4. Download the result. For a batch, drop them all in and take one ZIP.

Three common Facebook image mistakes

• Pushing cover text to the edge. The mobile layout trims the sides, so keep important text toward the middle.
• Uploading a non-square avatar. The circular crop distorts a wide image, so crop it to 1:1 before uploading.
• Using the wrong shared-image ratio. Anything other than 1.91:1 gets cropped, and the half that matters may be the half that goes.

If the file is still too heavy

Resizing fixes the pixels, not the weight. Facebook re-compresses whatever you upload, and a lighter file uploads faster, so run the result through the image compressor. For ratio-based work rather than exact pixels, use the general resize tool. A Story or Reel needs a 9:16 canvas instead, so resize for Instagram runs the same one-click flow, and 1920×1080 covers event banners and widescreen covers at a fixed frame.