The latest articles on DEV Community by BananaFast (@bananafast). https://dev.to/bananafast https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4199575%2F013be82a-c155-434d-9bb0-368fe646a0bd.png https://dev.to/bananafast en BananaFast Thu, 22 Oct 2026 19:35:41 +0000 https://dev.to/bananafast/image-size-cheat-sheet-for-2026-social-shops-email-visa-photos-3jpb https://dev.to/bananafast/image-size-cheat-sheet-for-2026-social-shops-email-visa-photos-3jpb <p>If you build sites or apps, you keep looking up the same numbers: how wide an Instagram post is, what X does to a header, how small a visa photo has to be. Here they are on one page. Every number comes from the platform's own help pages.</p> <h2> Social media </h2> <div class="table-wrapper-paragraph"><table> <thead> <tr> <th>Image</th> <th>Size (px)</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Instagram feed post</td> <td>1080 wide, 1080 × 1080 to 1080 × 1440</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Instagram / Facebook story</td> <td>1080 × 1920</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Facebook Page profile</td> <td>320 × 320 (shown as a circle)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Facebook Page cover</td> <td>851 × 315</td> </tr> <tr> <td>X profile photo</td> <td>400 × 400</td> </tr> <tr> <td>X header</td> <td>1500 × 500 (up to 60 px cropped top and bottom)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>LinkedIn profile background</td> <td>1584 × 396</td> </tr> <tr> <td>LinkedIn Company Page cover</td> <td>1512 × 256</td> </tr> <tr> <td>YouTube thumbnail</td> <td>3840 × 2160 (min 640 wide)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Pinterest pin</td> <td>1000 × 1500</td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div> <h2> Online shops </h2> <div class="table-wrapper-paragraph"><table> <thead> <tr> <th>Marketplace</th> <th>Size</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Etsy</td> <td>2000 px or more on each side</td> </tr> <tr> <td>eBay</td> <td>at least 500 × 500, about 1600 × 1600 recommended</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Shopify</td> <td>2048 × 2048 for square images</td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div> <h2> Attachments </h2> <div class="table-wrapper-paragraph"><table> <thead> <tr> <th>Service</th> <th>Limit</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Gmail</td> <td>25 MB per email</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Outlook.com</td> <td>25 MB per email</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Discord (free)</td> <td>20 MB per file</td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div> <p>Email encoding adds about a third, so aim for roughly 18 MB of photos in Gmail and 14 MB in the Outlook desktop app.</p> <h2> US visa photo files </h2> <div class="table-wrapper-paragraph"><table> <thead> <tr> <th>Photo</th> <th>Size</th> <th>File</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Visa (DS-160 / DS-260)</td> <td>square, 600 to 1200 px</td> <td>JPEG, 240 KB or less</td> </tr> <tr> <td>DV lottery</td> <td>exactly 600 × 600</td> <td>JPEG, 240 KB or less</td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div> <p>The full sheet, with a source link on every row, profile-photo notes and FAQs, is here: <strong><a href="https://bananafast.com/guides/photo-size-cheat-sheet" rel="noopener noreferrer">Photo size cheat sheet for 2026</a></strong>. I update the date at the top whenever a platform changes its numbers.</p> <p>If you need to hit one of these sizes, <a href="https://bananafast.com/resize-image" rel="noopener noreferrer">BananaFast's resize tool</a> does it in the browser, so nothing is uploaded.</p> webdev design socialmedia