Facebook Image Resizer

The 1200 x 630 post size matches the shape commonly used for link preview images, so it is also a reasonable size for the image that appears when a web page is shared.

Pick a preset and the preview becomes a canvas of exactly that size. Your image is first fitted inside it whole, without cropping, and any empty space is filled with white. From there you can:

• zoom with the slider or the mouse wheel to fill the frame (this crops the edges that fall outside);
• drag the image with a mouse or a finger to choose which part stays in view;
• turn the image left or right in 90 degree steps;
• press Fit Image to return to the whole image centred.

The export is rendered at the preset's full pixel size from your original image, not from the smaller preview, and saved as a WebP file at quality 0.92.

A cover is very wide, and Facebook does not show the same slice of it everywhere: phones tend to show less of the left and right sides than desktop browsers, and the profile picture and page buttons overlap part of the image. Keep faces, products and text near the centre, and treat the outer edges as background that may disappear.

• Profile pictures are displayed as circles, so centre the subject and leave space at the corners.
• Stories fill the phone screen; keep important content away from the very top and bottom, where account details and reply controls appear.

• Format: the download is WebP. If a platform or scheduling tool rejects WebP uploads, convert the file with WebP to JPG.
• Background: any area your image does not cover is white. To use a coloured background instead, zoom in until the image fills the frame.
• Metadata: EXIF data, including GPS location, is not included in the exported file.
• Platform compression: social networks usually re-compress uploads. Exporting at the preset size avoids an extra resize on their side, but the final quality is still up to the platform.

The preset sizes above are the values built into this tool. Platforms change their layouts and recommendations from time to time, so if an upload looks cropped unexpectedly, check the platform's own help pages for the current size and use the Crop tool and Image Resizer to match it.

The image is processed in your browser. It is not uploaded to Image York or posted to Facebook.