Professional Headshot Dimensions for Every Platform

Every platform has specific requirements. Here are the exact dimensions and file specs so you don't waste time guessing.

🔵 LinkedIn

LinkedIn is the most important platform for most professional headshots.

Profile photo specs:

• Minimum: 400 × 400 pixels
• Recommended: 1000 × 1000 pixels
• Maximum: 20,000 × 20,000 pixels
• File size: Under 8 MB
• Formats: JPG, GIF, PNG
• Display shape: Circular crop

Because LinkedIn displays your photo as a circle, keep your face centered with space above the crown of your head. Tight crops where hair touches the frame edges will get clipped.

👉 See what makes an AI LinkedIn headshot look credible for everything beyond just file size.

LinkedIn headshots explains what else makes a profile photo work at this specific format.

📧 Email Signatures

Email signature photos appear small. You don't need high resolution here, but you do need a clean, lightweight file.

Specs:

• Width: 100–150 pixels
• Format: JPG (smaller file) or PNG
• File size: Under 100 KB
• DPI: 72 (screen resolution)

👉 Keep the file size small. Large images in email signatures slow delivery and cause display issues on some mail clients.

🏢 Company Websites

Website headshots display larger than email or LinkedIn thumbnails, so they need more resolution.

Specs:

• Width: 400–800 pixels minimum
• Shape: Square or 3:4 ratio is most common for team pages
• Format: JPG or WebP
• File size: Under 500 KB

👉 Check with your web team for the exact crop dimensions. Different site templates crop differently and an off-spec photo will look misaligned.

📎 Business Cards

Print is a completely different standard. You need much higher resolution for any photo that goes on a physical card.

Specs:

• Resolution: 300 DPI minimum (600 DPI preferred)
• Color mode: CMYK, not RGB (RGB is for screens only)
• Format: TIFF or high-quality JPG

⚠️ Most AI headshot generators output 72–96 DPI screen images. These are not suitable for print without professional upscaling.

📰 Press Kits and Speaker Pages

Press and speaker use requires the highest quality files, because event organizers and publications will resize as needed.

Specs:

• Width: 1200 pixels minimum
• Resolution: 300 DPI
• Format: JPG or PNG
• File size: 1–5 MB

👉 Provide both a high-resolution version for print and a web-optimized version. Event organizers will thank you.

📱 Social Media Platforms

All major platforms display profile photos as circles. ✅ The safe zone for your face is the center 75% of the frame. Anything near the edges may get cropped.

See professional headshot examples for context on how well-shot headshots translate across platforms. For company team photo standards, see company headshots.

Your headshot should work everywhere without thinking about it. Proshoot delivers high-resolution output that scales cleanly from LinkedIn to print.