Free LinkedIn Banner Maker
A LinkedIn banner is 1584 by 396 pixels, and your profile photo covers its bottom-left corner. You can see both of those here before you download anything.
Your image never leaves the browser, and the file downloads on the first click.
Nothing is in the way.
The shaded regions are approximate. They never appear in the file you download.
The web fonts did not load, so the preview and the download both use the backup face. They still match each other.
JPG, PNG or WebP, up to 10MB. It is read in your browser and never sent anywhere.
1584 by 396 pixels. No watermark.
The banner gets them to stop. The posts are what keep them.
Oiti learns how you actually write, from your own posts and the things you believe, then drafts LinkedIn posts that read like you typed them. Scheduling and analytics are in the same place.
7 days free.
How the LinkedIn banner maker works
Three steps, and no account at any of them.
- 1
Pick a background
Take one of the eight presets, click a colour trio in the palette grid, set the background colour by hand, or upload your own photo. A dot, grid or line pattern can go over any of them. On an upload, move it, zoom it, and darken it until your text reads. Your browser does all of that. The image is never sent anywhere.
- 2
Add your text
Four lines: a headline, a role, a website and an email. Each one has its own switch, so turn off what you do not want and the rest recentres. The website and the email sit on one row. Pick a font pairing, the three colours, and left, centre or right. Right keeps your words clear of where the profile photo lands.
- 3
Check both previews, then download
The desktop and phone mock-ups sit under the canvas. Shaded means covered. If a line runs into the shading the tool says which one, so you can move it before you download the file at the size LinkedIn asks for.
LinkedIn banner size and dimensions
Plenty of banners look wrong for one boring reason: they were made at the wrong size, and LinkedIn stretched or cropped them to fit. Here are the numbers.
| Spec | Personal profile |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 1584 x 396 pixels |
| Aspect ratio | 4:1 |
| File types | PNG or JPG |
| Maximum file size | Under 8MB |
Every row comes from LinkedIn's own help article on the profile cover image.
If you need a company page cover, start at LinkedIn's image specifications for Pages. The cover there is a different shape with a smaller file cap, so a design made for a personal profile will not transfer without repositioning.
Upload something under 1584 pixels wide and LinkedIn scales it up, which is where the soft, blurry look comes from. Upload the wrong ratio and it crops, usually top and bottom, which is how carefully placed text ends up half cut off.
This tool exports at the numbers above, so there is no resize step afterwards.
What your profile photo actually covers
Two things happen to a banner once it is on a profile, and neither is visible in an ordinary image editor.
Your profile photo sits on top of it. The avatar overlaps the banner near the lower left, so anything you put there is hidden behind your own face. That is why the standard advice everywhere is to keep text centred or pushed right.
Phones crop the sides. A phone screen is narrower than a 4:1 banner, so LinkedIn trims the left and right edges to fit. Text that sits comfortably near an edge on a laptop gets sliced in half, and plenty of the people reading your profile are on a phone.
The shaded region in the previews marks both, and it is drawn larger than anything anyone can measure, on purpose. LinkedIn changes its layout by screen size and does it without announcing anything. Treat the shading as a keep-clear zone rather than a boundary. Stay outside it and the banner reads the same everywhere.
What to put on a LinkedIn banner
A banner has room for about one sentence. The useful question is which sentence.
- Say what you do, plainly. Your name and a specific role. Not "passionate about innovation" but "I write B2B SaaS case studies". Specific beats impressive.
- One piece of proof. A number you will stand behind, or the thing you built. One fact stated flatly beats three vague ones.
- One instruction, if you want one. If people should read your newsletter, say that and nothing else. A banner with one job does it better than a banner with three.
You can also use a photo and say nothing. A clean shot of your workspace or your city, no text on it, beats a crowded banner most of the time and takes a minute. Skip the wall of skills, the logo grid, the phone number in eight-point type, and the stock handshake.
How to put your banner on LinkedIn
- Open your profile and click the pencil on the banner at the top.
- Choose Change photo and pick the file you just downloaded.
- LinkedIn offers a crop and reposition step. At 1584 by 396 there is nothing to do, so leave it.
- Save, then open your own profile on your phone. That is the view that catches mistakes.
Once the profile is done, the headline generator handles the line under your name, and the text post formatter handles the posts.
Frequently asked questions
- Is this LinkedIn banner maker free?
- Yes. The download works on the first click, with no account and no email in the way. Oiti sells a paid product for writing and scheduling LinkedIn posts, and this tool exists because the people who need a banner usually need that too. It is not a trial of anything.
- What size should a LinkedIn banner be?
- 1584 by 396 pixels for a personal profile, a 4:1 ratio, PNG or JPG under 8MB. That is LinkedIn's own recommendation and it is what this tool exports, so there is nothing to resize afterwards.
- Why does my banner look different on my phone?
- A phone screen is narrower than a 4:1 banner, so LinkedIn crops the left and right edges and anything near an edge can disappear. The phone preview here shows that crop while you are still designing, which is the point of having it.
- What part of the banner does my profile photo cover?
- The lower-left area, on a personal profile. Whatever you put there sits behind your own photo. Keep text centred or right, and use the shaded overlay to see roughly where the edge is.
- Can I upload my own photo as a background?
- Yes. Upload it, frame it with the position and zoom sliders, then pull the darken slider until your text reads. Your browser does all of it and nothing is sent to a server, so nothing leaves your machine.
- Do I get a watermark?
- No. The file is yours, clean, at full resolution.
- Does a good banner actually help?
- It is the biggest thing on your profile and one of the first things a visitor sees, so it is worth getting right. It cannot carry the profile on its own, though. If the headline is vague and the feed is empty, a good banner will not paper over that.
Beyond the banner
A good banner gets someone to stop. What keeps them is what you post afterwards, and that is the part most people run out of energy for. Oiti drafts those posts from your own writing, schedules them, and shows you what they did.
7 days free.