What format should a LinkedIn profile photo be?
What format should a LinkedIn profile photo be? Today, we are going to discuss what shape, size, and file type your LinkedIn profile photo should be. If you are going to commission a professional corporate portrait photographer to capture your new LinkedIn profile photo, you need to ask the photographer to take your headshots in the following stages. First, you need a high-res headshot at 300 dpi. This is too high a resolution for website usage and too high for LinkedIn, but you can reduce the resolution quickly, and the quality will not suffer. Remember, if you have your new LinkedIn profile photo captured at 72 dpi, it will be ideal for web usage but unsuitable if you want to use it for print or as a hard copy photo. Secondly, make sure the professional photographer understands that you want a wide crop for your headshot. This means you want them to capture you from the waist up so that you can use the headshot on a corporate website where you have much more space to see your headshot. When it comes to LinkedIn, your profile photo is a small format, and therefore, you can crop it to get the right size for your profile photo. Lastly, although your LinkedIn profile photo appears round, i.e. a circular crop on your profile page, you can upload a square headshot as only a professional with quality software will be able to crop your headshot as a circle. So when we are asked, “What format should a LinkedIn profile photo be?” we suggest the three points we have stated but would also suggest that you talk to your professional corporate portrait photographer and get their suggestions on stance ie how you should pose, also on wardrobe and whether you should be smiling or looking more serious as LinkedIn is a business social media.