Get Your Social Media Image Sizes Right with Placeit

In this day and age, a business that isn’t taking full advantage of social media is missing out on an opportunity to grow their brand. Having the right images is key to letting your audience know about your company, products, offers and all marketing efforts.

Why Do I Need Images for Social Media?

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To Get Your
Audience's Attention

In the endless scroll of your audience’s timeline, messages and offers can get lost. With images, you’ll have a better chance of getting their attention.

To Follow Your
Brand's Guidelines

Make sure your audience knows who you are from the get go and strengthen your brand by setting clear colors and graphic styles to use in social media.

To Strengthen Your Message

Visual content is a great way to strengthen your message because with it, you can give your audience visual cues which can hint at your message.

To Engage with Your Audience

A lot of what we read is forgotten within a few hours of us reading it. That’s why having visual aids is a great way to help your message be remembered.

How Do I Make Social Media Images?

Browse the thousands of available templates and pick the one that goes with your brand.

Customize it as much as you want with your brand colors, images and text. It’s super easy.

Click download and share your social media images with your audience and start engaging!

What Image Sizes Do I Need?

With Placeit’s Social Media Image Maker take the guesswork out of designing images for your social accounts, all while taking advantage of Placeit’s resource library to the fullest. Remember that using this social media image maker you’ll have the right file, in the right size, every time.

Image Sizes for Facebook

Make a Facebook feed image, ad or cover photo in minutes, just select the graphic and background you’d like to use.

A Facebook Ad or Link should be 1200 x 600 px in size.

The ideal size for a Facebook cover image is 1720 x 630 px.

Facebook feed images are usually squares, the optimal size is 1200 x 1200 px.

A Twitter header size should be 1720 x 630 px.

The best size for a Twitter image is 1024 x 512 px.

Image Sizes for Twitter

Create Twitter banners, cover photos and images to use on Twitter for Business and attract more people to your brand.

Image Sizes for Pinterest

A pin on Pinterest has to be interesting to get your audience’s attention, make sure to use colors that stand out. The ideal pin size is 734 x 1129 px.

Usually, an Instagram Feed post is square and should be 1080 x 1080 px in size.

Instagram Stories should be 1080 x 1920 px.

Instagram Image Sizes

Instagram is the most image heavy of all the social media platforms, make sure your images go with your brand’s guidelines. With these social media image makers you can create an Instagram feed images or Instagram Stories in the right size.

Youtube Image Sizes

One of the most important things to make your videos attractive on Youtube is to have the right thumbnails, banners and end cards.

For best viewing, a Youtube Thumbnail should be 1280 x 720 px.

Your end cards should be 1920 x 1080.

For best viewing, a Youtube Thumbnail should be 1280 x 720 px.

Your end cards should be 1920 x 1080.

Twitch Image Sizes

From offline screens, to panel templates and even starting soon screens. Find everything you need to brand your Twitch channel and become the next big streamer.

Use Your Social Media Images to Stand out
from the Competition

Having social media images that look professional will establish your message. Whatever you message is, it should be clear and concise so it resonates with your audience. Using images can help you achieve this. To make the most out of our social media image makers, make sure to check out out post on best practices when creating Social Media Images for the full information on making the best images possible.

Social media graphics that have text should be clear enough for your audience to be able to read them at a glance.

High contrast images are great for social media because they’re easy to read.

Have your social media images look professional using the hundreds of assets availible on Placeit.

New products, events or promotions will be better recieved and remembered with images.

Create images with pictures as backgrounds, they are royalty free so you don’t have to worry about copyright issues.

Lastly, creating social media images shouldn’t take long, so we’ve created these tools with your time in mind.

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