Resize a photo for LinkedIn
Three steps. Crop to a square, set the LinkedIn target, download the file ready to upload.
Upload your photo
Drop a JPG, PNG, WebP, or iPhone HEIC onto Sukat’s drop zone. HEIC works directly — useful if your professional headshot came off an iPhone or a recent corporate photoshoot.
Crop to 1:1 at 400×400
Click Crop and pick the 1:1 preset. Leave a small margin around your face — LinkedIn renders the square as a circle, so a tight crop clips your hairline. Then set Target Width to 400.
Set 100 KB and download
Type 100 in the Maximum File Size field with KB selected. Choose JPEG or WebP as the output. Click Convert & Download and upload the result from LinkedIn’s Me → Profile photo.
Where the LinkedIn photo actually shows up
LinkedIn renders the same upload at half a dozen different sizes — nearly all of them smaller than 400×400. A pre-compressed 100 KB file lands sharper at every surface.
- Profile photo on the main feed. The marquee surface — rendered as a circle inside a 400×400 square at the top of your profile.
- Recruiter and hiring-manager search results. LinkedIn surfaces your photo at a much smaller size in candidate search lists — the cleaner the source, the less likely the platform’s re-encoder mangles small details.
- LinkedIn Recruiter inbox previews. InMail and recruiter outreach lists render thumbnails next to your name; recruiters scan them faster than they read.
- Commenter avatars on posts. Every comment you leave on a post or article carries this photo at a small avatar size next to your name.
- LinkedIn Sales Navigator thumbnails. Sales Navigator’s lead lists and saved-search views use the profile photo as the primary identifier at small sizes.
- Embedded LinkedIn cards on third-party sites. When your LinkedIn page is embedded on a blog, newsletter, or speaker bio, the rendered card pulls your profile photo — pre-compressed input keeps it readable there too.
- Notifications and connection requests. Mobile-app notifications and connection-request cards both render the photo at thumbnail size, where compression artefacts are most visible.
Built for the 400×400 LinkedIn slot
Resizing to LinkedIn’s actual rendered dimensions — not the 8 MB maximum — is the whole game.
Hits 100 KB at 400×400 precisely
LinkedIn renders the profile photo at 400×400. Anything larger gets resampled by LinkedIn’s encoder — and that resample is what introduces the visible blur. Sukat lets you set the target dimensions and the KB ceiling together, so the file you upload matches what LinkedIn actually serves.
Square-crop tool built in
Most photos arrive at 3:2 or 4:3 from a camera. Sukat’s Crop tool includes a 1:1 preset so the square crop happens before compression — no round trip through a separate crop tool. The circle overlay shows you what LinkedIn will mask out.
WebP or JPEG output
LinkedIn accepts both. WebP usually looks sharper at the same KB target, but JPEG is the safer default if you ever export the file elsewhere. Sukat lets you switch with one click.
HEIC-aware
iPhone professional headshots are HEIC by default. LinkedIn’s web uploader is inconsistent with HEIC across browsers — sometimes it works, sometimes it silently rotates the image or strips colour. Sukat decodes HEIC in the browser and outputs a clean JPG or WebP that LinkedIn handles uniformly.
Privacy by default
Resize, crop, and compression all run in your browser via the Canvas API. Your headshot never reaches a server — relevant when the photo carries EXIF and GPS metadata you’d rather strip before posting publicly. Verify by switching to airplane mode after the page loads; the conversion still works.