Create your image with a 16:9 ratio-to ensure it looks good on retina, create it at 1600px by 900px.So what’s the best way to solve for this issue? This depends on whether you know how the image will be used. The devil is indeed in the details and when you want to present a professional/sharp design to the market, you want it to look spot on. A sloppy image/border on the image can leave a less-than-desired experience for users.
While this may not seem like a big deal to the “casual” observer, this is a big deal to people who pay attention to the details. So neither option adheres to the 16:9 ratio. LinkedIn has equal funkiness as both the Photo post (it crops out the left and right border) and the metadata post (it crops out the same top and bottom border as Facebook and Twitter). However, you’ll notice that the top and bottom border is cropped out when a link is shared with the photo as the featured image, leaving an “odd” looking left and right border.Īgain, we have a perfectly fine photo when shared as a Photo post and that top/bottom border is cropped out when the photo is used as a featured image in a blog and the link is shared. You’ll see when you share the photo as a Photo post it looks fine. This got me to thinking and made me realize it was time to crunch the numbers to find another social media image size to rule them all! First, let’s see how the above image looks on each platform: Twitter However, I started having cropping problems when I used that same image as the Featured Image for a blog recap and it was passed to the social platforms via the metadata. I noticed that when I did a Photo post on Twitter and Facebook the graphic was rendered just fine. It was successful that I decided to add a border for a personal project with my SA Flavor blog for the Twitter chat with the hashtag #satxchat. Check out how the image looks in a feed with a small red border-it’s just enough to set the image apart from the rest of the feed: In fact, we did this quite well for our #moretime campaign at Rackspace. It’s no secret that having a border is a way to make images on social media pop.
SHARING SOCIAL MEDIA META DATA IMAGE SIZE UPDATE
I’ll also challenge my friends at Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to update how the display images, especially in their metadata to really adhere to the ratio they’ve published.
I’ll show you that it’s more like 16:9ish and give you a couple of guidelines to make sure that your images pop without looking silly. Now, they have all shifted to adopt a 16:9 horizontal image… Or at least that’s what they’ve told us! In the past, the image cropping between the “Big Three” platforms of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn was pretty drastic. It’s been a while since I wrote the original post and like all things on social media the dimensions have drastically shifted. Have you ever wondered why your images don’t look right on social? How it always seems that there’s a different social image size for every single social property? And how, even though you follow their published guidelines, your images still look a little off? Wonder no more-this is the second post I’ve made to give you One Social Image to Rule Them All.
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