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  1. Thank you so much for this! I was getting so annoyed with trying to simply upload my facebook group banner! Now I finally have it placed properly and visible on all devices! 🙂 🙂 🙂

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  2. Hi Louise, i delete & create a new FB group. I´ll use your template. Hope it fits well 🙂 By the way, FB sucks, change things and don´t answer any doubt from anyone.

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  3. Thank you! I was able to use your provided template as a guide and it worked well! I apprecieate your help by providing this template and the useful information!

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  5. Thank you Louise – I have just spent about 3 frustrating hours trying to get our group photo to fit and, having tried a number of different dimensions, finally found yours – which are the only ones that are correct! Much appreciated and many many thanks.

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  7. I used it today and it worked well. I played around with it a bit to make sure I would have enough room on the left for mobile and my font is big. You have no idea, or maybe you do.. how important it is to have big font. I can look down at my phone and immediately be able to see and read my group page name. It’s awesome. Thank you so much.

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  9. Using your template but still having issues. I even changed my dimensions in Photoshop to what you have and every time I try to upload my image it looks bigger and looks nothing like what I saved. Even placed my picture over the template and saved it but still same problem.

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  10. I have created several different size mastheads, according to all the specs I’ve read here, in Photoshop Elements, saving them as jpegs with the sizes noted in the file name. When I try to upload one to my Facebook Group cover photo, almost all of them import at exactly the same size (one imported really small). I’m so frustrated, I don’t know where to go with this.

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    • Carolyn, I’m not really sure how to help.

      You can only upload one cover photo. It will show at different sizes and croppings on different devices. This is what the template hopes to show.

      Does this explain it better? I’m not sure if you’re trying to upload different sized images. You can only have one cover photo per group.

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  11. Hi Louise,

    Using canva.com, I created a FB Group Cover photo with dimensions 1640 x 859.

    Unfortunately even after I compressed the photo using FastStone Photo Resizer 3.8, the .jpg file ended up being 440kb, which somehow doesn’t seem to be able to upload to the Group Photo.

    I’m very new to web/graphic design, have just been running a new FB group for ME/chronic fatigue syndrome.

    The web site URL below is just the current FB group (without the new Group Cover Photo).

    Any info that you could provide would be much appreciated.

    Kind regards,
    CFS Brisbane

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    • Don’t know what the problem is. I just uploaded a 1.5MB image as a group cover photo. Are you getting some kind of warning message?

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    • I’m perplexed by what you mean by “too large.” Part of it is getting cropped off on desktop that’s not as I’ve indicated on the template? It still works for me but I’d love to know where the problem is. FB is even providing a similar template now!

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    • Hey Brandon,

      Those sizes have been recommended by Facebook for PAGES but it does not work for groups, and it doesn’t even work well for Pages because it doesn’t work for desktop AND mobile.

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  14. This is way off. The image is way too large. Are you sure this is for a Facebook Group Cover photo? (Not a Facebook Page Cover?) 784 x 250 is what Facebook last says, and that’s entirely too large. I tried your dimensions and it’s not correct either. What are some of us missing here?

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    • There’s no such thing as a too-large image. It will be scaled to fit on different devices. It’s all about the aspect ratio. Have you seen how many people have used this and said it works? It works.

      Also, the width is what Facebook themselves say. Their height doesn’t work for mobile though. That’s what this post is about… a cover photo that works for both.

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  16. Bonjour Louise, bonjour à tous.
    J’ai lu et relu toutes vos instructions, mais je n’arrive toujours pas à avoir la bonne dimension de l’image de mon groupe.
    J’ai tout testé, mais je ne trouve pas. Pouvez vous m’aider, je travaille sur ordi.
    Merci beaucoup.
    L’image la mieux adaptée 1500×753 mais la hauteur est coupé en haut et en bas de l’image 🙁

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    • As far as I can see, these dimensions still work. It’s always possible that Facebook is rolling out changes to some people and not others. Nothing I can do about that.

      Be sure to look at your cover photo on desktop AND mobile. Don’t forget that most FB use is from mobile, so we have to come up with a solution that works for both. Something will be cropped on either one or the other.

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  19. This no longer seems to work I have tried all of the variations you suggested, think FB might have changed it again! Its so frustrating that they can’t leave things alone.

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  20. Rob, Facebook have moved away from “fixed position images” … so that’s really what’s created all this mess. It’s still very vague, but most people are now opting for 1920×1080 (standard video HD) and it’s all about scalable ratio 16:9. So, yes, it does seem insane, but it’s about achieving a failsafe canvas which can downscale for all desktop/laptop/notebooks/tablets and smartphones … that’s the backbone to all this mess!!!

    I have since created a new template which is based on a 1920×1080 Canvas, where I am simply placing a letterbox boundary for important text/banner elements … so essentially, it’s simply the backdrop which is sized at 1920×1080, with the focus being on allowing plenty of space from edged, particularly top/bottom text margins within your banner.

    Hope this helps?

    Kind Regards,
    Cal

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  21. Are you insane? Your template takes up the entire page on my laptop screen!! I don’t think that is what is meant by “cover” photo. It’s not supposed to cover everything else on the screen!!

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    • No, it’s not supposed to cover your screen, you’re supposed to open it in an image editing program. Sorry you’re finding it so challenging. Perhaps rereading the instructions in the post will help shed some light on it.

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  23. I appreciate all the input which people are providing here – we may as well stick together, while Facebook leaves us all out in the cold to figure things out by ourselves.

    Now, regardless of which dimensions are labelled optimal or what people are coming up with themselves, I am seeing more reference to the whole 16:9 approach, where people are going with 1920 x 1080 as the standard HD scalable ratio. So …. is it absolute madness to design a template for a Facebook Group with such a large canvas, or am I going mad completely bonkers over this end?

    Kind Regards,
    Cal 🙂

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      • Hey Louise, thanks for the info above. I will agree with Beney – the height is somewhat off. I made my over all frame the size listed above (1640 x 921) and my “content” of image only 662 px tall, and FB was still cutting off the top. For my design, I was able just to bump it down into the whitespace, probably about 100px or so (just eyeballed but can go look) and that got it close enough to use. Seems like they’ve messed with things again.

        This was on desktop.

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  30. Trial and error got us there but very annoyed with FB for not making this a lot clearer.

    Thank you Louise for the direction and help and Merry Xmas.

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  33. Hi Folks!

    I can’t speak for older smartphones, but this approach works for my clients on Tablet, Notebook/Laptop and Desktop PC.

    1500 x 783 … 80 pixels letterbox, with 688 pixels in height, so basically showing a letterbox with a slightly deeper band at the bottom.

    As many of you say, a lot of angry people out there, as FB do this kind of thing on a whim, with no professional levels of notification. After all, with the money they make, surely they could build a simple update notification into their main website toolbar, for the entire world to see??

    All the best.

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      • You’re very welcome Louise!

        I should clarify, when I mention 80 pixels letterbox, I should have expanded in saying “80 pixels from the top, with a height of 688 pixels thereafter (all within an overall canvas dimension of 1500 x 783.

        Again, you never know when Facebook will change things, so even with “semi-guaranteed” dimensions, it’s still a good practice to place text areas (or crucial graphic elements) well within your preferred container template!

        Kind Regards.

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  34. Thanks for this! I found 1920 x 1080 was perfect for FB in both mobile and desktop leaving space at the bottom to account for the group name.

    That change in dimensions is so frustrating but glad you could give some help!

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  35. Thank you for the template. I try to make my Facebook Group Banners using Canva.com.
    However, I am having a problem first because their suggested size doesn’t fit well on my groups anymore. I found your template but this group, for example, doesn’t show either Group Name or sub-title under the 230 px clear for type. What am I doing wrong?
    facebook.com/groups/brasileirosdamelhoridade/

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    • Sorry, I can’t tell. As I’m not in your group it may look different to me. Also the large type only shows on mobile.

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  36. Just remember to change the template from indexed color to RGB. Don’t know why the template is in indexed. ** sigh **

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    • I always save flat color images as PNG for better quality and smaller file size – but I hadn’t thought to alert people about the color mode. So thanks for the heads up, and you’re welcome for the template!

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  38. Thank you for the template! I just wanted to chime in that if you have a long FB Group title that shows up as more than one line on mobile, you’ll need to leave even more space on the bottom to account for that.

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  39. I was going nuts trying different sizes for my group cover photo after Facebook changed the dimensions. Your template did the trick first time. Thank you. Thank you.

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  40. Thank you for the template! I just wanted to chime in that if you have a long FB Group title that shows up as more than one line on mobile, you’ll need to leave even more space on the bottom to account for that.

    Trial and error, as always…that’s what graphic design is all about, I suppose!

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  41. Thank you Louise for your article here, I now know that I am not alone. Nevertheless, I am at my limit here with FB’s ‘Group Banner’. I have tried 296×90, 300×150, 400×150, 450×150, 493×150, 600×200, 784×239, 800×150, 821×250, 821×334, 851×315, 1200×400,1250×400, 1640×720, 1640×856, 1640×921; and all are being over-stretched or over-sized by FB, I can only re-position it left & right, yet it is still too tall. What did FB do to my older, pristine, heavily edited, beautiful ‘Group Banner’ – HeLp !? 11/29/17

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    • FB cover photos, no matter what size or shape you use, are going to crop on one device or another. I recommend using the mobile proportions as I detailed in the post, allowing space at the bottom for the type overlay, and positioning it on desktop to cut that part off. The old cover photo size isn’t coming back.

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      • Part of the top is also not visible. I made my own template, using the 1640 x 856 size and it works well on my notebook computer.

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        • How does it look on mobile though? Remember that the vast majority of users are viewing via mobile.

          And yes, part of the top will be cut off if you don’t reposition it. Depends on how you want it to look, but the amount cut off on desktop is such a close match to where the type overlays on mobile, it almost seems intended to work the way I show in the template.

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  42. Thanks Louise but I still can’t get the new dimensions right. it is driving me nuts. I manage a few groups and all of them are distorted and no matter what I do I can’t get the banners right at this time.

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    • By distorted – you mean Facebook is resizing your images non-proportionally? I haven’t seen this occur. Email me a screen shot?

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    • I added instructions to the post. But if your design program doesn’t have either layers or guidelines, just create your image to the recommended size and follow my templates for areas you need to keep clear of type or important elements.

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  44. Thank you for that! The cover photo for the group I managed changed in front of my eyes the other day. I wasted a lot of time looking for an answer and then trying to figure out what the new size is. Nothing from Facebook. They are really starting to drive me crazy, not approving ads, no response to inquiries about that etc.

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  45. I heard from Mari Smith today that the group photo size should be: 1920×1080 pixels (16:9 ratio). I haven’t tried it yet, but wanted you to be aware!

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    • Yes, that’s what works for mobile, thanks for confirming! Without the template you won’t know where the type goes or it crops on desktop. Not sure why FB has to make them different 😉

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      • I only noticed this last week that my group cover image was appearing enlarged. After several attempts to find a current size I came across your page. Because my cover consists of a photo plus a logo and text I tried at least 6 times to make a cover image that worked based on the dimensions in this article. It was either too large, couldn’t be re-positioned, or cut off part of the image on the top. The following is what finally worked: Total size: 1640 x 856. Keep a margin of at least 100 pixels at the top (no text) because that gets cut off by Facebook’s blue navigation bar. Leave bottom margin of 186 pixels blank of text and image (I left mine with a simple background color). That should work for smart phones although the FB app on my phone puts text all over the darkened cover image.

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        • Interesting. I wonder if different FB accounts are seeing it differently. I have no other explanation for why some people say my template is perfect, and others say it doesn’t work!

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  46. When creating group photos should we follow the same guideline for desktop/mobile viewers? It’s so frustrating for me when I create a graphic that looks great on PC only to find my information cropped off when I view it in my fb app.

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    • I think we need to keep any text or vital elements away from the sides. If I get a chance I’ll test it for dimensions, but that won’t be real soon, sorry.

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  47. Louise,
    First, thank you for so freely sharing this hard-won information! I’m sure it will become a much referenced resource for me. I came upon your site via a Google search for guidelines to correctly size a picture to be used as the header of a Facebook Group page (you know, the first thing anybody will see). The recommendation of 801 x 250 pixels results in a very distorted picture and I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong. My group will be a very small group indeed; single purpose page providing an exchange forum for those of us ‘nerds’ who collect the Wade porcelain ‘whimsies’ given as premiums by Red Rose Tea. (See what I mean?) I still want to do a quality job and any advice you can provide would be most helpful. Thanks in advance for your time and attention.
    Sincerely,
    Kimberly Cline

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    • I haven’t been able to find any reliable info on this. It sounds to me that what people see on desktop vs mobile vs Group app (I didn’t even know there was such a thing!) varies greatly.

      My best suggestion is to start out with a larger photo for better resolution, and if you have a PNG files, that would probably give you the best result.

      Your cover photo doesn’t appear distorted to me, just low resolution.

      Good luck! I’d love to hear how it works out.

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      • What is the correct size for a Facebook Group photo at the top of the page. it’s been fine for years up until recently.

        Look at this…. facebook.com/groups/VancouverHotRods

        No matter what size I make the photo…it turns out like this…I’ve tried so many including yours with no luck. Thank you

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        • Sorry this didn’t work for you. It actual looks perfect to me, so I can only conclude that some people have a different view. FB changes always take a while to roll out to everyone.

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  50. Creating a facebook group cover photo can do wonders for your page. It can provide a face or picture to associate with your business. Knowing how to do this right is very helpful. Thanks for sharing.

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