Pinterest Image Sizes 2026: Complete Guide for Pins, Boards, and Idea Pins

For standard pins, Pinterest still rewards a 2:3 aspect ratio. Upload at 1000 x 1500 pixels and your pin fills the column without getting truncated in feed previews. You can push as tall as 1000 x 2100 (the so-called giraffe pin) but anything past that gets cropped off in the feed and only shows in full when someone taps it. Idea pins are the vertical full-screen format — 1080 x 1920 pixels at 9:16, just like an Instagram Story. Your profile photo should be 165 x 165 (displayed) but upload at 600 x 600 to stay crisp on Retina screens. Board cover images sit at 222 x 150 displayed, so 600 x 400 is a safe upload size.

Pinterest's feed is a vertical mosaic, not a grid. If you upload a square or landscape photo, the feed engine still reserves a tall slot for it and either pads with white space or zooms in until the proportions match. Either way you lose visual real estate. The other crop trap is text overlay. Pinterest's recommended overlay zone is the upper third of the pin — anything below the 60% mark might get clipped in mobile previews when the title and source domain overlay slides up. Keep your headline up high and your branding (logo, watermark) tucked into a corner of the top half.

Start with the highest-resolution source you have. Pinterest re-encodes everything you upload, so feeding it a slightly oversized image (say 1200 x 1800) gives the encoder more data to work with than uploading a tightly-cropped 1000 x 1500. Crop to 2:3 first, then resize the long edge to 1500. JPEG works for photos, PNG only when you need transparency or sharp graphics. Keep file size under 20MB (the upload limit) but realistically aim for under 2MB to keep things snappy. One detail people miss: Pinterest pulls thumbnail previews from the top 60% of the image, so put your strongest visual element in that zone.

Open ToolPic's Image Crop tool and pick a 2:3 ratio for standard pins (or 9:16 if you're making an idea pin). Drag the crop frame to keep your subject in the upper portion, then download. If the result is over 2MB, run it through the Image Compressor — quality 80 usually drops the size by half with no visible change. Both tools work in your browser, so the photo never gets uploaded anywhere. The whole flow takes about 20 seconds, and you can do it on your phone if you're scheduling pins from the couch.