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Create professional images for LinkedIn posts, articles, and link shares. Templates sized for LinkedIn's dimensions with polished device mockups and backgrounds.
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Pre-sized for LinkedIn. Pick a template, add your screenshots, and create images that look professional.
LinkedIn images come in several forms, each serving a different purpose for your professional content. The most common is the link preview image — the 1200×627 graphic that appears when you share a URL in a LinkedIn post or article. This is pulled from your page's Open Graph meta tags.
Post images are photos or graphics you upload directly to a LinkedIn post. These can be square (1200×1200) or portrait (1080×1350) and appear in the feed without needing a link. Article cover images (1200×644) appear at the top of LinkedIn articles and in article previews throughout the platform.
LinkedIn's professional audience responds best to polished, branded visuals. A well-designed image with your product screenshot, clean typography, and consistent brand colors signals credibility and authority, leading to significantly higher engagement rates.
Every LinkedIn image type has its own recommended dimensions. Here are the exact sizes.
Link Share
1200×627
URL preview in posts
Single Image Post
1200×1200 or 1080×1350
Square or portrait format
Article Cover
1200×644
Top of LinkedIn articles
Company Page Cover
1128×191
Company page banner
Carousel
1080×1080
Document post slides
Five design principles for LinkedIn images that drive professional engagement.
LinkedIn’s audience expects a higher standard of visual quality. Use clean, refined designs with ample white space. Avoid overly casual or meme-style graphics.
LinkedIn users respond strongly to numbers and results. Include specific metrics, growth charts, or data points in your images to capture attention and build credibility.
Minimalist layouts with clear visual hierarchy perform best. Use one focal point, a bold headline, and minimal supporting text. Less is more on LinkedIn.
Consistent use of your brand colors, fonts, and logo across all LinkedIn images builds recognition. When people see your content, they should immediately know it’s yours.
Images featuring quotes, key insights, or thought-provoking statements perform exceptionally well. Pair a bold quote with your headshot or product screenshot for maximum impact.
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Drag and drop or select any screenshot, design, or image from your device.
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Two capabilities that separate Screenhance from every other mockup tool in 2026: animated exports and App Store screenshot localization.
Template-driven motion — float, reveal, parallax. Export animated mockups at Product Hunt, landing-page, and Twitter/X dimensions. Most mockup tools are static-only.
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See how Screenhance compares to other LinkedIn image tools.
| Feature | Screenhance | Canva | Adobe Express | Figma |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-sized LinkedIn templates | Yes | Yes | Yes | Manual setup |
| Design skills needed | None | Basic | Basic | Advanced |
| Device frames | Yes (40+) | No | No | Plugin required |
| Custom backgrounds | 100+ gradients, glass, mesh | Yes | Yes | Manual |
| Screenshot mockups | Built-in | Limited | No | Plugin required |
| Dynamic text overlays | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Export formats | PNG, WebP, JPEG | PNG, JPG | PNG, JPG | PNG, SVG, PDF |
| Free plan | 3 exports/month | Free tier | Free tier | Free tier |
| Price (paid) | $6/week or $8/month | $13/month | $10/month | $15/month |
LinkedIn’s feed ranking is opaque on purpose, but the post types it rewards are visible in any feed if you scroll for an hour. Native image posts beat link posts. Posts with a single bold image beat posts with three or four images. Posts that get a comment in the first thirty minutes outperform posts that get a hundred likes and no comments. None of this is a secret, but most B2B teams still post links to their blog with a default OG image and wonder why nothing happens.
The strongest signal LinkedIn rewards in 2026 is dwell time on the image itself. If your image is text-dense enough that someone has to stop scrolling to read it — a data point, a quote, a frame from a product UI — the post gets surfaced to more of your network. If your image is a generic stock photo or a pure decoration, the post gets buried even if the caption is excellent. Design the image to earn three to five seconds of eye contact and the rest of the engagement compounds.
The second tell is the link-in-comments pattern. Posting a link in the body of the post tanks reach. Posting a strong native image with no link, then dropping the URL in the first comment, consistently outperforms the link-in-body version by a wide margin. That changes what the image needs to do — it has to carry enough information that the post stands on its own without the link being visible.
Native video and document carousels also beat single images in raw reach, but image posts win on conversion because the click path is cleaner. For a B2B SaaS posting product news, a single bold image with a strong native caption and the link in the first comment is the highest-leverage format. Reserve carousels for educational content where the second slide is the actual payoff.
LinkedIn document posts — the swipeable carousel format that originally hijacked the PDF upload feature — have become a default for B2B thought leadership. They look impressive in the feed, they unlock long dwell times, and they make a single piece of content do the work of five. But they are the wrong format more often than founders think.
Use a carousel when the value of the post is sequential. A nine-slide breakdown of a framework, a step-by-step launch teardown, a comparison of three pricing tiers — these all benefit from the swipe interaction because each slide builds on the last. The reader is rewarded for swiping, and LinkedIn rewards the post for the dwell time.
Use a single image when the value is one strong claim. A product screenshot with a bold headline, a customer quote pulled from a Slack message, a graph showing a single metric moving — these die in carousels because the second slide is anticlimactic. You pulled the reader in with a great first slide and then asked them to swipe to a weaker second slide. The pattern erodes trust quickly.
The wrong choice that costs the most reach is forcing a carousel where one image would do. If slides two through eight repeat the same idea with different wording, the carousel is padding. Ship the single image, write a stronger caption, drop the link in the first comment, and use the time you saved on the next post. Volume of strong single images beats volume of weak carousels every quarter we have measured it.
For link share previews, use 1200×627 pixels. For single image posts, 1200×1200 (square) or 1080×1350 (portrait) work best. Article cover images should be 1200×644. Screenhance templates are pre-sized to these LinkedIn-specific dimensions.
Absolutely. LinkedIn posts with custom images get significantly more engagement than those with auto-generated previews. A professional, branded link preview image can increase click-through rates by 2-3x compared to a generic placeholder.
Yes! While Screenhance specializes in link preview and post images, you can create individual carousel slides at 1080×1080 pixels. Design each slide with consistent branding, then upload them as a document post on LinkedIn.
PNG is recommended for images with text, screenshots, and graphics. JPG works well for photographic content. LinkedIn also supports GIF for post images. Keep file sizes under 5MB for optimal loading. Screenhance exports in PNG, WebP, and JPEG formats.
Use the LinkedIn Post Inspector tool (linkedin.com/post-inspector) to preview how your link will appear. You can also paste your URL into a new LinkedIn post draft. If you’ve updated your image, use the inspector to refresh LinkedIn’s cache.
Yes! Screenhance lets you place your product screenshots inside professional device frames like MacBooks, iPhones, and browser windows. This is perfect for LinkedIn where showing your product builds credibility with a professional audience.
Yes, consistently. LinkedIn's ranking signals down-weight posts with outbound links in the body and up-weight posts with strong native content. The link-in-first-comment pattern lets you keep the image and caption working at full reach while still routing the click. Just make sure the image carries enough of the message to stand on its own — the comment link is a follow-up, not the headline.
Portrait (1080×1350) takes more vertical real estate in the feed than square (1200×1200), which means more dwell time before someone scrolls past. For text-heavy or data-heavy images, portrait wins. For pure product screenshots where the UI is naturally wide, square or landscape preserves the layout better. Default to portrait when in doubt.
Three to five times a week is the sustainable cadence. Daily is too much for most B2B audiences and signals automation. Weekly is too sparse to compound. The exact rhythm matters less than the consistency — pick a frequency you can hold for six months and the algorithm starts trusting your account.
When the content is genuinely sequential — a framework, a step-by-step, a comparison — yes. When you are using a carousel to dress up a single idea, no. The wrong carousel posts feel padded, and audiences have wised up to the format. A single strong image beats a weak carousel every time.
1200×627 pixels. LinkedIn pulls this from the og:image meta tag on your page, so the image you generate has to live on your site at that URL. If your site uses dynamic OG generation, set the size at 1200×627 and let LinkedIn render it natively. Pasting an image into the post body is a different format — that one wants 1200×1200 or 1080×1350.
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