LinkedIn displays profile photos as a circle cropped from a square upload. Here's how to size yours correctly before you upload.
LinkedIn crops your profile photo into a circle automatically, but it still uses the full square image behind the scenes — for the background blur effect, and if you ever download or share your original upload. Cropping and resizing to a clean square yourself, rather than letting LinkedIn's auto-crop decide, keeps your face properly centered.
Open Squeezr and drop in your headshot.
Turn on Resize, unlock the aspect-ratio lock, and set width and height to 400 × 400.
Choose Crop mode and check the preview — Squeezr crops from the center, so make sure your face is roughly centered in the original photo first.
Export as JPG at 85–90% quality — a profile photo benefits from slightly higher quality since it's small and viewed up close.
Upload directly to LinkedIn — no further cropping needed.
Skip the manual math — open Squeezr with this preset already dialed in.
Open Squeezr preset to 400×400 →LinkedIn's upload tool expects a square image and will letterbox or awkwardly crop a non-square photo automatically. 400×400 pixels is large enough to stay sharp on retina displays but small enough to upload instantly — LinkedIn compresses further on their end regardless.
Squeezr's Crop mode always crops from the center of the image. If your subject isn't centered in the original photo, it's easier to first crop the photo roughly square yourself in any basic photo app, then run it through Squeezr for the exact 400×400 resize and compression pass.