What is Banner Image?

The banner image is the wide graphic across the top of your profile, sized 1584 by 396 pixels. It is the biggest visual surface LinkedIn gives you, and most members leave it as the default texture, which quietly wastes prime positioning space. One layout fact governs every good banner: your circular profile photo overlaps the banner's lower-left area, and interface elements crowd the edges differently across devices, so critical text or imagery placed on the left or at the extreme edges gets covered for some viewers. Compose the important content toward the center and right and it survives everywhere. Good banners state positioning at a glance, meaning what you do, who it is for, and a proof point, a relevant setting, or a product shot, with type kept large because the banner displays small on phones. Skip inspirational stock skylines that say nothing. The banner checker previews your image with the photo overlay in place, so you catch covered content before you upload rather than after a colleague mentions it.