Patreon Image Sizes: Profile, Cover & Post Dimensions (2026)

Patreon profile picture size

Patreon recommends a square profile image of 1024x1024 pixels, and the file must be 16MB or less. It follows you everywhere on the platform — your page, your posts, comments, and member emails — so it is the single most-seen image you upload. Note that you can only change it on the Patreon website; the mobile app has no option for it.

• It carries the whole page in the app. The Patreon mobile app shows your profile photo instead of your cover image, so if most of your traffic is on a phone, this is your banner.
• Upload a square. A non-square file gets cropped to 1:1, and you have less control over what survives than if you crop it yourself first.
• It renders small. Next to a post or comment it is a few dozen pixels wide. A face or a bold mark reads; a detailed illustration with fine text does not.
• Keep the 1:1 family consistent. Patreon suggests using one size across all your square slots — profile picture and collection covers at 1024x1024 — so the set looks deliberate.

Patreon cover image dimensions

For the current page editor, Patreon recommends a cover photo of at least 2500x1000 pixels — a 2.5:1 letterbox — saved as JPEG or PNG at 3MB or less. That file cap is the part people miss: a 2500x1000 photo exported as PNG will usually blow past 3MB, so export photographic covers as JPEG and save PNG for flat-color artwork.

Patreon’s own design advice is to put your key visuals in the right half of the frame and avoid text, because your page title and About section are laid over the left side. After you upload, the editor lets you drag the corner handles to crop before you publish — but starting at the right ratio means the crop is a nudge, not a rescue.

• 2.5:1 and 4:1 are not the same shape. If your page still uses the legacy 1600x400 hero, a cover built at 2500x1000 loses its top and bottom to the crop. Keeping the essentials inside a centered 4:1 band lets one file serve both.
• Phone visitors may never see it. The Patreon app shows your profile photo in its place, so don’t put anything load-bearing — a call to action, a schedule, a price — only in the cover.
• Don’t duplicate your page title. It is already rendered over the left of the image in a font you don’t control, and two versions of your name fighting for the same space looks like a mistake.
• Design it at the target size. A 2500x1000 canvas in your editor of choice — see Canva image sizes for how to set a custom canvas — beats scaling a 4K export down and hoping it lands under 3MB.

Resize an image to 2500x1000 → Or grab the blank cover template above and design straight onto it.

Patreon post image sizes

Your post feed displays images in 16:9, so Patreon recommends 1920x1080 pixels for both image posts and images placed inline in a text post. Any other ratio still uploads fine — it just shows bars on the sides in the feed, which is the single most common reason a Patreon post looks unfinished.

Whatever you upload, the feed renders it no wider than about 1080 pixels. Members who click the image see it expand to your original upload, so a larger file is not wasted — it just doesn’t help the thumbnail. Patreon calls 1500–2500 px wide the safe band for anything you save for the web.

• Video thumbnails are 1280x720. The same file works as a YouTube thumbnail, which is handy if you post the same video in both places.
• Attach the high-resolution file. Post images are optimized for the web, so if patrons are paying for print-quality art, add it as an attachment — uploads go up to 2GB per file, attachments up to 5GB, and you can add as many as you like.
• Pick one ratio per post. A gallery mixing 16:9 and 4:5 images makes the feed jump as members swipe through it.
• Selling elsewhere too? Product shots have different rules — see Etsy listing image sizes if the same artwork ends up in a shop.

Patreon thank-you page image

The thank-you screen a new member sees the moment they join is Patreon’s welcome note. You write it under Dashboard → Page details → Welcome notes, either one note for everyone or a different one per tier (free members included), and you can drop an image into the body of it. If you add a custom welcome video, it appears above the note.

Patreon does not publish a separate dimension for welcome-note images. They render as message-body images, so the inline post image size — 1920x1080, 16:9— is the right target. The same note is also sent to the new member as a confirmation email, so the image needs to survive being read on a phone: keep type large, and don’t hide anything essential in fine detail.

• One image per tier is the point. Per-tier notes let a $20 patron see something a $3 patron doesn’t — a preview of the benefit they just unlocked does more work than a generic thank-you graphic.
• Leave it blank and Patreon fills it in. An empty welcome note falls back to a default Patreon message, so a plain note with one good image is a clear upgrade.
• Don’t put the password in the picture. If the note carries a discount code or a link, put it in the text where it can be copied — image text can’t be.