If you’re still having a problem uploading your image, photo or picture to your Facebook profile or page, after reading my previous post “Posting Vertical Pictures, Images or Photos in Your Facebook Profile or Pages“, follow the steps below and you should be all set.

Why am I still getting that error when my image is under 180 pixels wide or 540 pixels high?

I tried to upload my father’s logo (image dimensions 99 pixels wide by 476 pixels high), and it didn’t work! I received the same error as before:

“Upload Failed: Your picture is too tall or too wide. Try to pick something closer to a square.”

So I researched some more and found, in Facebook Help, that profile photos cannot be three times taller, than they are wide:

“If you are having trouble adding or changing your profile picture, please note that you cannot upload a photo if it is more than three times as tall as it is wide.

So, I divided the length of my father’s logo by three and made it that width.

I uploaded it, and it worked! See my father’s Facebook Page here: On Call Auto Service Facebook Page. You can see the white-space where the logo is wider than it was designed. (Edit: I changed his logo to what you see now, but you can view the example I mention here in his Profile Photos album.)

You can view my logo here: My Facebook Business Page

So as long as you keep your image within the above dimensions and ratio, you’ll be all set!

Hope this helps! I have spent days researching this, and spent about 3 hours again yesterday. I’m so happy I found the solution!

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I’ve been going loony trying to upload my logo (200 px by 600 px), and client logos, to our Facebook Pages unsuccessfully. Nothing I tried worked!

I finally found this blog post – Making the most of your Facebook page profile picture – which proved to me that images, picture, photos, and logos with the 200 px by 600 px dimensions, were still being uploaded. There was obviously something some of us were missing, and here it is…

If you’re trying to upload the above dimensions, and are getting this error:

“Upload Failed: Your picture is too tall or too wide. Try to pick something closer to a square.”

It’s because Facebook no longer allows images to be 200 pixels wide by 600 pixels high. The new dimensions are 180 pixels wide by 540 pixels high, which was changed May 3, 2010. You can find this on their developer site, under Developer Roadmap, which states:

“We’re changing the size of the largest profile picture to 180 pixels wide by 540 pixels high (down from 200 pixels by 600 pixels).”

It worked! You can see a sample here: KMBurck Facebook Page

And now, I’m going to relax, knowing that Monday I can upload my client logos without issues!

Please let me know, in the comment section, if this helped or if you need any assistance.

Thank you, and have a GREAT weekend!

Read my follow-up post here: Need To Know How To Upload A Vertical Image On Your Facebook Page Or Profile?