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title: Social Media Canvas
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# Social Media Canvas

> Configure platform-specific aspect ratios, safe text zones, caption limits, and file-size…

The single source of truth for every social media canvas dimension in 2026: aspect ratios, safe text zones, caption limits, and file-size budgets across Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, and X. It takes your square master image and transforms it into publication-ready exports per platform without letting UI overlays swallow your headline or CTA.

## Use cases
- Push one master image to 7 platforms cleanly
- Fit a 1024x1024 master into a 1080x1920 Story
- Keep CTAs clear of TikTok's right-column buttons
- Validate carousel slides share one aspect ratio
- Compress images to per-platform size limits
- Strip EXIF metadata before publishing

## Benefits
- Look professional on every platform at once
- Never lose a headline behind a UI overlay again
- Cut re-export cycles by getting dimensions right first
- Speed uploads by hitting each platform's file budget

## What’s included
- 17-canvas platform matrix with machine-readable JSON
- Safe text zone maps for Story, TikTok cover, LinkedIn, YouTube
- 50px safe-zone buffer validator script
- Aspect-preserving fit-and-pad pipeline (no squashing)
- Platform-adaptive compression with WebP fallback
- Carousel consistency check and pre-publish checklist

## Who it’s for
Designers and social teams distributing one creative across many platforms who need every export to land inside each app's real UI constraints.

## How it runs
One master visual, seventeen platform canvases, and a different UI dead zone painted over each. The skill validates safe zones with exact coordinates, transforms without blind resizing, and compresses to each platform's file budget.
1. Looks up each target placement in its 17-canvas platform matrix: exact pixel dimensions, aspect ratio, caption character limit and file-size budget, kept as a single machine-readable source of truth.
2. Maps the UI dead zones each platform paints over the image: the top and bottom 250px bands on Instagram Story, the right 150px button column on TikTok covers, the bottom action bar on LinkedIn feed, the duration overlay on YouTube thumbnails.
3. Validates text and CTA placement against those safe zones with a 50px buffer rule; any element sitting inside a UI zone fails the check with exact coordinates reported.
4. Transforms the square master into each target format with aspect-preserving fit plus padding instead of a blind resize, then verifies the final ratio within a 0.01 tolerance so platforms never auto-crop the content.
5. Compresses per platform budget (4MB Facebook, 2MB YouTube, 10MB LinkedIn, 30MB Instagram) by stepping image quality down until the file fits, failing loudly if it cannot.
6. Runs the final checklist before handoff: all carousel slides share one aspect ratio, EXIF metadata is stripped, captions sit within character limits and the mobile viewport preview has been checked.

## FAQ
### We design one square master image, can it really serve all seven platforms?
That is the core workflow: an aspect-preserving fit-and-pad pipeline carries the square master into each platform's canvas without squashing, and safe text zone maps keep headlines and CTAs clear of UI overlays like TikTok's right-hand button column.

### Aspect ratios are googleable, why a dedicated product?
Static specs go stale and never catch failures. This ships a 17-canvas matrix as machine-readable JSON, a 50px safe-zone buffer validator script, platform-adaptive compression with WebP fallback, and a carousel consistency check, so compliance is verified instead of assumed.

### Does it generate the creative itself?
No. It assumes the image already exists, whether AI-generated or designed, and handles the translation into publication-ready dimensions, per-platform file budgets, and EXIF stripping. Art direction and content sit upstream of it.

## Price
$15, one-time, no subscription. VAT included.

Related guide: [Building a multilingual AI content pipeline](https://forgehouse.ai/guides/ai-content-pipeline/)