How to resize an image
- Drop your images into the box, choose files, or paste a screenshot.
- Choose how to resize: by width, by height, to an exact width and height, or by a percentage. The new size shows under the preview.
- Download one image, or all of them together as a zip.
Which way to resize
- Width is the usual choice for the web. Blogs, shops and email newsletters have a fixed column width, so an image that matches it loads fast and looks sharp.
- Height suits images that sit in a row, such as product photos or logos that need to line up.
- Width × height gives an exact pixel size, for wallpapers, thumbnails and upload forms that ask for something like 1920 × 1080 or 400 × 400.
- Percent scales everything by the same amount, which is handy for a batch of photos with different sizes.
Crop, fit or stretch
When the new width and height have a different shape from the original, something has to give. Crop to fill scales the image until it covers the whole area and trims what sticks out, keeping the centre. It’s the right choice for most photos. Fit inside keeps the whole image and fills the leftover space with a border. Shrink to fit keeps the whole image and its shape with no borders, so the result is only as big as the box allows: the usual choice for a size limit such as “no bigger than 1920 × 1080”. Stretch forces the image into the new shape, which distorts faces and circles, so use it only for patterns and textures.
Common sizes
- 1920 × 1080: Full HD screens and desktop wallpapers.
- 1280 × 720: YouTube thumbnails, the size YouTube recommends.
- 1080 × 1080: square posts on Instagram and other social apps.
- 1200 px wide: a safe width for blog posts and email images.
- 400 × 400 or smaller: profile pictures and icons.