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Resize & Crop

Change dimensions, crop, rotate and flip images. All 5 tools are free, with no sign-up and no watermark.

About resize & crop

Resizing changes how many pixels an image contains; cropping changes which part of it you keep. They solve different problems and are often confused. If a photo is the right subject but too heavy for a web page, resize it. If it is the right size but the subject sits off to one side, crop it.

Aspect ratio is what keeps the result from looking stretched. Set one dimension and let the other follow, unless you have a deliberate reason not to. Going the other way — enlarging a small image — cannot add detail that was never captured; the pixels are interpolated, so the result looks soft. Start from the largest original you have.

The social media resizer exists because every platform crops differently, and an image that looks right in a preview can lose a head at the edge once posted. Rotate and flip round out the set for photos that came off a phone in the wrong orientation.

Resize & Crop — frequently asked questions

Roughly twice the size it will display at, so it stays sharp on high-density screens, and no larger. An image shown 600 pixels wide is well served by an 1,200-pixel file. Anything beyond that is bandwidth the visitor pays for and cannot see.