Instagram Image Resizer

The portrait size takes up more of a phone screen in the feed than a square, which is why many people use it for photos. Stories and Reels covers fill the whole screen.

Pick a preset and the preview becomes a canvas of exactly that size. Your image is first fitted inside it whole, without cropping, and any empty space is filled with white. From there you can:

• zoom with the slider or the mouse wheel to fill the frame (this crops the edges that fall outside);
• drag the image with a mouse or a finger to choose which part stays in view;
• turn the image left or right in 90 degree steps;
• press Fit Image to return to the whole image centred.

The export is rendered at the preset's full pixel size from your original image, not from the smaller preview, and saved as a WebP file at quality 0.92.

With the Story / Reel preset, a shaded strip at the bottom of the preview marks the area where the app's reply bar and buttons usually sit. It is a guide only and is not drawn into your image. Keep faces and text above it. The toggle hides it if it gets in the way.

A wide landscape photo has to give something up in a square or portrait frame. Either keep the whole photo and accept white bars above and below (the default fit), or zoom in to fill the frame and drag to choose the part that matters. For a series of landscape shots, consistent framing usually looks better on a profile grid than mixing both approaches.

• Format: the download is WebP. If a platform or scheduling tool rejects WebP uploads, convert the file with WebP to JPG.
• Background: any area your image does not cover is white. To use a coloured background instead, zoom in until the image fills the frame.
• Metadata: EXIF data, including GPS location, is not included in the exported file.
• Platform compression: social networks usually re-compress uploads. Exporting at the preset size avoids an extra resize on their side, but the final quality is still up to the platform.

The preset sizes above are the values built into this tool. Platforms change their layouts and recommendations from time to time, so if an upload looks cropped unexpectedly, check the platform's own help pages for the current size and use the Crop tool and Image Resizer to match it.

The image is positioned and exported in your browser. It is not uploaded to Image York, and nothing is posted to Instagram for you.