Resize and crop images

Resize scales your image without changing its shape. Need a different shape entirely? Switch to Crop. Nothing uploaded here ever leaves your browser.

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Resizing vs. cropping: What’s the difference?

Yes, cropping an image changes its size. But resizing is something else altogether. Let’s take a look at the differences and how they work together to make your images look their best, no matter where they’re going.

Resizing scales your entire photo

Resizing scales your entire photo

When you resize a photo, its contents don’t change. The entire image grows or shrinks, keeping its relative dimensions, shape, aspect ratio, and subject matter completely intact.

Cropping trims your photo’s shape

Cropping trims your photo’s shape

Sometimes, you need a rectangular image to fit in a square frame. Cropping cuts away excess space from the sides of your photo so it fits into the shape you need without stretching or warping the image.

Resizing and cropping prevent stretching

Resizing and cropping prevent stretching

Dragging the corners and edges of a photo to change its size can stretch and distort faces and objects. Resizing keeps your original ratio, and cropping trims the edges so everything stays to scale.

Common questions

No. Resizing and cropping both happen entirely on your device. Nothing you convert is ever transmitted or stored elsewhere.

Making your image smaller with the Resize tab won’t make it blurry. Making it larger, on the other hand, can blur details since you’re not actually adding any more data to the image. You’re simply expanding what’s already there.

The Resize tab won’t change the actual shape of your image. It only changes the size. If you switch to the Crop tab, though, you can trim away part of the image so it fits the shape you need.

Yes. When you choose a fixed aspect ratio for your image like 1:1, 4:5, 9:16, or 1.91:1, you can enter either the height or width and the other dimension will adjust automatically for you.

You can also enter both dimensions manually by setting the aspect ratio to Original.