What is a social media image cropper?
A social media image cropper resizes a photo to the exact pixel dimensions a platform displays, so the platform does not crop it for you. Every network re-frames what you upload to fit its feed: Instagram trims anything taller than 4:5, Bluesky pulls a wide image toward 1.91:1, X shows 16:9 before you tap. If you upload a shape the feed does not want, the network picks what to cut, and it almost always picks the middle. Cropping first is how you decide instead.
The part most croppers get wrong is which part to keep. Centring is the obvious default and the wrong one surprisingly often - a portrait cropped to a wide banner loses the head, a product shot loses the product, a screenshot loses the line that mattered. This tool lets you pick the focal point from a nine-point grid, so "keep the top" is one click rather than a manual drag you have to eyeball. The crop is always the largest region of the right shape that fits, anchored where you asked and clamped so it can never run off the edge of the image.
It also tells you what the crop costs. Before you download, the tool reports how much of the original area survives and whether the result is being scaled down or up - because upscaling is the one case where the output will look worse than the input, and no cropper can fix a source that is smaller than the target. Everything runs on a canvas in your browser: the image is never uploaded, never stored, and the page keeps working with the network disconnected.
How to crop an image for social media?
Add your image
Drop a file, click to browse, or paste from the clipboard - a screenshot copied with Cmd+Shift+4 pastes straight in without going to disk first.
Pick the target size
Choose the platform and placement. Each option shows its pixel size and ratio, and a line on where that size is actually used.
Choose what to keep
Use the nine-point grid to anchor the crop. Centring is the default; move it up for faces and headlines, or to a corner for an off-centre subject.
Check and download
The preview is the output, not an approximation of it. Pick PNG, JPEG or WebP and download.
Key Features
Fifteen Platform Sizes
Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, X, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest and Open Graph, each with the ratio and where it is used
Choose the Focal Point
A nine-point grid decides which part survives, so a portrait cropped to a banner keeps the face instead of the shirt
The Preview Is the Output
The same canvas that renders the preview produces the file, so what you download cannot differ from what you approved
Tells You What It Costs
Reports how much of the original area survives, and warns when the target is larger than the source and the result will look soft
Frequently Asked Questions
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