Instagram image resizer
Resize one photo into every Instagram size, and see what your profile grid will cut before you post. Free, and your picture never leaves your browser.
JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF or GIF, up to 40 MB. The file stays on your device.
Lower means a smaller file. 85 is a good place to stay for photos.
Your image is resized by this page, on your own device. It is never uploaded, and nothing about it is stored or sent anywhere. Privacy policy
Your Instagram sizes will show up here
Choose a photo and pick your sizes. Everything happens on this page.
What your profile grid will show
Your post keeps its shape in the feed. Your profile grid shows a 3:4 tile taken from the middle of it, so anything wider than 3:4 loses its edges there.
Choose a photo above and this fills in with your own picture.
How to use it
Choose a photo
A JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF or GIF from your phone or your computer. It opens inside this page. A photo taken sideways is turned the right way up for you.
Tick the sizes and place the crop
Click or drag on your photo to put the crop box over the part that matters — the face, the plate, the truck. Every size you tick uses that same centre, so you place it once. A box that already fills the photo one way only moves the other way.
Check the grid, then download
The grid preview shows the 3:4 tile your profile takes out of the post. Move the crop until nothing you need is in the trimmed part, then download one size or all of them as a zip.
The shapes Instagram accepts
- Landscape post1080 × 566 · about 1.9:1A wide photo you don’t want to crop
- Square post1080 × 1080 · 1:1One picture you reuse everywhere
- Portrait post1080 × 1350 · 4:5The everyday post
- Tall portrait post1080 × 1440 · 3:4The whole picture on your grid
Every Instagram post is 1080 pixels wide. What changes is the height, from 566 pixels for the widest shape to 1440 for the tallest, and taller means more of the feed is your picture.
Instagram keeps a photo as you uploaded it when the picture is 320 to 1080 pixels wide and its shape is between 1.91:1 and 3:4. Outside that it crops the photo to fit, and anything wider than 1080 pixels is sized down. That is why every post size here is 1080 wide.
| Where it goes | Pixels | Shape | File limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portrait post | 1080 × 1350 | 4:5 | 30 MB |
| Tall portrait post | 1080 × 1440 | 3:4 | 30 MB |
| Square post | 1080 × 1080 | 1:1 | 30 MB |
| Landscape post | 1080 × 566 | about 1.9:1 | 30 MB |
| Story | 1080 × 1920 | 9:16 | 30 MB |
| Reels picture | 1080 × 1920 | 9:16 | 30 MB |
| Reel cover | 420 × 654 | about 1:1.6 | None published |
| Profile picture | 320 × 320 | 1:1 | None published |
Every size here was read off a Meta page on September 5, 2026: the post shapes from Instagram’s image resolution article, the reel and the 420 × 654 cover from its reel size article, and the file ceiling from Meta’s ad specs for Instagram. Two things in that table Instagram does not publish, and we would rather say so than pretend. 320 × 320 is the square a profile picture is shown at, not a documented requirement. The file ceiling is Meta’s limit for an Instagram ad image, not for an ordinary post.
The profile grid crop
- Square post1080 × 1080 · 1:1135 px off each side · 25% gone
- Portrait post1080 × 1350 · 4:534 px off each side · 6% gone
- Tall portrait post1080 × 1440 · 3:4Nothing cut
- What your grid showsa 3:4 tile from the middle
- What your grid cutsstill there when someone taps the post
The grid shows a 3:4 tile taken from the middle of every post, while the post itself keeps its full shape when someone taps it. That is why a square post can look trimmed on your profile and fine in the feed.
Instagram publishes the shapes it accepts but not the shape of that tile. 3:4 is what the grid has shown since it stopped being square in 2025, and it matches Meta’s own documentation, where the tallest photo Instagram now accepts is exactly 3:4.
Posting the same picture to Facebook and LinkedIn as well? The social media image resizer does every platform’s sizes in one go, and the safe zone checker shows what each app draws on top of your picture.
The safe area in Stories and Reels
A Story and a reel fill the screen, and Instagram puts its own things on top: your name and the close button along the top, and the caption, the buttons and the reply box along the bottom. Meta asks you to keep text and logos out of roughly the top 14%, the bottom 35%, and 6% down each side — on a 1080 × 1920 Story, 269 pixels at the top, 672 at the bottom and 65 down each side. The Story and Reels previews above draw that shape with a dashed line.
Those are the figures in Meta’s ad specs for Instagram Stories, read on September 5, 2026. Instagram publishes nothing separate for a Story or a reel you post yourself. The buttons on the screen are the same either way, so these are the best numbers there are — treat them as guidance, not a rule Instagram enforces. Older guides say 250 pixels at the top and bottom; that is Meta’s previous, symmetrical advice and it is no longer what the page says.
Common questions
What size should an Instagram post be?
1080 × 1350 pixels, a 4:5 portrait. It is the shape most businesses post and it takes the most room in the feed. 1080 × 1440 is the tallest Instagram accepts and the only post your profile grid shows whole, so use it when the picture matters more than the feed.
Why does my post look cropped on my profile?
Your profile grid shows a 3:4 tile taken from the middle of each post, while the post keeps its full shape when someone taps it. A 1080 × 1080 square loses about 135 pixels off each side there, and a 4:5 portrait about 34. Instagram publishes the shapes it accepts but not the shape of that tile; 3:4 is what the grid has shown since it stopped being square in 2025.
What happens if my picture is a shape Instagram doesn’t accept?
Instagram crops it to fit. It keeps a photo as you uploaded it when the picture is 320 to 1080 pixels wide and its shape is between 1.91:1 and 3:4 — at 1080 wide, a height between 566 and 1440 pixels. Anything wider than 1080 pixels is sized down to 1080, and anything outside that shape range is cropped from the centre, which is why a panorama loses its ends.
Which file type should I choose?
JPG for photographs. PNG for a logo, a flat graphic, or anything with small text in it, because JPG smears hard edges. WebP makes a smaller file than either but some older apps still refuse it, so choose it only when you know what is opening the picture. Meta lists JPG and PNG for Instagram images.
What size is an Instagram Story or a reel?
1080 × 1920 pixels, 9:16, filling the screen. Instagram draws its own name bar, caption, buttons and reply box on top, so Meta asks you to keep text and logos out of roughly the top 14%, the bottom 35% and 6% of each side. On this page the Story and Reels previews draw that shape with a dashed line.
Can I use one photo for a post and a Story?
Yes, but they are different shapes, so the same photo has to be cropped twice. Tick both sizes here and you get both files from one crop. Place the crop on the part that matters and check the Story preview afterwards, because a Story is much taller and takes a narrower slice of a wide photo.
What can this tool not do?
It resizes and crops. It does not post to Instagram, edit colours, remove a background, add words to your picture, or make a small photo bigger without it going soft. It cannot open a HEIC file, and it cannot tell you whether Instagram will compress your picture further after you upload it — that happens on their side.
Can it open a HEIC photo from my iPhone?
No. It uses your browser’s own decoder, and Safari is the only one that opens HEIC. Our free HEIC to JPG converter opens them in any browser and gives you back a JPG you can bring straight back here. To stop making them at all, on your iPhone open Settings, then Camera, then Formats, and choose “Most Compatible”.
Is it free, and does my photo get uploaded?
It is free, with no account and no limit on how many pictures you resize. Nothing is uploaded: your browser opens the file, resizes it and hands the result back to you. The picture never leaves your device, we never see it, and nothing about it is stored or sent anywhere.
Read more in our privacy policy and terms of use.