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Social image resizer
Choose a destination preset and export a correctly sized canvas.
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Resize for social media
Use current common post, story, card, and thumbnail dimensions with cover or contain fit.
Your work stays private in your browser while you use this tool.
What does social image resizer do?
Place one image on an exact preset canvas for Instagram, Stories/Reels, YouTube, LinkedIn, X, or Facebook. Cover fills the canvas by cropping centered edges; contain shows the full source and fills the remaining space with the selected background.
- Input
- An image and the destination format you are preparing.
- Result
- A fitted PNG image at the selected dimensions.
- Price
- Free
- Account
- Not required
How to use social image resizer
Choose your settings
Choose a destination preset and export a correctly sized canvas.
Save or copy
A fitted PNG image at the selected dimensions.
A practical tip
Keep faces and important text near the center because social apps may crop previews differently.
When to use social image resizer
Make a 1080 × 1080 square version of a landscape campaign image.
Fit portrait artwork onto a 1280 × 720 YouTube thumbnail canvas.
Prepare separate 1200-pixel-wide link-preview images for several publishing channels.
Worked example
A concrete social image resizer example
- Input
- A 2400 × 1600 landscape photograph.
- Settings
- Instagram square 1080 × 1080, cover fit, WebP at 86% quality.
- Result
- A 1080 × 1080 WebP using the centered 1600 × 1600 region of the source, so 400 source pixels are cropped from each horizontal side.
What to expect
How it works
Cover compares source and target ratios, selects the largest centered source rectangle with the target shape, and scales it to fill the canvas. Contain scales the entire source as large as possible without cropping and centers it over the chosen background. The finished canvas is encoded in the selected image format.
Know before using
Limits and edge cases
- Cover always uses a centered crop; there is no focal-point control, so off-center faces or text may need the image cropper first.
- The tool exports one preset per run, and platform display crops or recommended dimensions can change; inspect the result in the destination service before publishing.
Common questions
Social image resizer FAQ
Is social image resizer free to use?
Yes. Social image resizer is free to use.
Does social image resizer keep my work private?
Yes. Your work stays private while you use the tool — nothing you enter is uploaded.
Should I choose cover or contain for a social image?
Choose cover when filling every edge matters and some centered edge content may be cropped. Choose contain when the whole source must remain visible and background bars are acceptable.
Can I download every social preset in one batch?
Not in the current workbench. Select and export one destination preset at a time so you can inspect how each aspect ratio treats the composition.