Resize Photo Online Free

Upload your photo once in the box at the top of this page, then pick where it goes. Two of the methods work inside the editor. The third is a separate tool that does one job and nothing else.

1. Image Resize in the Tools menu

Type a width and height in pixels and the photo comes out at exactly that size. Use it when something specifies a number: a profile picture, a website banner, an upload form that rejects large files. The lock icon keeps the proportions, and the same panel also rotates and flips the photo.

2. Corner handles on the canvas

Select the photo and drag a corner handle to size it by eye. It's the faster choice when the photo sits next to text or other images, and how it fits the layout matters more than its exact pixel count.

3. Quick resize

The image resizer tool skips the canvas. Set the size, resize, download. Choose Quick resize after uploading here, or open the tool directly when you have a whole folder of images to shrink at once.

Not sure which to use? If the resized photo is the finished file, go with Quick resize. If it's one part of a design, open the editor.

Most places that ask for an image care about its size in pixels. An Instagram post is 1080 pixels wide, a YouTube thumbnail is 1280 by 720, and many upload forms reject photos wider than a few thousand pixels. Typing the number is faster and more reliable than dragging until it looks about right.

The lock icon between the Width and Height fields keeps the photo's proportions. With it on, enter one value and the other follows. That works when the target has the same shape as your photo. When it does not, for example a square from a landscape shot, crop the photo to the right shape first, then resize. Unlocking the fields and typing both numbers instead squashes the picture.

It depends on the direction. Making a photo smaller keeps it sharp, because the editor is throwing away detail the smaller size cannot show anyway. A 4000 pixel photo shrunk to 1080 pixels looks just as crisp on a phone screen.

Making a photo larger is different. The editor has to create pixels that were never in the original by estimating them from their neighbours, a process known as image scaling or interpolation, so edges soften and fine detail turns blurry, and the bigger the jump, the more it shows. No resizer avoids this. The practical rule is to keep your largest original and always resize down from it. Our guide on how to resize an image without losing quality goes into the details.