1. Choose your non-negotiable detail
Before adjusting anything, identify what a viewer must see: a face, a product, a complete headline, or a relationship between two objects. That is your visual anchor. Decorative background is usually more flexible.
Start with the widest original you have, at its original resolution. If the source is already tightly cropped, a different output shape may have no room to move. A crop tool cannot restore content outside the original image.
2. Compare the extremes first
Load your image and look at Vertical 9:16 and Wide 16:9. These very different frames make conflicts easier to spot. In Crop mode, move the horizontal and vertical focus sliders until your anchor stays visible. Then inspect Portrait, Feed, and Square.
Each shape remembers its own focus, framing mode, and background color in this tab. Select a shape and adjust it without changing the others. Use “Copy this framing to all shapes” for a common starting point, or enable “Sync future framing changes” to adjust them together. Undo restores the previous adjustment, including an accidental copy to all shapes.
3. Trade cropping for breathing room
Crop fills the output and removes image area outside the frame. Fit keeps the entire source, with your selected color in the unused space. Fit is useful when a headline runs edge to edge or several subjects must stay together.
For example, a centered 1600 × 1000 source cropped to a square keeps a 1000 × 1000 region: 37.5% of the source area is outside that frame. This is geometry, not a verdict on the design. A smaller crop percentage can still cut off the one detail that matters.
If neither mode feels intentional, revise the original layout. Move the headline inward, simplify the composition, or make separate cover designs. Forcing one image into every shape is not always the best result.
4. Check the file you will actually publish
- Read every word in the smallest preview. Check faces, hands, product edges, and logos for awkward cuts.
- Watch for the enlargement warning. More exported pixels do not create more source detail.
- Download the comparison sheet for a quick side-by-side review, then inspect the individual exported images at normal viewing size.
- Check the destination app's final preview. Feeds, profiles, devices, and placements may display the same file differently.
| Preset | Ratio | Export pixels |
|---|---|---|
| Portrait | 3:4 | 1080 × 1440 |
| Feed | 4:5 | 1080 × 1350 |
| Square | 1:1 | 1080 × 1080 |
| Vertical | 9:16 | 1080 × 1920 |
| Wide | 16:9 | 1280 × 720 |
These are the tool's output sizes, not a list of mandatory or exclusive platform requirements.
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