Which Instagram size is actually on the cropper?

Square 1:1 is labeled for an Instagram post, and 4:5 is the portrait. Freeform, 16:9, and Facebook 1.91:1 are the other locks. Stories 9:16 is not a preset. Frame the portrait or the square you can actually lock.

Can I crop a circle or a passport in millimetres?

No. Those are not presets. A circle mask is a collage layout. A passport millimetre box is not on this page. You get a rectangle and a pixel readout of that rectangle.

What quality is the saved JPEG?

JPEG and WebP export at quality 0.92. PNG keeps the cropped pixels without that slider. Open the file at feed size. A second save is how a face turns soft.

My photo is HEIC. Can I crop it directly?

Convert HEIC to JPG at quality 0.92 first. The cropper takes JPG, PNG, and WebP. Keep the HEIC. Crop the JPG, once.

Is /tools/crop-image a different cropper?

It is the same canvas. The guide and the hub are /crop-image. The tools URL stays available and points its canonical tag at the hub. You do not get extra ratios by opening the other address.

Should I compress after the crop?

If the theme or the app is still over its cap, yes, once. The compressor slider starts at 80 and runs locally. Cropping a compressed file again throws away the edges you just placed.

Crop sizes for Instagram

Crop Image for Instagram, LinkedIn, and Profile Photos

Platforms crop you if you do not crop first. Instagram feed, stories, LinkedIn banners, and circular avatars each steal different edges. Convertify4u’s /crop-image (and /crop-image-for-instagram) lets you lock a ratio in the browser when Instant is labeled. The job is composition, not megapixels. A perfectly sharp photo with the chin missing is still a bad profile picture.

Ratios that still matter

Instagram portrait posts often live near 4:5. Square 1:1 is the safe feed citizen. Stories and reels are 9:16 and will hide the top and bottom if you designed a 16:9 YouTube thumbnail. LinkedIn profile is circular on top of a rectangular upload — put the face in the center, not the upper third. LinkedIn banners are wide; do not place the only important text in the right edge where a profile overlap sits.

These numbers drift. Check the live app preview after you upload. Convertify4u gives you a controlled crop; Meta still may letterbox.

Convertify4u crop walkthrough

Open /crop-image.
Instant means the pixels can stay on-device.
Set the ratio before you drag. Dragging freely then “kind of” matching 4:5 is how you get a surprise zoom on mobile.
Keep eyes and nameplates inside a mental safe margin. UI chrome eats edges.
Export. If the file is still huge, /image-compressor once. Cropping does not always shrink bytes if you export a giant PNG.
Keep the uncropped master. Next platform, next ratio.

Eligible everyday crops are free. Batch-resizing a catalog is Pro-shaped work.

Faces, groups, and type

Group photos: the crop that flatters the left person may decapitate the right. Make two crops if you need two avatars. Small type in the image will die at avatar size — put words in the caption.

Passport-style photos have their own geometry; do not use a casual 4:5 selfie crop for a visa form. Use the form’s millimeter rules.

After the crop

Color and compression are separate. Do not crop, screenshot the result, and compress the screenshot. Download the tool’s export.

Stories, highlights, and the chin problem

Story-safe zones hide the bottom behind stickers and the top behind usernames. If the crop is for a story, put the face in the center third, not where a 16:9 video would put the horizon. Profile highlights icons are tiny; a full-body crop becomes a blob. Crop tighter on the product or the face.

LinkedIn banner text should sit left-center. The right side collides with the profile circle on desktop and is cropped differently on mobile. Make two crops if you truly need both a banner and a square post from one conference photo.

Avatars, passports, and the circle mask

Circle avatars hide corners. If the interesting part of the photo is a sign in the corner, it is gone. Center the person. For passport-adjacent crops, read the official millimetre sheet. /crop-image is a rectangle tool with freeform, 1:1, 4:5, 16:9, and Facebook 1.91:1. It is not a visa studio. A circular avatar is the Perfect Circle layout on /collage-maker, which masks the board rather than punching a transparent circle.

Never crop a group into an avatar by cutting through someone’s ear “because the ratio required it.” Pick another frame.

Privacy of portraits

Portraits of other people need consent, especially minors. Instant processing does not grant you the right to post. Convertify4u does not sell photos. Cloud, if used, auto-deletes.

If a ratio preset feels wrong versus what you see in the Instagram draft, /contact with the platform and the ratio you chose. Safaat Rahman Siham will tell you to recrop the master — a screenshot of a stretched preview is not a headshot.

The ratios on the tool, and the ones that are not

Crop image locks five shapes: freeform, square 1:1, portrait 4:5, landscape 16:9, and Facebook 1.91:1. The square is the usual grid post. The 4:5 box is the taller portrait. There is no Stories 9:16 preset, no millimetre passport frame, and no circle mask. A round sticker is a collage layout. A passport plate is a rectangle you measure yourself, then a white field from the background remover if that is the actual job.

Drag the box before you shrink it. Leave hair and hands inside the frame, then export. JPEG and WebP from the crop save at quality 0.92. PNG keeps the pixels of the region. The inputs are JPG, PNG, and WebP. A HEIC from the camera roll should become a JPG first, at the same 0.92, on HEIC to JPG.

The canvas lives at the crop hub. The workspace under /tools/crop-image is the same cropper and is not a second recipe. Use the hub when you are deciding the frame. If the file is still heavy after the crop, the image compressor starts at 80 and stays in the browser. Do not crop, compress, and crop again. The first box was the composition.