Resize any image to exactly 1080x1920 pixels. The universal 9:16 vertical size for Instagram Stories, Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Snapchat.
Last updated: July 2026
1080x1920
9:16 Vertical
Fill, Fit, Stretch
Modes
JPEG, PNG
Output
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Dimensions fixed to 1080 x 1920 px for this page.
Scales and crops to fill exact size. No white space. No distortion. Recommended.
Drop image here to resize to 1080x1920
JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, HEIC. All processing stays in your browser.
If your image is smaller than 1080x1920 pixels, the tool will upscale it and show a warning above the download button. For a lower resolution 9:16 option that avoids upscaling smaller sources, try the 720x1280 preset.
Drop or select your image
JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF or HEIC. Dimensions are already locked to 1080x1920.
Choose Fill, Fit or Stretch
Fill crops to cover, Fit pads with white, Stretch forces the exact size.
Choose JPEG or PNG
PNG keeps transparency, JPEG gives a smaller file.
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Change settings and the result updates without re-uploading.
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Common reasons people resize to 1080x1920
1080x1920 is the universal full-screen vertical format. One image created at this size works across nearly every short-form video platform without further resizing.
Instagram Stories and Reels
The recommended size for both formats, filling the screen edge to edge with no black bars or unexpected cropping.
TikTok and YouTube Shorts
Both platforms use the same 9:16 ratio, so content created for Instagram works here without changes.
Snapchat and Facebook Stories
These platforms also follow the 1080x1920 standard, making it a true cross-platform vertical size.
Vertical video thumbnails and covers
Use as a static cover image or thumbnail for vertical video content before publishing.
Need other Instagram sizes too? The Resize for Instagram page covers feed posts, square format and profile pictures alongside the Story and Reel size.
For most of internet history, content was horizontal. Monitors were horizontal, laptops were horizontal, and the assumption was that people sat at desks to consume content. That changed when smartphones became the primary screen. Most people hold their phone vertically almost all of the time. Video and images that fill the full vertical screen feel native and immersive. Content that shows up as a small letterboxed rectangle in the middle of the screen feels like it was designed for someone else's device.
Snapchat was the first major platform to build entirely around the vertical format in 2011. Instagram added Stories in 2016, TikTok launched in 2018, and YouTube Shorts followed in 2020. All of them independently arrived at the same specification: 1080 pixels wide by 1920 pixels tall, a 9:16 ratio. That convergence wasn't coincidental. It's the native resolution of most phone screens at full HD, and it's the size that gives content the most visual real estate without any black bars or wasted space.
Here's something that catches creators off guard the first time. Your image fills the 1080x1920 canvas perfectly, but when you post it, the platform's interface covers parts of it. On Instagram Stories, the username and time sit at the top. The reply field and reaction buttons sit at the bottom. TikTok puts the like and comment buttons on the right side. Text or faces too close to these edges get obscured.
The practical safe zone is roughly the center 1080x1480 pixels of the frame. Anything within 220 pixels of the top or bottom edges is at risk of being covered. Keep faces, text overlays, and any calls to action inside that central area. The background can extend to the full canvas edges since it doesn't matter if that gets partially hidden, but anything the viewer needs to actually see should stay in the safe zone.
If your source image is already roughly vertical, Fill mode works well. It scales the image up to fill the 1080x1920 canvas and crops anything that extends beyond the edges, centering the crop automatically. For a portrait photo taken on a phone, this usually means a small amount of the top and bottom gets cropped, which is generally fine.
If your source image is horizontal, like a landscape photo or a screenshot from a desktop website, Fill mode will crop heavily and may cut out important parts of the image. In that case, Fit mode is the better choice. It scales the image to fit within the 1080x1920 frame and adds padding to fill the remaining space. The padding defaults to white. If you want a different background color behind your horizontal image in a vertical frame, you'll need an editor with canvas controls rather than a simple resize tool.
Using Fill mode on a horizontal source image
Fill crops aggressively to cover a vertical frame, which can cut out important parts of a landscape photo or desktop screenshot. Switch to Fit mode for horizontal sources instead.
Placing text or faces too close to the top or bottom edges
Platform UI elements (usernames, captions, buttons) cover roughly the outer 220 pixels top and bottom. Keep anything important inside the central 1080x1480 safe zone.
Expecting a transparent background from Fit mode
Fit always fills padding with solid white, even for PNG output. If you need real transparency around a horizontal image, a canvas-based editor is needed instead.
Upscaling a small image by a large amount
Going from something like 480x854 to 1080x1920 asks the tool to invent detail that was never in the original. Start from the highest resolution version you have, or try the 720x1280 preset instead.
Assuming you'll get a WebP or AVIF file
Output on this page is JPEG or PNG only. Convert the downloaded file afterward if you specifically need WebP or AVIF.
1080x1920 pixels gives a 9:16 aspect ratio, which fills a phone screen edge to edge with no black bars or cropping. This exact size and ratio is shared across Instagram Stories, Instagram Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Facebook Stories and Snapchat. Content created once at 1080x1920 can be reused across all of these platforms without resizing again.
The tool upscales it to 1080x1920 and shows a warning above the download button once the result is ready. For vertical video covers and Story graphics, upscaling a low-resolution photo can look soft on a full-screen phone display. For the sharpest result, start with a source image that is at least 1080 pixels wide, or try the 720x1280 preset, which needs a smaller source to avoid upscaling.
Exactly 1080x1920. The width and height are locked to this page's preset, so whichever mode you choose, Fill, Fit or Stretch, the output canvas is always precisely 1080 by 1920 pixels.
Most vertical platforms overlay interface elements at the top and bottom of the screen, such as usernames, captions and engagement buttons. A common guideline is to keep important text, faces and calls to action at least 220 pixels from the top and bottom edges of the 1080x1920 canvas, leaving a safe zone of roughly 1080x1480 in the center. This ensures your content stays visible regardless of which platform overlays are shown.
Fill is the default and works well if your source is already roughly vertical, it scales up to cover the frame and crops evenly from the edges, no padding, no distortion. Fit is better for horizontal sources like a landscape photo or a desktop screenshot, since Fill would crop too aggressively, Fit scales to fit inside the frame and adds white padding instead. Stretch forces the exact 1080x1920 size by distorting the image and almost always looks wrong for photos.
Not with Fit mode here, it always fills the padding with solid white, even when PNG output is selected. If you need a transparent background behind a horizontal image placed on a vertical canvas, you'll need an editor with canvas controls rather than this resize tool.
You can upload JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF or HEIC. The output is JPEG or PNG only, there's no WebP or AVIF export on this page. If you need a smaller WebP or AVIF file for a video cover afterward, convert the downloaded PNG or JPEG separately.
No. The image is decoded to raw pixels and re-encoded during resizing, so EXIF metadata, including GPS location, is not carried over to the 1080x1920 output file.
No. Resizing runs entirely in your browser using WebAssembly. Your image is never sent anywhere.
This page resizes one image at a time. If you're preparing a batch of Stories or Reels covers, you'll need to run each image through separately here.
The quality slider defaults to 85, a good balance for most Story and Reel covers. Drag it lower for a smaller file, higher if the image will be scrutinized closely. PNG output has no quality slider, since it's always encoded losslessly.
Shrinking a larger image down to 1080x1920 rarely causes visible quality loss. Enlarging a smaller image up to 1080x1920 can soften it, since the tool has to interpolate pixels that were never in the original.
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