Resize an image for Instagram
Instagram re-compresses everything, and it looks worst when the size is wrong. Give it the exact pixels it wants and your photo stays sharp.
Feed posts are 1080 pixels wide: 1080×1080 for square, 1080×1350 for portrait and 1080×566 for landscape. Stories and Reels are 1080×1920. Profile pictures are shown at 320×320 but upload at 1080×1080 for safety. The presets on this page set those sizes and crop to fill so there are no bars.
Upload from a clean JPG at 90 percent quality or higher. Instagram downsizes anything larger than 1080 pixels wide, so bigger files only slow the upload.
How to resize an image for Instagram
- Drop the photos. A batch of posts from the same shoot is fine.
- Pick the Instagram size. Square, portrait, landscape or story. Crop to fill is preselected.
- Download and post. Upload the JPG from your phone or the web app.
Why use myownpic for this
Nothing is uploaded
Photos are read from your disk and processed by your browser. There is no server, so ID scans, family pictures and work files never travel anywhere.
Faster than any upload
A 10 MB photo compresses in about a second. No queue, no upload bar, no download round trip, and it keeps working offline.
Whole batches, one zip
Drop a folder, not a file. Every tool works on many images at once and hands you a zip.
No watermark, no account
Free with no sign-up, no daily quota, no resolution cap and no logo stamped on your pictures.
Questions people ask
What size does Instagram want?
1080×1080 square, 1080×1350 portrait, 1080×566 landscape for feed posts, and 1080×1920 for stories and reels.
Why does Instagram blur my photo?
It re-compresses every upload, and uploads over a slow connection get an extra compression pass. Upload over Wi-Fi from a photo that is already the right size and under a few megabytes.
Can I keep the whole picture instead of cropping?
Choose add bars instead of crop to fill and the photo is padded to the shape without losing any of it.