Resize a portrait photo for a Facebook post

A portrait crop can suit a person, a tall product, a doorway, or a scene that has a clear vertical structure. It gives you more room above and below the subject than a square, but it still removes content from a source with a different shape. Start by deciding what the post needs to show, rather than selecting a format just because it is available.

This page exports our 1080×1350 pixel portrait JPEG. It is a prepared 4:5 file, not a guarantee of a particular display size in every Facebook feed or preview. For a person's portrait, leave space for hair, shoulders, and hands where they matter. For a product, check that the base and top remain inside the frame.

A landscape group photograph usually needs a different decision. Cropping it to portrait can remove people or make the remaining composition misleading. Use the album compressor to preserve the original proportions, or prepare a separate intentional portrait from a suitable source. The tool cannot extend scenery, move people closer together, or add missing background around an awkward crop.

Use the original edited photograph and adjust the crop around the intended subject. Then compare detail that is easy to overprocess: hair, eyelashes, fabric, skin, and hard edges against a plain background. A crisp border is useful only when the whole person or object still looks natural.

1. Open the original image with the portrait preset selected.
2. Adjust the crop and check the subject's full visible outline.
3. Compare facial detail, textures, and any lettering.
4. Reduce sharpening if you see harsh skin texture or bright edge halos.
5. Download the JPEG and review it on a phone before posting.

If the image was missed focus or blurred by motion, this preparation step cannot reconstruct it. Look for a better original frame if available. Similarly, a face cropped from a small part of a large image may not contain enough pixels for a clear post. A larger output setting changes file dimensions, not the amount of captured detail. Keep the source so each trial starts from the same image rather than from a previous export.

A portrait feed post, a circular profile picture, and a full-height Story are different compositions. Starting from the same master is sensible; reusing one tight crop everywhere can cut off important content. Create a separate profile export or Story export when you need one, then inspect that placement independently.

Correct lighting and colour before compression. This tool changes dimensions, crop, encoding, and edge contrast. It does not retouch skin, remove an object, match photos from different cameras, or fix a colour cast. If several portraits belong to a campaign or event, edit their appearance together in your photo workflow before preparing the social copies.

Put names, context, and essential details in the post text as well as any image lettering. A portrait can look technically clear while an overlaid caption remains too small to read on a phone. Keep the editable original if text may change. Finally, inspect the Facebook composer and the published result for cropping and image quality. The platform controls its own encoding and display. A clean local file is a useful starting point, but no compression setting here guarantees that the published version will match the source exactly.