Resize an Image for Instagram Profile Picture
320 × 320 pixels — the exact size Instagram Profile Picture expects.
The dimensions
320 × 320 pixels, an aspect ratio of about 1.00:1. Uploaded at 320 pixels square and displayed as a circle, so the corners are never seen.
Crop, and what you will lose
Because the visible shape is a circle, anything near the corner of the square is cropped away. Compose with a generous margin around the subject.
Upload at 320, but design for 110
The avatar is stored at 320 pixels but shown at roughly 110 pixels on a phone feed and smaller in comment threads. At that size a face needs to fill most of the circle to be recognisable, and any text smaller than about 30 pixels in the uploaded file is unreadable. Upload the 320-pixel version, but judge the design at thumbnail size.
How to crop it here
Selecting cover scales your image uniformly until it fills the 320 × 320 rectangle, then trims the overflow from the centre. Contain would leave empty bands instead, which is wrong for an image meant to fill a frame, and stretch would distort faces.
Why this runs in your browser
The file is read from your disk by the browser, decoded with the browser's own codecs, and re-encoded in this tab. No upload request is made, nothing is queued on a server, and closing the tab leaves no copy anywhere. You can verify this in the network panel while it works.
How to use it
- Drop the image on the drop zone.
- Choose the Instagram Profile Picture preset, or type 320 and 320 directly.
- Set cover mode so the frame is filled without distortion.
- Check the crop keeps the subject centred, then download.
Worth knowing
- Target dimensions are 320 × 320 pixels, ratio 1.00:1.
- Used for profile avatar.
- Cover fills the frame and crops the overflow; contain letterboxes instead.
- Aspect ratio is preserved in every mode except stretch.
Limitations
- Cropping is from the centre — frame the photo before uploading if the subject is off-centre.
- Upscaling beyond the original size adds no detail.
- Very small sources will look soft at 320 pixels wide.
- Platforms change their internal dimensions without notice; these are current published figures.