Resize, Crop and Rotate Tools

When to use Resize & Crop

Use these when the dimensions themselves are wrong — the image is far bigger than the space it will occupy, the composition needs tightening, or a photo came off the camera rotated. Resizing is the single most effective way to reduce a file, because file size scales with pixel count: halving the width and the height removes roughly three quarters of the data before any encoder is involved.

Choosing between these tools

Image Resizer for exact numbers

Resize by pixels or by percentage, with fit (stay inside a box), fill (cover the box, cropping the overflow) and exact (force both numbers) modes. Aspect ratio stays locked unless you unlock it.

Crop Image when composition matters

A draggable selection with free or fixed ratios, and live pixel numbers, so you choose the region by eye and still know precisely what you are getting.

Image Enlarger for going up

The same resize engine with upscaling allowed and an honest note attached: enlarging interpolates between pixels that exist, so it cannot invent detail the original never captured.

Rotate & Flip for orientation

Quarter turns, an arbitrary angle, and horizontal or vertical mirroring. On a free angle the canvas grows so the corners are never clipped.

What to watch out for

• Enlarging always softens an image. If the source is small, a larger output will look worse at 100%, not better.
• Fill mode crops whatever does not fit the target ratio; fit mode never crops but will not match both numbers exactly. Exact mode distorts unless the ratios already agree.
• EXIF orientation is applied to the pixels before anything else, so a photo that looked rotated in one viewer and upright in another comes out the same everywhere.
• Resize before you compress. Compressing first spends quality on pixels you are about to throw away.

Typical jobs

• Bringing a 4000 px camera photo down to the 1600 px a blog column actually displays.
• Cropping a group photo to a square for a profile picture.
• Straightening a scan by a couple of degrees without clipping its corners.

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