Instagram Story and Reel Size Resizer

Stories and Reels fill a phone screen at 9:16, so Instagram recommends 1080 × 1920 pixels. Landscape or square photos either get cropped hard or zoomed in. This tool fits any photo into the 9:16 frame without cropping, on a blurred copy of itself or a plain colour, or crops to fill if you prefer. A guide preview marks the top and bottom areas covered by the profile name, buttons and caption, and for Reels the 3:4 crop shown on your profile grid.

How to use this tool

1. Choose one or more photos.
2. Pick Story or Reel.
3. Keep "blurred copy" to show the whole photo, or crop to fill and move the position.
4. Check the guide: keep text and faces out of the red areas.
5. Download and post from your phone (or send the files to it).

Formula

whole image: scale = min(1080 ÷ width, 1920 ÷ height) · crop: scale = max(…) × zoom

The blurred background is the same photo enlarged to fill the frame, drawn at 1/40 size and scaled back up, then darkened by 18%. The guide follows Meta's safe-zone advice for vertical placements: about 14% at the top and bottom of Stories; for Reels 14% at the top, 35% at the bottom and 6% at each side.

Example

A 4032 × 3024 landscape photo fitted whole gives scale = min(1080/4032, 1920/3024) = 0.268, so it is drawn 1080 × 810 px in the middle of the frame, with 555 px of blurred background above and below. Cropped to fill instead, only the middle 42% of the width (1701 px of 4032) would be kept.

Safe zones

Instagram draws your name and the close button over the top of a Story and the reply bar over the bottom. On Reels the caption, audio name and like, comment and share buttons cover the lower third and the right edge. The profile grid now shows Reels cropped to 3:4, which keeps the middle 1440 px of the 1920 px height. These overlays move slightly between phones and app versions, so treat the guide as approximate.