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Pinterest image resizer

Resize any image to the exact dimensions Pinterest expects: standard pin 1000x1500, plus every other Pinterest size. Runs in your browser, nothing uploaded.

Your image

Your resized preview appears here.

Size

Options

Framing

Fills the frame and crops the overflow — right for profile photos and banners.

Format

PNG for graphics and text, JPEG for photographs.

How to resize an image for Pinterest

Pinterest lays pins out in vertical columns, so height is space and shape decides how much of a column you occupy. The 2:3 standard pin is not a style preference, it is the shape the feed lays out without cutting.

  1. Start from the largest original you have, not a copy already exported for somewhere else. Every export is another lossy pass and they stack up.
  2. Pick the preset you are genuinely posting to. There are 4 Pinterest sizes here, starting with the standard pin at 1000x1500px.
  3. Choose Cover to fill the frame, which trims the long edge evenly from both sides, or Contain to keep the whole picture and pad the gap. Contain pads white, so a photo destined for a dark layout shows a white border.
  4. If you export JPEG, remember it has no transparency: a logo with a transparent background lands on a white square. That is the one case worth going back for PNG.
  5. If the source is a landscape photo, try Contain first and design the padding, rather than letting Cover throw away both sides of it.
  6. Read the finished pin at grid size. A pin is scrolled past at a few hundred pixels tall, and that is where its title has to work.

Every Pinterest image size, and the ratio each one forces

Four sizes, and the real difference between them is how much of a column each one takes and how much of it the feed will show.

  • Standard pin: 1000x1500px. 2:3, the ratio Pinterest recommends.
  • Square pin: 1000x1000px, a ratio of 1:1. Good for carousels.
  • Long pin: 1000x2100px, a ratio of 10:21. Infographics; may be truncated in feed.
  • Profile photo: 165x165px, a ratio of 1:1. Displayed as a circle.
  • 1000x1500 is Pinterest’s own recommended 2:3 and the safest shape, because the feed shows it whole.
  • A square pin is the one to use in a carousel, where every image has to share a ratio.
  • The long pin is for infographics and can be truncated in the feed, so put the title at the top and never leave the conclusion at the bottom.
  • The 165x165 profile photo is drawn as a circle and is the smallest source in this family.

What goes wrong when the size is off on Pinterest

A pin fails by being skipped rather than by being rejected, and the shape is usually the reason.

  • A landscape photo pinned as it is: in a vertical feed it occupies a sliver of the column and is scrolled straight past.
  • The payoff at the bottom of a long pin: that is the part the feed cuts, so only someone who opens the pin ever sees it.
  • Type set for a laptop: pins are judged at thumbnail size first, and words that do not work at a quarter of the size do not work.

When resizing is not the answer

Pins last. One saved today can still be sending people somewhere in two years, which changes the arithmetic here: the resize is the quick part and the design is not.

  • Cropping a landscape photograph to 2:3 with Cover keeps about a third of its width. If the picture needs its width, it is the wrong picture for a pin.
  • A resizer cannot add the words a pin needs to be found. Pinterest is a search surface, so the title on the image and the description underneath are doing that work.
The rest of the job

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Frequently asked questions

How this tool works, what it cannot do, and what happens to what you put into it.

  • What image size does Pinterest use?

    The sizes this tool offers are Pinterest's own recommendations: Standard pin at 1000x1500px, Square pin at 1000x1000px, Long pin at 1000x2100px. Picking a preset resizes your image to exactly those pixels.

  • Is my image uploaded anywhere?

    No. The file is read, resized and exported by your own browser using a canvas. It never reaches a server, so there is nothing to delete afterwards.

  • Will resizing make my image blurry?

    Scaling down is lossless-looking; scaling a small image up cannot invent detail, so start from the largest original you have. The tool tells you when your source is smaller than the target.

  • Which format should I export?

    PNG for graphics, text and screenshots; JPEG for photographs, where it is far smaller at the same visible quality. Both are offered after resizing.

  • Is my data private?

    Yes. This tool does its work in your browser, so whatever you type, paste or upload stays on your device. Nothing is sent to our servers, which is also why it keeps working if you go offline after the page has loaded.

  • Is this really free?

    Yes. Every tool here is free with no account, no credit card and no usage cap. They exist so that the people who need our scheduling product find us, which only works if the tools are genuinely useful on their own.

  • Do I need an account?

    No. Open the page and use it. An account is only for OctoSpark itself, where you plan, schedule and publish a whole calendar rather than fixing one post at a time.

  • Can I use the output commercially?

    Yes. Anything you produce here is yours, including for client and commercial work. We claim no rights over it and we do not watermark it.