# A free headshot resizer for every profile size LinkedIn wants a square. Your passport office wants 35 × 45 mm. Your company directory wants a 4:5 portrait. Pick the destination, position your face, download the exact file - free, no account, and nothing ever leaves your browser. > Canonical: https://aiheadshot.me/headshot-resizer LinkedIn wants a square, your passport office 35 × 45 mm. This headshot resizer sizes for both - free, nothing uploaded. ## The Sizes People Actually Ask For Every preset here is a real requirement someone has been asked to meet, not a round number. Dimensions are set slightly above each platform's stated minimum, because every one of them re-compresses on upload - hand over a file at the exact minimum and what people see is below it. ### Social profiles LinkedIn, X, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, GitHub and Discord. Almost all are shown as a circle, so the tool draws the circle the platform will crop to. ### Work tools Slack, Teams, Zoom, email signatures, company team pages, speaker and press-kit portraits. ### Résumé and CV 35 × 45 mm for European applications, 30 × 40 mm for a Japanese rirekisho, and a plain square where the form does not specify. ### ID and travel documents US 2 × 2 in, Schengen, UK and India 35 × 45 mm, China 33 × 48 mm, Canada 50 × 70 mm - each with its own head-position guides drawn over the frame. ### Print 4 × 6, 5 × 7 and the 8 × 10 that actors and models are asked for, all at 300 DPI. ### Anything else Type an exact pixel width and height. The tool tells you the closest ratio to generate at if you want a new photo to match. ## Your Photo Never Leaves This Page Most free image tools upload your file to a server, process it there, and give you a link. That is a copy of your face on someone else's disk, governed by a privacy policy you did not read. This tool does not work that way. ### There is no upload The photo is decoded and drawn by your own browser using a canvas. No request carries the image anywhere, which you can confirm yourself in your browser's network tab. ### Nothing is stored, because nothing arrives There is no file to retain, no retention period to trust us on, and no deletion request to make. Close the tab and it is gone. ### No account, no credits, no watermark Processing costs us nothing because it happens on your device, so there is nothing to meter and nothing to gate. The export is the full-resolution file, unmarked. ### It works offline Once the page has loaded you can disconnect entirely and it will still work. That is the clearest possible demonstration of the point. ## Crop to Fill, or Fit the Whole Photo A photo almost never has the same shape as the box it is going into. There are only two honest ways to resolve that, and the right one depends on what you care about keeping. ### Crop to fill The photo covers the whole frame and whatever falls outside is trimmed. Best for profile pictures, where a background band would look like a mistake. You keep the framing; you lose the edges. ### Fit the whole photo The entire image is kept and the leftover space is filled with a colour you choose. Best when the crop would cut into hair, chin or shoulders - a wide group shot going into a square, for example. You keep everything; you gain a border. ### Choosing the background colour Off-white rather than pure white for document photos, because a white shirt against pure white loses its outline. Match the page for a website, and use the picker for a brand colour. ## Four Steps, About Twenty Seconds ### Add your photo Drag it onto the frame or choose a file. JPEG, PNG and WebP all work, at any size. ### Pick where it is going Choose the destination from the list, or type exact pixel dimensions. The frame changes shape to match immediately. ### Position your face Drag the photo and use the zoom slider. Arrow keys nudge it a pixel at a time if you need to be precise, and the overlay shows exactly what the platform will crop away. ### Download PNG for uploads, JPEG where a portal demands it. The file is exactly the dimensions shown on the button. ## What This Is Usually For Almost always a form that has just rejected a file. ### A new job, and LinkedIn looks wrong A photo cropped for a rectangle looks fine in a feed and loses its chin inside LinkedIn's circle. The circle overlay makes that visible before you upload rather than after. ### A visa portal that rejects everything Government upload forms tend to enforce exact pixel dimensions and reject anything else without explaining which rule failed. Starting from the correct size removes one whole category of rejection. ### A conference asking for a square headshot Speaker forms usually want a large square, and the only photo you have is a portrait crop from a work event. ### A team page where everyone else matches One person's photo in a different shape is the thing people notice about a team grid. ### A CV for a country that expects a photo Applications across much of Europe and Asia include one, at a size the form specifies in millimetres rather than pixels. ### A print order at the wrong resolution Print is measured in inches at 300 DPI. The print presets do that conversion so an 8 × 10 is genuinely 2400 × 3000. ## A Small Tool That Does Its Job Properly No sign-up wall, no watermark, no queue. ### Exports at full resolution The canvas renders at the output size, not the preview size, so nothing is upscaled on the way out. ### Platform crop overlays Circle, rounded square, or document alignment guides - drawn over the frame and never baked into the file. ### Keyboard and touch Drag on a phone, arrow-key nudge on a desktop. Every control is reachable without a mouse. ### Custom dimensions Any size from 16 to 8000 pixels, with the closest generation ratio shown alongside. ### PNG or JPEG Lossless where it helps, compressed where a portal insists on it. ### Free, permanently It runs on your device, so there is no cost for us to pass on. ## Resizing Cannot Fix Everything It is worth being clear about what changing dimensions can and cannot do to a photo. ### Start larger than you need Cropping down from a big photo keeps detail. Enlarging a small one invents it, and it shows around eyes and hair. If you have the original rather than a messaging-app copy, use the original. ### Leave room around your head Especially for document photos, which specify how much of the frame your head must occupy. A photo already cropped tight to the hairline cannot be padded back into compliance convincingly. ### A resize is not a retouch Harsh overhead light, a cluttered background and a phone-lens perspective all survive the crop intact. Those need a different photo, not a different size. ## Headshot Resizer Questions Sizes, crops and where the file goes ### Does the headshot resizer upload my photo anywhere? No, and that is the entire design. Cropping, padding and export all run inside this page using your browser’s own canvas - the file is never transmitted to us or to anyone else, there is no account, and closing the tab is the whole of the cleanup. It is also why the tool keeps working once the page has loaded even with no network connection. ### Is my photo uploaded anywhere? No. The image is read and edited by your browser and the exported file is created on your device. You can verify it: open your browser's network tab, resize a photo, and you will see no request carrying it. You can also disconnect from the internet after the page loads and the tool keeps working. ### Is it really free, and is there a watermark? Free with no account, and no watermark. All the work happens on your own device, so it costs us nothing to run - there is nothing to meter. We do also sell AI-generated headshots, and the hope is that some people who resize a photo here decide they would rather have a better one. ### What size should a LinkedIn profile photo be? LinkedIn accepts from 400 × 400 up to very large files. The preset here is 800 × 800, comfortably above the minimum so the version LinkedIn re-compresses still looks sharp. The important part is not the size but the shape: LinkedIn crops to a circle, so anything in the corners is discarded. ### Can I use this to make a passport photo? You can use it to get the exact dimensions your country asks for, and it draws the usual head-height and eye-line guides so you can align a photo you already have. It cannot judge whether your expression, headwear, lighting or background meet the rules, and only the issuing authority decides whether a photo is accepted. Treat it as a precise ruler, not an approval. ### What is the difference between crop and fit? Crop fills the frame and trims whatever does not fit, so you lose the edges of the photo. Fit keeps the entire photo and fills the leftover space with a colour you pick, so you gain a border. Use crop for profile pictures and fit when the crop would cut into your head or shoulders. ### Why does my photo look soft after resizing? Because it was enlarged rather than reduced. Resizing cannot add detail that was not captured - if the source is 400 pixels wide and the target is 2400, the result is a stretched 400-pixel photo. Always start from the largest original you have, not a version that has been through a messaging app. ### PNG or JPEG? PNG is lossless and the safer default, particularly for uploads that will be re-compressed by the destination anyway. Choose JPEG when a portal explicitly requires it or enforces a maximum file size - many government forms do both. ### Does it work on a phone? Yes. Drag with a finger to position and use the zoom slider. The exported file downloads to your device in the normal way. ### Will resizing help if my photo just is not very good? No, and it is worth saying plainly. A correctly sized photo taken in bad light with a cluttered background behind it is still a photo taken in bad light with a cluttered background. If that is the actual problem, generating a proper headshot from a few selfies will do far more than any crop. ### Can I use what Free Headshot Resizer makes commercially? Every paid plan includes a commercial licence for what Free Headshot Resizer makes; the free tier is for personal use. ### How does Free Headshot Resizer compare, and what alternatives fit a different workflow? Free Headshot Resizer: A free headshot resizer that crops or pads any photo to the exact size LinkedIn, Slack, a CV or a passport office asks for. Runs in your browser. Related options are Passport & ID Photo Size: Get the exact passport photo size for the US, Schengen, UK, India, China and Canada. Crop to official dimensions with head-position guides, free, Create AI Headshots: Create AI headshots from a few selfies. Upload, pick a backdrop and an outfit, then download an auto-ranked shortlist of studio portraits in up to 4K, and Corporate Team Headshots: Consistent corporate headshots across your whole company without a studio day. Lock one style, invite by CSV, track the rollout, download a ZIP. Choose by the required input, delivered output, controls, limits, current availability, and credit cost; the related-tools section links each canonical page. ## The Size Was the Easy Part Upload a few selfies and get studio-quality headshots back - correctly lit, properly framed, and in whichever ratio you need. Then come back here to fit them to every platform you use. ## Related tools ### [Passport & ID Photo Size](https://aiheadshot.me/passport-photo-size) ### [Create AI Headshots](https://aiheadshot.me/ai-headshot-generator) ### [Corporate Team Headshots](https://aiheadshot.me/corporate-headshots) ## Every tool in the Free Headshot Resizer family ### [Passport & ID Photo Size](https://aiheadshot.me/passport-photo-size) _Last updated July 28, 2026_