Crop Image 2:3
Crop image 2:3 for 4x6 prints and Pinterest pins: a tall frame in the shape of a 35mm negative opens over your photo, and you slide it onto the part worth keeping.
Drop an image to crop it to 2:3
The 2:3 portrait frame opens on your picture. Slide it to choose what stays. Or press Ctrl + V to paste one straight from your clipboard. PNG, JPG or WebP, up to 25 MB. Edited in your browser, never uploaded.
A 2:3 crop
in the shape of a 35mm negative.
A 35mm film frame is 24 by 36 millimetres, which is where 2:3 comes from, and why a 4x6 print and most camera sensors share it. Phones shoot a little wider, so their photos need a trim before a print lab makes one for you.
Other crop shapes and sizes
The same crop tool, opened on a different shape or size. Each one starts with its frame already set.
Tools that pair well with this one
All free, all in your browser, no signup.
Why use Piknova?
Your own 2:3 beats the lab's guesswork.
What a 2:3 cropper should do, next to what usually happens instead.
Piknova
What you get- You pick which strip of the photo goes
- 2:3 and 3:2 in the same menu, both centred
- The frame appears the moment the photo does
- Full resolution out, at no charge
- Free, no signup, no watermark
Other tools
What you put up with- The print kiosk trims the edges without asking
- A 2:3 option buried three menus deep
- An upload to someone's server before you see a thing
- A high resolution download that costs extra
- A logo stamped across the middle of your pin
Load, frame, print
Three steps in this browser tab, no account, 25 MB per image.
- 01
Load the photo
A JPG, PNG or WebP. A tall 2:3 frame appears on it at once, as large as it fits.
- 02
Frame the shot
Slide the frame onto the subject, or drag a corner in to cut closer. It stays 2:3.
- 03
Download for the print or the pin
Press Apply, keep Actual size for printing, and download.
Step by step
How to crop image 2:3 from a phone or camera photo
The frame opens tall, centred, and as large as the picture allows. On a camera photo held upright it covers everything; on a phone photo it trims a slim strip off each side.
- Drop the photo: Drag it onto the box at the top of this page, pick it from your files, or paste it with Ctrl+V. The 2:3 frame opens in the middle.
- See what goes: The dimmed strips are what 2:3 costs this picture. On an upright phone photo that is about a ninth of the width.
- Move it where it matters: Slide the frame so nobody's shoulder sits in the dark strip. Drag a corner in if you want a tighter shot.
- Apply and download: Press Apply and keep Actual size if the file is heading to a print lab.
| Picture | Size | Largest 2:3 crop | Share kept |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phone photo, upright | 3024 x 4032 | 2688 x 4032 px | 88.9% |
| Phone photo, sideways | 4032 x 3024 | 2016 x 3024 px | 50% |
| Camera photo, upright | 4000 x 6000 | 4000 x 6000 px | 100% |
| Camera photo, sideways | 6000 x 4000 | 2667 x 4000 px | 44.5% |
| Full HD screenshot | 1920 x 1080 | 720 x 1080 px | 37.5% |
2:3
the 4x6 print shape
The shape
The 2:3 aspect ratio: a 35mm frame stood upright
2:3 means two units across for every three down, about 0.67 to 1. It is the shape of a frame of 35mm film, and almost a century of photography grew up around it.
| Pixels | Where you meet it |
|---|---|
| 1000 x 1500 | A standard Pinterest pin |
| 1200 x 1800 | A 4x6 print at 300 pixels per inch |
| 2400 x 3600 | An 8x12 print at 300 pixels per inch |
| 2688 x 4032 | The largest 2:3 inside a 12 megapixel phone photo |
| 4000 x 6000 | A 24 megapixel camera photo, held upright |
Oskar Barnack's Leica, in production from 1925, proved that a 24 by 36 millimetre frame on 35mm film was enough for professional work. Kodak gave that film the name 135 in 1934.
Digital cameras kept the shape. Full-frame sensors match the 36 by 24 millimetre film frame, and the smaller APS-C sensors in most other interchangeable-lens cameras are 3:2 as well.
Further reading
Lying down
3:2 crop for landscape shots, from the same menu
3:2 is 2:3 on its side, the shape of a 6x4 print and of a camera photo held level. It has its own button in the ratio menu, right next to 2:3.
| Picture | Pixels | 3:2 keeps |
|---|---|---|
| Camera photo, level | 6000 x 4000 | All of it: already 3:2 |
| Phone photo, sideways | 4032 x 3024 | 4032 x 2688, about 89% |
| Full HD screenshot | 1920 x 1080 | 1620 x 1080, about 84% |
| Phone photo, upright | 3024 x 4032 | 3024 x 2016, half of it |
If the frame covers the whole picture, the photo is already 3:2 and there is nothing to fix. Drag a corner in only if you want the shot tighter.
An upright photo turned into a landscape 3:2 keeps half its height at best. That is a different picture, so pick the band you keep on purpose rather than taking the middle.
Prints
Crop to 4x6 before the print lab does it for you
A 4x6 print is 2:3, and a phone photo is not. Send one as it is and the lab's machine fills the paper by trimming about a ninth of the picture, from wherever it likes.
| Print (inches) | Crop at 300 PPI | From a 12 MP phone photo (3024 x 4032) |
|---|---|---|
| 4 x 6 | 1200 x 1800 px | Fits, with room to frame |
| 8 x 12 | 2400 x 3600 px | Fits, with room to frame |
| 12 x 18 | 3600 x 5400 px | Too big. The largest that fits is 2688 x 4032, about 224 pixels per inch, which few people will notice at arm's length |
| 20 x 30 | 6000 x 9000 px | Too big. The largest that fits is 2688 x 4032, about 134 pixels per inch, fine on a wall seen from across the room, soft up close |
A 2:3 crop of a 12 megapixel phone photo is 2688 by 4032 pixels, well past the 1200 by 1800 a 4x6 needs. It stays at full print quality up to 8x12, holds about 224 pixels per inch at 12x18, and falls to about 134 at 20x30, which is poster territory.
4x6 is a shape, not a pixel count: the lab prints any 2:3 file at that size. Picking 5x7 or 8x10 at the counter changes the shape again, and the machine trims again.
Crop image for Pinterest at 1000 x 1500
Pinterest's own spec for a standard pin is 2:3, with 1000 by 1500 pixels as the example. It also warns that pins taller than 2:3 might get cut off in people's feeds.
- The shape matters, the size less so: Any 2:3 file keeps its shape on Pinterest, which scales it to fit. A 2688 by 4032 crop shows the same as a 1000 by 1500 one.
- Want exactly 1000 x 1500?: Crop at full size here, then set the width to 1000 in the image resizer with the ratio locked. Typing 1000 x 1500 in the crop cuts a smaller window out of the photo instead.
- Keep the point of the pin in the middle: Boards and search results show pins at different sizes. Whatever the pin is about should survive being small.
2:3 crop: common questions
What people ask about the film shape before they print or pin.
Any size where the height is one and a half times the width. 1000 by 1500 for a Pinterest pin, 1200 by 1800 for a 4x6 print, 4000 by 6000 from a 24 megapixel camera held upright.
Same shape, turned. 2:3 is upright, for portraits and pins, and 3:2 lies down, for landscapes and 6x4 prints.
Both are in the ratio menu, so pick the one that matches how the photo should hang.
A phone shoots 3:4 and a 4x6 print is 2:3, so the machine fills the paper by cutting about a ninth of the picture: from the sides of an upright shot, from the top and bottom of a sideways one.
Crop to 2:3 first and you decide which ninth goes.
2:3 in shape, and at least 1200 by 1800 pixels for full print quality. A 2:3 crop of any recent phone photo clears that easily.
Pinterest recommends 2:3, for example 1000 by 1500 pixels. A taller pin might get cut off in the feed.
Usually not. Full-frame and APS-C cameras shoot 3:2, so a camera photo held upright is already 2:3 and the frame covers all of it.
Crop only to tighten the shot. The shape is already right.
Two across, three down, ready for the lab.
Drop the photo, place the 2:3 frame, and download at full resolution. Free, with no signup.