Crop Image 4:5
Crop image 4:5 in one slide: a tall frame opens over your photo at the largest 4:5 it holds, so a phone picture loses only a thin strip and keeps every pixel inside.
Drop an image to crop it to 4:5
The 4:5 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 4:5 portrait crop
that barely touches a phone photo.
Your phone shoots 3:4, and 4:5 is only a hair wider, so the crop takes a thin band off the top and bottom and leaves the rest alone. That makes it the tallest shape most feeds allow without cutting into the picture. The frame shows the band before you commit.
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?
A true 4:5 beats a nearly-4:5.
What a 4:5 cropper should hand back, next to the shortcuts that make a feed crop it again.
Piknova
What you get- Exactly 4:5, so the app shows it as you framed it
- Opens at the largest 4:5 the photo holds
- Runs in your browser, the photo stays on your device
- Every pixel inside the frame, at full size
- Free, no signup, no watermark
Other tools
What you put up with- A free box that is almost 4:5 and gets trimmed on upload
- Opens small, so you drag it out to the edges first
- Uploaded to a server before you see the frame
- Shrunk to a preview size unless you pay
- A logo stamped on the portrait
Drop, frame the portrait, save
Three steps in this browser tab, no account, 25 MB per image.
- 01
Drop the photo
A JPG, PNG or WebP. The tall 4:5 frame lands on it right away, as large as it fits.
- 02
Line up the subject
Slide the frame to choose which edge gives up its strip. The dimmed band is what gets cut.
- 03
Apply and download
Press Apply, then download. You get every pixel inside the frame, in the format you started with.
Step by step
Crop image 4:5 in four steps
The frame is already 4:5 when the photo lands. What is left is deciding which edge to spare.
- Drop the photo: Drag it onto the box at the top of this page, pick it from your files, or paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V. The 4:5 frame opens in the middle, as tall as the picture allows.
- Pick the edge that pays: Slide the frame up or down on an upright photo. Headroom is usually the cheaper strip to lose than feet or a table edge.
- Tighten it if you like: Drag a corner inward for a closer portrait. Both sides move together, so the shape stays 4:5 however small it gets.
- Apply and download: Press Apply, open the export and download. Need exactly 1080 by 1350? Scale the finished crop in the image resizer, as the next sections explain.
Typing numbers into W and H cuts a window of that many pixels out of the photo. It does not shrink the whole 4:5, so leave those fields alone unless you want a tighter crop.
4:5
tall, locked while you drag
The shape
The 4:5 aspect ratio, from sheet film to phone screens
4:5 means four units wide for every five tall. The width always comes first, which is what makes 4:5 a portrait and 5:4 its sideways twin.
It is an old shape. Large-format cameras shoot single sheets of film, and the two best-known sheet sizes, 4x5 and 8x10 inches, are both 4:5. Photographers framed portraits and landscapes in it long before anyone scrolled.
It survived because it is gentle. A 4:5 frame is 0.8 as wide as it is tall, close to the 0.75 of a phone photo, so it reads as tall without feeling like a strip.
| Ratio | Width per unit of height | Feels like |
|---|---|---|
| 1:1 | 1.00 | A square, no lean either way |
| 4:5 | 0.80 | A portrait with room around the subject |
| 3:4 | 0.75 | The phone camera's own shape |
| 2:3 | 0.67 | A classic 35mm print stood up |
| 9:16 | 0.56 | A full phone screen |
Further reading
Tall posts
A 4:5 portrait crop for tall feed posts
Feeds reward height, because a taller post fills more of the screen on the way past. 4:5 is the tallest shape Instagram's feed takes for a photo post.
- The usual size: 1080 by 1350 pixels. Crop the full 4:5 here, then set the width to 1080 in the image resizer with the ratio locked, and the height lands on 1350.
- The profile grid: Since early 2025 the profile grid shows 3:4 tiles, a touch narrower than 4:5. A thin strip at each side of your post is hidden there, so keep faces and text away from the side edges.
- Why tall wins: At the same width, a 4:5 post stands a quarter taller than a square and far taller than a landscape shot, so it holds the screen for longer as someone scrolls past.
A shortcut for exact sizes: crop at twice the target, 2160 by 2700, and choose Half size in the export. It keeps less of the scene than the resizer route, but it takes one tool instead of two.
Prints and frames
Crop to 8x10 for prints and frames
An 8x10 print is 4:5 exactly, so this frame is the one to use before sending a photo to a lab. So are 4x5 and 16x20.
The common print sizes do not share a shape, which catches people out. A 5x7 is narrower than 4:5 and a 4x6 narrower still, so a photo cropped for one gets trimmed again by the lab when printed at the other.
| Print (inches) | Crop at 300 PPI | From a 12 MP phone photo (3024 x 4032) |
|---|---|---|
| 4 x 5 | 1200 x 1500 px | Fits, with room to frame |
| 8 x 10 | 2400 x 3000 px | Fits, with room to frame |
| 16 x 20 | 4800 x 6000 px | Too big. The largest that fits is 3024 x 3780, about 189 pixels per inch, fine on a wall seen from across the room, soft up close |
Crop at the largest 4:5 and let the lab do the scaling. It knows its printer's resolution better than any number typed here.
Further reading
What stays
Crop photo 4:5 from any camera: what stays
How much a 4:5 frame keeps depends on the photo's own shape. Upright pictures barely notice, sideways ones lose a lot.
| Picture | Size | Largest 4:5 crop | Share kept |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phone photo, upright | 3024 x 4032 | 3024 x 3780 px | 93.8% |
| Phone photo, sideways | 4032 x 3024 | 2419 x 3024 px | 60% |
| Camera photo, upright | 4000 x 6000 | 4000 x 5000 px | 83.3% |
| Camera photo, sideways | 6000 x 4000 | 3200 x 4000 px | 53.3% |
| Full HD screenshot | 1920 x 1080 | 864 x 1080 px | 45% |
An upright phone photo keeps almost all of itself at 4:5, more than it would as a square. Turned sideways it keeps under two thirds, because a tall frame on a wide picture throws away both ends.
If the destination takes 3:4, that shape keeps the whole of an upright phone photo. If it wants a square, the square page will show you what that costs.
4:5 crop: common questions
What people ask when a photo has to go tall.
Any size where the width is four fifths of the height: 1080 by 1350, 2400 by 3000, 3024 by 3780. The biggest 4:5 from a 12 megapixel phone photo is that last one.
For a set size, crop the full 4:5 first and then scale it in the image resizer with the ratio locked. Typing the size into the crop fields would cut a smaller window instead.
Yes. 8 divided by 10 is 0.8, and so is 4 divided by 5, so an 8x10 print is a 4:5 picture blown up.
5x7 and 4x6 are different shapes. A 4:5 crop printed at either one loses a little more at the lab.
There is no 5:4 button, so type the two numbers yourself. On a sideways 4032 by 3024 phone photo, 3780 in W and 3024 in H gives the largest 5:4 it holds.
The ratio reads Free once you type. That is expected: the numbers you entered set the shape.
Instagram's profile grid shows 3:4 tiles, which are slightly narrower than 4:5. It hides a thin strip at each side of the post in the grid view only.
The full post still shows when someone opens it. Keep names and faces clear of the side edges and nothing important disappears.
On an upright phone photo, 6.25 percent: 126 pixels at the top and 126 at the bottom if the frame stays centred. You can slide it to take all 252 from one end.
A sideways phone photo loses 40 percent, because the tall frame has to drop both sides.
Up to 8x10, comfortably. That print needs 2400 by 3000 pixels at 300 per inch, and an upright phone crop has 3024 by 3780.
A 16x20 from the same crop works out to about 189 pixels per inch. That is fine on a wall and a little soft with your nose against it.
Tall, and nearly all of it.
Drop the photo, slide the 4:5 frame over the subject, and download it at full resolution. Free, with no signup.