Resize a photo to Instagram/Facebook Story size.
Instagram and Facebook Stories use a tall, full-screen vertical format - a regular landscape or square photo needs to be resized specifically for this, or it'll display with black bars or an unwanted crop.
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Try Free Resume Builder Try Free Invoice BuilderStories are designed to fill a phone screen edge-to-edge in portrait orientation - a photo shot in landscape or square format will either get cropped tightly or padded with black bars unless it's resized to the 9:16 ratio first.
Yes - Facebook and Instagram Stories use the same 1080x1920px, 9:16 dimensions.
The tool crops to fit the vertical ratio, which will cut off the left and right edges of a landscape photo - for the full photo with padding instead, use Instagram (No Crop) as your starting point.