1080 × 1920 resize — center crop

Worked example

Resize a PNG to 1080×1920 for a Reel or Story with center crop: 1600×1000 becomes 3072×1920, 996px cut per side.

A 1080×1920 frame is full-screen 9:16 and serves Reels, Stories and cover images. Put the headline in that band and keep it large, since the profile grid may show only a centered crop of the cover. The crop fills the whole 1080×1920 frame, so those zones sit on real picture content; check that nothing you need in the PNG lands under them.

Center crop scales the PNG by ×1.92 until it fills the frame, then trims 996px from each side of the canvas. That keeps the central 562.5px of the source width (35.2%), so 518.8px at each side of the original is gone for good. Reserve it for narrow vertical subjects in the center, such as a bottle, a standing person or a door; a typical landscape loses almost two thirds of its width.

PNG is lossless, so the crop adds no compression artifacts and any transparency in the source survives. The price is size: a photographic PNG at 1080×1920 commonly lands around 2.7 to 5 MB, several times a JPG, while flat graphics in solid colours stay far smaller. Platforms generally recompress uploads, so a large PNG costs upload time without keeping its lossless quality on screen.

A café owner turns a 1600×1000 PNG latte photo into a Story and gets a 563px-wide slice with the cup cut in half, enlarged ×1.92 so the foam looks soft. Shoot a vertical original at 1080×1920 or larger instead of forcing a landscape one. A PNG of this kind is around 2.7 to 5 MB; if the upload is slow or refused, that weight is the usual cause, not the 1080×1920 pixel size.

Confirm 1080×1920, then lay a rough mask of 250px at the top and 340px at the bottom over a screenshot of the result; any text under the mask has to move. Compare with the original side by side to see exactly what the crop removed. The file is saved as name-preset.png; open it in a viewer with a checkerboard background to confirm what is transparent, and compare the size with the estimate above.

1600 × 1000 px · PNG

1080 × 1920 px · PNG

PNG at 1080×1920: the 996px trim is geometry for a 1600×1000 source; a different source ratio changes it, and the tool does not warn you before it cuts.