By MiniCrafts · Updated
Width and height can describe two different requirements. A maximum of 800 × 800 means the result must fit inside a box. An exact 800 × 800 avatar must also have a square shape. Resizing a wide photograph cannot satisfy that shape requirement while keeping the whole photograph and its proportions.
Compare the two results before editing
The dashed square shows the largest centered 1:1 crop. It keeps 1000 × 1000 original pixels and removes 300 pixels from each side. Moving the crop changes which pixels are retained; it does not restore the removed sides.
Exercise 1: fit the entire image into a box
- Open Resize and select Try example. This generates a 1600 × 1000 landscape locally.
- Set maximum width to 800 and maximum height to 800, then apply.
- Check the result details: the output is 800 × 500. The complete landscape remains visible.
The scale factor is the smaller of 800 ÷ 1600 and 800 ÷ 1000, which is 0.5. Applying the same factor to both dimensions gives 800 × 500. A different original ratio gives a different height, so copying a size from somebody else's example is not enough.
Exercise 2: make the exact square
- Open Crop & rotate, choose Try example, and select the 1:1 crop ratio.
- Keep the centered crop initially. Adjust the position if the subject needs more space on one side.
- Under the optional maximum dimensions, enter 800 for both width and height. Keep rotation at 0° for this example.
- Apply and check for an 800 × 800 result. Compare the preview with the original before downloading.
The tool crops the largest square first, then scales it down. If you resize the complete landscape to 800 × 500 first and crop that output later, the largest square is only 500 × 500. Start each exercise with the original to avoid that unnecessary loss.
When the required size is larger than the original
MiniCrafts does not enlarge images. A 500 × 500 source stays at most 500 × 500 when you enter 800 × 800. Find a larger original if the destination requires exactly 800 pixels. Changing the numbers in a form cannot recover missing detail.
Check shape and bytes separately
An 800 × 800 square can still exceed a file-size limit. If the destination also requires less than 200 KB, keep the required dimensions and use Compress with a small margin. Turn off Reduce dimensions if needed when the pixels must remain exact. If the result cannot fit the byte limit, the tool should report the over-limit result; it is not permission to silently shrink a required square.
Inspect faces, text and edges in the downloaded result. Crop removes content, compression can remove detail, and format conversion can change transparency. Keep the original and select the new downloaded file when uploading. The browser editor processes these images locally; AI Photo Studio is a separate cloud service.
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