Turn a landscape photo into portrait without cropping

Add height instead of cutting width. Open the photo in the tool above, keep 4:5 or pick 3:4 or 9:16, and new space appears above and below it. Fill that space with blur, a color, mirrored edges or Smart fill, then download. The picture is neither trimmed nor squeezed, so it keeps its full width and its original proportions.

Open it in the tool above: 4:5 is already set, so the canvas grows above and below while the photo stays whole, and Blur fills the new space at once. Download a JPG, PNG or WebP. There is no sign-up, and the photo stays on your device unless you pick the optional Generative AI fill, which works through your own API key.

Because its whole width is kept. A landscape photo stays as wide as the portrait frame, so it can only fill part of the height: a 4:3 photo covers 60% of a 4:5 frame, and a 16:9 photo covers 32% of a 9:16 frame. The rest is new space above and below. To make the photo bigger in the frame, its sides have to go, which is what crop image does.

Only if the picture was saved sideways. A quarter turn does make a wide image tall, but an upright scene then has its horizon standing on end. To put a sideways photo the right way up, use the rotate image tool. For an upright photo that is simply too wide, add space above and below here instead.

For big gaps, such as 16:9 to 9:16, a soft blur or a plain color looks deliberate, because more than half of the result is new. Smart fill works best for small gaps, such as 4:3 to 4:5, where it only has to carry sky, water, sand or a floor a short way. Texture fill repeats patches of your own photo, which suits even surfaces. For a bigger change with Smart fill, grow the canvas in two smaller steps with Uncrop the result again.

Instagram's Help Center says a feed photo keeps its shape when it is between 1.91:1 and 3:4, and it is saved at up to 1080 pixels wide. So the tallest feed photo is 1080 x 1440 (3:4), and a 4:5 portrait post is 1080 x 1350. Stories use the full-screen 9:16 shape, and Meta recommends 1080 x 1920 for Stories ads. Switch to Exact size here for those presets, or use Instagram no crop, which opens on 1080 x 1350.

Yes, in two ways. Smart fill runs LaMa, an open inpainting model, free inside your browser and paints sky, water or ground above and below the photo. The model, about 62 MB, downloads on first use, and the result is most convincing when the gaps are small. When a person or object is cut off at the top or bottom, the Generative AI fill sends the photo to an image provider such as OpenAI or Google Gemini through your own API key, and the provider bills you. The AI image extender explains that option.

Use this page in Safari, Chrome or another phone browser; no app is needed and the steps match the computer version. Pick 9:16 for a full-screen Story or 4:5 for a feed post, then tap Download. Our guides to uncropping a photo on iPhone and uncropping a photo on Android cover the options built into each phone.

Yes, but it becomes a thin strip: a 3:1 panorama fills only 27% of the height of a 4:5 frame, and the rest is new. To show it large on Instagram, cut it into a seamless carousel with the Instagram carousel splitter instead.

Not on this page, which works on photos. For a video, turn a horizontal video vertical the same way: the whole video sits across the middle of a 9:16, 4:5 or 1:1 frame over a blurred copy of itself, and it is made on your device.

A 4000 x 3000 photo turned into 9:16 becomes 4000 x 7111 pixels, about 28 megapixels. Computers and Android phones save that at full size, because the limit there is about 40 megapixels. On iPhone and iPad the limit is about 16 megapixels, so the same result is saved at 3000 x 5333. Choose 75% or 50% under Size if you want a lighter file anyway.