Resize & pixels
Avatar box cut your face off? The form only wants longest side 800 — crop or resize?
The profile circle sliced a forehead. The admin panel said longest side 800, or just “image too large.” Those look like the same error. They are not. This page helps you decide: crop a square, or shrink the long edge — and which of those you can batch.
The avatar box cut a face. The form only wrote 800
A social profile dropped your photo into a circle and sliced the forehead. A signup admin said longest side 800, or just image too large. Both feel like “the file is wrong.” One is a square problem. The other is a pixel cap. Cropping a batch of faces will not fix the second. Shrinking a wide phone shot will not put the hairline back in the first.
Three refusals that look like “too big”
Read what they actually asked for. Use the cards as a decision, not a feature list:
Social avatar, face cut off
They want a square or a circle, not a smaller 16:9. Lock 1:1 in Crop, keep the head inside the box, then resize only if they also named pixels. A 1:1 social preset on a landscape shot uses cover — it will slice the sides. The ID crop guide is that first pass.
Signup / ID exact pixels
Copy like 295×413 or 413×579 is a width × height after the frame is right. If the ratio is still 16:9, crop the 1-inch / 3:4 window first. Once every portrait shares the same frame, Resize can stamp those pixels on the whole set.
Backend: longest side 800
“Longest edge ≤ 800”, “max 1920px”, or a silent pixel reject is a scale job. Lock the ratio, put 800 on the long side, turn on only-shrink. Do not crop a square unless they asked for one. Do not chase quality — that is a different cap, the target KB guide.
Resize can batch the same pixels or the same long-edge cap. Crop is one photo at a time. Each original ≤ 20MB. Decoding stays in the browser — nothing is uploaded.
How to shrink without stretching
Open Image711's Resize. Decoding and export stay in your browser. Drop a stack when every file shares one rule; keep each file ≤ 20MB.
- Drop one or many files: JPG / PNG / WebP / GIF. Multi-select is fine. If the file is still iPhone
.heicand the page will not open it, convert first — the HEIC to JPG guide — then come back. - Lock the ratio, then pick the rule: longest side 800 on a landscape shot → width 800, lock on. A tall 3:4 shot → set width near 600 so the long side lands on 800. Exact ID pixels → type both sides after the crop. Unlock only if you want stretch — you usually do not.
- Only shrink when they wrote a max: a 640-wide file should not be blown up to 800. Preview one face. If the head is already clipped, stop and crop; do not export the batch.
- Export the set: singles or a zip. Need a white backdrop after the pixels are right? That is the cut-out and fill-white guide. A name or logo goes on before a heavy compress — the watermark guide.
When 800px still fails
The long edge is legal and the form still says too large: they meant KB, not pixels. Hit the number with Compress. If they also want a square, crop first — resize will not invent a 1:1 frame. Stay local so an ID or a profile shot never leaves the device.
The short version
Avatar box cut a face: crop the square, then resize if they named pixels. Backend only wrote longest side 800: lock the ratio and shrink — that step batches. First ask whether it is a pixel cap or just a square. Each file ≤ 20MB. Nothing is uploaded.
About resizing avatars and long-edge caps
Can I resize a whole batch of avatars at once?
Yes — if every file needs the same pixels or the same longest-side cap. Image711 Resize accepts multiple JPG / PNG / WebP / GIF files and applies one width, height, or percentage to the set. Crop cannot batch: each face sits in a different place, so the box has to move photo by photo. Keep each original ≤ 20MB.
The avatar box already cut the face. Should I resize again?
No. Shrinking will not put the hairline back. If they want a square or a circle, crop 1:1 first and keep the head inside the box — the ID crop guide walks through that — then resize only if they also named a pixel size. A 1:1 social preset on a wide phone shot uses cover and will slice the sides.
The form said “image too large.” Resize or compress?
Read the next line. “Longest side 800” or “max 1920px” is a pixel cap — lock the ratio and shrink. “Under 200KB” or “file must be ≤ 2MB” is a size cap — use the target KB guide. If they only said “too large” and nothing else, check the file’s pixel dimensions first; a 12-megapixel phone shot is usually the long edge, not the quality slider.
Are the original photos uploaded to a server?
No. Image711 resizes in your browser. The original stays on the device; nothing is sent to an upload backend for processing.