Free Album Cover Resizer
Fit one picture to the cover sizes music platforms ask for: crop to fill, or keep it whole. Your picture is processed in your browser and never uploaded.
Your picture is processed in your browser and never uploaded to a server.
Drag the picture to choose the part you want, and zoom with the slider.
JPG is small; for a size with a file limit it is compressed to fit.
Your cover
Choose a picture and a size, frame it here, then click Export cover.
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AI Cover GeneratorHow to Resize an Album Cover
Three steps, all in your browser.
Choose your picture
Pick a JPG, PNG or WebP picture from your device, or drag it onto the upload box. Nothing is uploaded to a server.
Pick a size and frame it
Choose the size you need, then drag and zoom to frame the part you want. Or choose Keep whole to keep the entire picture and fill the empty bands with a blurred copy.
Export and download
Choose PNG or JPG, click Export, then download. For a size with a file limit, a JPG is compressed to fit it.
Why Use the SonusVid Album Cover Resizer
Your Picture Never Leaves Your Device
Framing and exporting happen entirely in your browser. The picture is never uploaded to any server.
Free and Unlimited
No sign-in and no credits. Export as many covers as you like.
The Common Cover Sizes, Ready to Pick
Square release art, the YouTube ratio (16:9) and the TikTok ratio (9:16), each labelled with where it is commonly used.
Crop to Fill, or Keep It Whole
Drag and zoom to choose the part you want, or keep the whole picture and fill the empty bands with a blurred copy of it.
Fits the File Size Limit
For a size with a file limit, JPG quality is lowered until it fits, and you see the final file size.
Works With Common Picture Formats
JPG, PNG and WebP up to 25MB; export as PNG or JPG.
Cover Sizes: Masters, Cropping and File Size
What size should a cover master be?
Streaming services and distributors want a square cover, and most guides name 3000×3000 pixels as the safe master size. A file that size, saved as a JPG or PNG in sRGB colour, is accepted almost everywhere and can be scaled down for the places that ask for less.
Some 2026 guides say Apple Music asks for 4000×4000, while others accept 3000. Bandcamp states 1400×1400 as its minimum and SoundCloud is usually given as 800×800. These figures come from third-party guides, not from the platforms, so check your distributor's own page before you upload.
Always start from the largest picture you have. A small picture stretched to 3000 pixels looks soft, and stores are known to reject covers that are visibly enlarged. The tool tells you when your picture has to be enlarged.
Crop to fill, or keep the whole picture?
Cover sizes come in different shapes. A square cover has to become a 16:9 video cover for YouTube, and a vertical 9:16 frame for short videos. The picture's own shape rarely matches, so something has to give.
Crop to fill scales the picture until it covers the whole frame and cuts off what hangs over the edge. You choose which part stays by dragging and zooming. It suits a picture whose subject sits in the middle.
Keep whole shows all of the picture, as large as it can be, and fills the empty bands with a blurred, darkened copy of the same picture. It is the usual way to turn a square cover into a wide video cover without losing the edges.
PNG, JPG and file size limits
PNG is lossless, so the picture is saved exactly as framed, and the file is large. JPG is smaller because it discards detail you are unlikely to notice. Use PNG for a master you may edit again, and JPG for a file you upload.
Some places set a size limit. YouTube thumbnails are commonly given as 2MB, and SoundCloud artwork as 2MB too. For those sizes the tool lowers the JPG quality step by step until the file fits, down to a floor, and shows the final size.
A PNG cannot be compressed this way. If it comes out over the limit you will see a notice, and switching to JPG usually solves it. The limit is advice from the guides: the file still downloads either way.
Common Cover Sizes
Every size here can be picked in the tool.
| Size | Pixels | Commonly used for | File size limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Streaming square | 3000×3000 | Spotify, Apple Music and distributors | None set |
| Large square | 4000×4000 | Some guides give this as Apple Music's size | None set |
| Bandcamp square | 1400×1400 | Bandcamp's minimum size | None set |
| SoundCloud square | 800×800 | Commonly recommended for SoundCloud, 2MB limit | 2 MB |
| YouTube thumbnail | 1280×720 | The usual YouTube thumbnail size, 2MB limit | 2 MB |
| YouTube Full HD | 1920×1080 | A larger master at the YouTube ratio, same 2MB limit | 2 MB |
| TikTok cover | 1080×1920 | The 9:16 size TikTok covers commonly use, also common for Reels and Shorts | None set |
- These sizes come from third-party guides, not from the platforms' own rules. Check your distributor's or platform's page before you upload.
- 1080×1920 is the picture and cover size guides commonly give for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, not a number those apps all set.
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