Resume Photo Resizer - Free CV & LinkedIn Headshot Maker

Get a clean, correctly sized headshot for your resume, CV or job-portal profile in seconds. Crop to LinkedIn's square, a 35×45 mm CV photo, or any custom size, add a white or solid background, and export a JPG that fits the upload's file-size limit. Runs entirely in your browser — your photo is never uploaded.

Your Photo
Drop your photo or click to browse
JPG or PNG — a head-and-shoulders shot works best
White is standard for formal CV photos.
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Common resume photo sizes
UsePixelsPhysicalNotes
LinkedIn / profile400 × 400—Square, shown in a circle
Digital resume headshot600 × 600—High-res square
European CV photo413 × 53135 × 45 mm @ 300 DPIMost common print CV size
Compact CV photo295 × 41325 × 35 mm @ 300 DPISmaller passport-style
Job portal thumbnail200 × 200—Naukri, Indeed and similar
Always check the exact requirement on the employer's or portal's upload page.

About resume and CV photos

Whether a CV should carry a photo depends entirely on where you're applying. In much of Europe, the Middle East and Asia a neat head-and-shoulders photo is expected on a CV, usually a 35×45 mm portrait against a plain background. In the US, UK, Canada and Australia the convention is the opposite — photos are deliberately left off paper resumes to avoid bias, and the only headshot that matters is the square one on your LinkedIn profile. This tool covers both worlds: pick the print CV preset or the square profile preset depending on the norm where you're job-hunting.

Getting the crop right. A good resume photo is a tight head-and-shoulders shot with your face filling most of the frame and a little space above your head. Start from the highest-resolution photo you have, choose Fill so the tool crops to the exact proportions without squashing your face, and add a white background for a formal CV. Keep the file under the portal's KB limit — many job sites silently reject anything over 100–200 KB — and the size badge turns green once you're safely under. Because the cropping runs on the HTML5 Canvas in your browser, your photo is never uploaded to us.

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Frequently Asked Questions

There's no single global standard, but the most common are a 35×45 mm photo for European-style CVs (about 413×531 px at 300 DPI) and a square 400×400 or 600×600 px headshot for digital resumes and profiles. Pick the preset that matches where you're submitting, or enter a custom size.

LinkedIn accepts square images from 400×400 px up to 7680×7680 px, under 8 MB. 400×400 is the practical sweet spot — sharp on every device without a huge file. Use the LinkedIn preset, which crops to a perfect square so your face stays centred in the circular frame.

For a formal CV photo, yes — a plain white or light-grey background looks professional and prints cleanly. This tool can lay a solid background behind your headshot. For LinkedIn and other on-screen profiles a tasteful real background is fine, so you can keep the original instead.

The Fill mode crops to the exact target shape, zooming so your head fills the frame without distortion — that's what you want for a square headshot. Fit mode instead shrinks the whole photo inside the box and pads the edges, useful when you must keep the entire image.

Not specifically. Passport and visa photos have strict face-position and biometric rules. For those, use our visa & passport photo maker. This tool is for resume, CV and profile headshots, where the rules are about size and a tidy crop rather than biometrics.

Set the max file size and the tool adjusts JPG quality with a binary search until the image fits, showing the result on the size badge — green when it's under the limit. Job portals often cap photos at 50–200 KB, so this stops the “file too large” rejection.

No. All cropping and resizing happens in your browser with HTML5 Canvas. Your photo never leaves your device — there's no upload, no account, and nothing is stored after you close the tab.

Use the highest-resolution photo you have. Scaling a large image down keeps it crisp; blowing a small image up makes it soft and blocky. A modern phone selfie or a photo from a friend's camera is more than enough for any resume size.

JPG is the safe default — it's universally accepted and compresses photographs efficiently, which matters for KB limits. Choose PNG only if the application specifically asks for it or you need a transparent background; photos rarely benefit from PNG.