Expand a photo

Print a photo at 4×6 without cropping

Print the whole photo at 4×6, 5×7 or A4 — we add a border instead of trimming.

or drop a photo here · paste works too

A photo straight off the phone or camera.

  • Free
  • No sign-up
  • Photos stay on your device
A portrait with an even white border added on all four sides, ready to print.
The photo before it was expandedBefore
After White border added · 6% each side

For this conversion the model is within reach: about 252 new columns on each side, 8 passes of about 19 seconds in total, after a one-time download you have to agree to. A white border is what the page starts on, and it needs no download at all.

Measured on a 4032 x 3024 phone photo: a 4,536 x 3,024 canvas, 252 new columns a side. Open your own photograph and the rail recomputes all of it against that file. It continues a wall, a sky, a lawn, gravel, water or a soft out-of-focus background, because those carry on past the frame in a way that is predictable from the edge itself. Every limit, in one table.

4 × 6, 5 × 7, 8 × 10 or A4: the canvas takes the print's shape by adding a border, so the whole photo reaches the paper — with a DPI check for the size you pick.

Opens at 4 × 6 (3:2) with a white border, turned to your photo's orientation. The chips switch print size; the Print check line gives the DPI.

The lab will crop a 4:3 phone photo to 3:2 — this adds a border instead

A 4032 × 3024 phone photo at each print, computed by this site's own geometry
PrintCanvasBorder addedResolution
4 × 6 in4,536 × 3,024252 px left and right756 DPI
5 × 7 in4,234 × 3,024101 px left and right605 DPI
8 × 10 in4,032 × 3,226101 px top and bottom403 DPI
A44,277 × 3,024123 px left and right366 DPI

The awkward questions

Why does the lab crop my phone photos at 4 × 6?

A phone shoots 4:3 and a 4 × 6 print is 3:2, which is wider. To fill the paper, the lab trims the top and bottom. This page does the opposite: it adds a border on the short sides until the photo has the print's shape, so the lab has nothing to trim.

Which print sizes are there?

4 × 6 (3:2), 5 × 7 (7:5), 8 × 10 (5:4) and A4 (1:1.414). The chips turn to match your photo, so a portrait photo gets a portrait print. White is the default border; any colour, a blur or a mirror is in the Fill tab.

Will it be sharp enough?

The panel works it out: the file's long side in pixels divided by the print's long side in inches. 300 DPI is full print quality; around 200 is fine in a frame and soft up close. It tells you which, for your photo, at the print size you picked.

Does the file carry a DPI setting?

No — this version writes no DPI tag into the file, and says so. Labs print by the size you order; tell them 4 × 6 and the file fills it exactly.

Is my photo uploaded?

No. It is opened, bordered and saved by this tab.

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