Running a resize
Choosing a resize mode
Fit, fill, pad or exact: which mode keeps your product visible and which will crop it.
The mode decides what happens to the picture. Everything else is a detail on top of it. Pick the one that matches the job.
| Mode | What it does | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| Longest side | Caps the longer edge at the size you set. The shape is kept. It only ever makes an image smaller. | One safe rule across a mixed catalog |
| Width and height | Targets an exact frame. You choose the fit style below. | A tidy, even product grid |
| Scale by percentage | Scales every image by 5 to 400 percent. Above 100 percent it enlarges. | Shrinking everything by the same amount |
| Compress to a target file size | Steps the quality down until the file is under the size you name. | Slow pages caused by heavy files |
| Watermark only | Stamps your logo and leaves the pixel size alone. | Branding photos you already sized |
The three fit styles
When you choose Width and height, you also choose how each photo is placed into that frame.
- Fit inside, the whole image sits inside the frame and keeps its own shape. Nothing is cut off. Images that already fit are left alone.
- Crop to fill the frame, the image fills the frame exactly, centered, and the edges that do not fit are trimmed. This one can enlarge a smaller image, which is how you get a grid where every card is the same size.
- Pad to an exact size, the whole image is kept and the gaps are filled with a background color you choose. Nothing is cut off and every image ends up the same size.
The controls that sit on top
- Quality, a slider that trades file size against detail.
- Output format, keep the original format, or convert everything to JPEG, WebP or AVIF.
- Strip camera and EXIF metadata, removes the camera model, the software name and any GPS location left in the file by the photographer.
- Skip anything already the right size, leaves images that already meet your settings untouched.
Nothing is rewritten unless it changes: if your settings would leave an image exactly as it is, Miko skips it and moves on. A skipped image is never charged, so running the whole catalog after a partial run does not cost you twice.
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