The mode decides what happens to the picture. Everything else is a detail on top of it. Pick the one that matches the job.
Where to find it
Open Resize Products or Resize Collections and look under Resize settings → Resize mode. The same choices are in Settings → Default resize settings, which is the starting point every resize screen opens with.
How to set it up
Choose what to run on
Pick the products or collections first. See Choosing which products to run on.Pick a resize mode
Use the table below. Longest side is the recommended starting point.Set the size, and the fit style if you chose Width and height
Then set the quality, the output format and whether to strip camera metadata.Press Preview before and after
Check the result on your own photos before anything is written.Press Resize now
Confirm, and the run starts in the background.
Options
| 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 |
| Target file size | Compresses to a target file size: steps the quality down until the file is under the size you name. If that is still not enough, the longest side is also capped at 2,000 pixels as a last resort. | 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: white, black or transparent. Nothing is cut off and every image ends up the same size. JPEG has no transparency, so transparent padding becomes white in a JPEG.
The controls that sit on top
- Quality, a slider from 30 to 100 that trades file size against detail. The default is 82. Target file size does not use it, because it sets the quality itself.
- 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.
Plan required
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