Add exact padding around a photo or fit it into a 1:1, 4:5, 16:9 or 9:16 canvas without cropping or stretching it.
The padded preview appears here.
Your file is never sent to a server. It is read and processed by your own browser, and the results are not stored.
Most “make it square” tools crop the photo, which throws away the edges. Padding takes the opposite approach: the whole picture stays, and the canvas grows around it. For a product photo, a print layout or a social post that must not lose content, that is usually the safer choice.
The aspect presets solve the common cases. A 4:5 preset adds space above and below a landscape photo, for example, while a 9:16 preset adds space left and right of a portrait. The picture is centred to the nearest pixel.
White is the default for forms and marketplaces. A brand colour can make a transparent logo sit on a consistent field. Transparent padding is useful when the result will be composited again, but it only survives in PNG; JPEG has no alpha channel.
No. Add Padding to Image runs in your browser, and the file is read there rather than sent to a server for processing. Our host still sees ordinary page-request metadata, which is described on the privacy page.
Yes, Add Padding to Image is free, with no paid tier, no account, and no watermark added to your output. The limits are technical rather than commercial: file size, page count and supported formats are listed on this page.
Add Padding to Image supports .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .webp files up to 25MB directly in your browser.
Padding enlarges the canvas around the picture, so the original pixels keep their size and gain breathing room. A border is drawn around the picture inside the same canvas. Use the Add Border tool when you want a visible frame rather than extra space.
No. The original pixels are placed at their exact size and centred. Padding fills the remaining area with your chosen colour or transparency. Nothing is scaled or cropped.
Yes. Choose “Fit to aspect ratio” and Square · 1:1. The tool adds space on the short side and keeps the whole picture. For a 4:5 feed post or a 9:16 story, choose the matching preset.
Yes for PNG output. JPEG cannot store transparency, so transparent padding is refused for JPEG or flattened to white. The tool states which behaviour applies before you download.