3000 × 3000 Image Converter

Where 3000 × 3000 is actually required

• Apple Podcasts cover art at the maximum allowed size
• Etsy listing photos at their upper limit
• Album artwork for music distribution
• Archive masters of square artwork

Which format to save it as

JPG at quality 90 keeps the file within most upload limits. PNG is acceptable but will be several times larger.

The thing that usually goes wrong

A 3000-pixel PNG of a detailed illustration can exceed a directory's file size cap. Export JPG for submission and keep the PNG as your master.

Crop first, then resize

The order matters more than people expect. Cropping decides what is in the frame and costs nothing in quality — it removes whole pixels rather than degrading the ones you keep. Resizing then scales what is left to the target. Do it the other way round and you resize detail you were about to throw away, which wastes quality on pixels that do not survive.

This is especially true for a square target like many of the sizes here. A landscape photo squeezed into a square loses the sides whatever you do — the only question is whether you choose what goes, or a platform does. Use the image cropper first if the framing matters.

Enlarging does not add detail

Scaling down is safe: the extra pixels genuinely are not needed. Scaling up is interpolation — the new pixels are averaged from their neighbours, which produces a smooth guess rather than recovered detail. It looks acceptable up to about 150% and soft beyond that. When you need a bigger version, go back to the original camera file, the RAW export or the vector source, all of which rasterise cleanly at any size.

Other sizes

• 64 × 64 — small icons and game sprites
• 128 × 128 — application icons and chat emoji
• 256 × 256 — windows icons and store thumbnails
• 300 × 300 — forum avatars and catalogue thumbnails
• 512 × 512 — pwa icons, android adaptive icons and ai model inputs
• 800 × 600 — email attachments and document embedding
• 1000 × 1000 — the amazon listing minimum for zoom
• 1024 × 1024 — ai image generation and the ios app store icon

Need a size that is not listed? The image resizer takes any width and height, and the aspect ratio calculator works out the second dimension when you only know the first.