TikTok is a short-form video hosting service. It hosts all kinds of user-submitted videos with a duration from 15 seconds to 10 minutes but less than 2 GB. TikTok supports MP4 or WebM video formats of at least 720×1280 resolution.
Why Need to Resize Picture for TikTok?
No matter where the picture comes from, still photography or a moment of a video, you need to regulate it to make it compatible with the required size of TikTok. It is common to have standards for user-uploaded pictures or videos for making a unified streaming scene for others.
On the other hand, you may need to adjust your source photo/video to make it more suitable for the watching habit of people. For example, we usually see a sea beach sunset in landscape ratio and a tall building in portrait view.
What Size Should You Crop Images on TikTok?
According to the requirements of TikTok, the pictures posted on its platform should not be smaller than 20 x 20 pixels. The most optimal TikTok profile photo size is 200 x 200px.
As for TikTok videos, they should be 1080 x 1920px and its in-feed ad video aspect ratio can be 16:9, 9:16, or 1:1.
How to Crop a Photo on TikTok?
In general, it is easy and quick to do photo crop TikTok. You just need to finish it while posting a story. The following will take the TikTok mobile app for example to show you how to resize photos for TikTok.
Step 1. Open TikTok and sign into your account.
Step 2. Tap on the plus icon at the bottom center to create a new post. Then, select the image that you plan to crop and post on TikTok.
Step 3. Select the pencil icon in the top right corner and choose the Crop tool.
Step 4. Now, you can start cropping the target picture. You can either manually drag the frame box borders to shrink the range or select a preset aspect ratio to resize the photo.
Step 5. Click Done to finish cropping and continue posting your image.
Finally, you have successfully cropped your photo and posted it on TikTok.
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Photo Crop Challenge TikTok
In July 2021, there came up with a wave of a challenge for featuring people attempting to squeeze into cropped frames. It has become massively popular on TikTok with millions of views in only several days from the start.
If you are still interested in the TikTok photo crop challenge and want to have a try, you can follow this guide.
- Launch TikTok and click the + icon to start recording videos.
- Tap Effects in the bottom left of the screen.
- Under Trending, find the photo crop challenge (a face with a purple background) and select it. Or, you can directly search for “photo crop challenge” in Discover and choose it.
- Then, start recording your video.
- Edit your recorded video by adding background music and others.
- Finally, post your video.
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Helen enjoys the process of turning video clips and photos about herself into beautiful videos. Then, she will share the videos on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc. The most exciting thing is to see the increasing number of views of her videos. Helen is willing to share her ideas about making wonderful videos from scratch. Thus, she writes articles for MiniTool Technology.