In this piece, you’ll learn how to Crop Photo in 16:9 Ratio. In the end, we will get an image with a 16×9 aspect ratio. It’s a very helpful way to make a cover for a movie you want to put on YouTube or your website. In short, the aspect ratio tells you how big a picture is. Most modern TVs, monitors, and phones have HD screens with a 16:9 aspect ratio.
This is just one reason why you might want to scale a picture to fit. Have you ever tweeted a picture that was very short and wide, maybe just a couple of lines of text, and it got cropped so badly that people had to click on the image to see the full text? Well, here you can make that picture 16×9, which is how Twitter displays it, so that people can read your image text right away.
How to Crop Photo in 16:9 Ratio
If you are using a version of Windows 11/10, this is ridiculously easy to do with Windows Photo Gallery, which is part of the free Windows Essentials suite. Even though you can’t download Windows Essentials anymore, if you already have it on your computer, you can do this job without any problems.
- Start Windows Photo Gallery and load your image.
- Click Crop, Proportion, Widescreen (16×9)
- Resize the box to what you want displayed in the final image.
- Click Crop again; the image is cropped.
- Then Close the program, the image is saved with the new dimensions.
- That’s all there is to it. Retrieve the image file and upload where you wish.
If you have Windows 11/10, then you can achieve the same end with the Photos app. Again, start Photos and load your image
- Click Edit & Create, Crop & Rotate, Aspect Ratio.
- Select the 16:9 aspect ratio, and move the box around to get the part of the image you want to crop.
- Click Done, and voila, the image has been resized. Save it and you’re ready to go.
What Is 16:9 Aspect Ratio?
The aspect ratio of a picture or screen is the relationship between its width and height. The 16:9 aspect ratio means that there are 16 units of width and 9 units of height. Depending on the gadget, you can measure a unit in pixels, inches, or millimeters, among other ways.
In movies and on TV, the 16:9 aspect ratio is used to describe a picture that is 16 units wide and 9 units long. Also said sixteen-nine, sixteen-to-nine, sixteen-by-nine, or 16 by 9. This number is also called 1.77:1 or 1.78:1. It was made in the 1980s and 1990s.
Since the 2000s, it has been the standard for high-definition TVs, screens, and computers. 16:9 usually, if not always, refers to TV screens and monitors, just like 4:3, while the more technical 1.77:1 refers to celluloid and film/TV projects.