Expand Photo

The photo is perfect but the frame is wrong: a portrait that needs to be a website banner, a square that has to become a 9:16 story, a headshot cropped so tight there is no room for a title. Expand Photo extends the picture outward. Choose the target ratio and the Studio continues the scene beyond the original edges — more wall, more sky, more floor, more of the blurred background — so the result looks like it was shot wider in the first place. Everything inside the original edges is unchanged.

Eight targets are available, from wide 16:9 and 3:2 through 4:3, square and the portrait ratios to story 9:16. It is the fix for a group photo that lost someone at the edge, a couple photo that needs to become a holiday card, a headshot that must fill a LinkedIn banner, and any social post that has to be re-cut for another platform. The tool reads the direction of the light and the texture of the surroundings so the extension has no seam.

A Standard run costs 4 credits and takes seconds; Pro and Max finishes reproduce complex backgrounds such as foliage, fabric and architecture with more fidelity. Expand sits at the end of most chains — shoot, retouch, expand to the final frame, upscale — and it is the safest way to get a wide image out of a portrait tool such as Professional Headshot. Compare against the original with one tap before downloading.