Cropping panoramic photos for social and the web: focus and rule of thirds
xcropimage.io Team
Turn wide landscapes into vertical or square crops without losing the subject using thirds.
Introduction
Panoramas are strong horizontally, but vertical crops are often needed for feeds.
Earlier in this series: SVG vs raster · Pinterest vertical strategy · Favicons.
Composition
Place the hero subject on thirds intersections—Adobe’s composing photos primer helps.
Tools
Lock ratios with crop and export sizes with resize.
Conclusion
If you overlay text, follow vertical safe areas.