# How to Batch Crop Wedding Photos for Instagram, Print and Client Galleries

You just shot a wedding. Somewhere between 200 and 2000 images are sitting on your drive, culled and edited, ready to go out. Now you need to deliver them in three different places at three different sizes.

The full gallery goes to the couple. A selection goes to Instagram in your carousel style. A few hero shots get printed for the album mock-up or your portfolio. Each destination wants different dimensions, and cropping them one by one is how a weekend disappears.

Here is how to handle all three from a single edited batch without opening Photoshop.

## The Three Delivery Formats Wedding Photographers Actually Need

Most wedding photographers deliver the same images in three different contexts.

**Client gallery.** Full resolution, original dimensions, no cropping. This is what the couple sees when they log into your gallery platform. The images stay as edited.

**Instagram.** Cropped to platform dimensions. 1080x1350 pixels for feed posts, 1080x1080 pixels for carousels or grid consistency, and 1080x1440 pixels for the new Instagram profile grid.

**Print and portfolio.** Cropped to specific dimensions for album layouts, print sizes, or your website. Common ones include 3000x2000 pixels for 6x4 inch standard prints, 3500x2500 pixels for 7x5 inch framed prints, and 1920x1080 pixels for portfolio hero images.

The problem is that most photographers do this cropping either inside Lightroom one image at a time, or by taking each hero shot into Photoshop and manually cropping to each size. Both approaches work. Both are slow.

## The Faster Workflow

Instead of cropping the same image five different ways in five different tools, crop once per destination in a browser-based batch tool.

1.  Export your final edited images from Lightroom at full resolution as JPG.
    
2.  Open MintyCrop in your browser and drag the batch in.
    
3.  Set your first output size, adjust the crop position per image if needed, and export.
    
4.  Change the output size, adjust again if needed, export.
    
5.  Repeat for as many formats as you need.
    

Each export produces a full set of correctly cropped files in the right dimensions. Nothing is uploaded anywhere. Your client's photos never leave your computer, which matters for privacy and for delivery day when Wi-Fi is unpredictable.

## Cropping for the Client Gallery

For the full gallery, you usually do not need to crop at all. Deliver the images as edited. Where cropping does come in is when the couple has requested specific dimensions for their photo book or wedding album, and you want to prepare a subset of images at those exact sizes ahead of time.

Common album sizes are 3000x3000 pixels for a 10x10 inch album page, 3000x3750 pixels for an 8x10 inch page, and 3600x2400 pixels for a 12x8 inch spread. Set your custom size in MintyCrop, drop in the selection, and adjust the crop position per image so the couple's faces stay in the frame.

## Cropping for Instagram

Wedding photographers get more Instagram engagement from vertical portraits than any other format. 1080x1350 pixels fills more of the mobile screen and stops the scroll.

For a carousel, use 1080x1080 pixels with all slides aligned. If you shot a wide bridal portrait or a panoramic ceremony scene, split it across a 2, 3, or 4 tile carousel so the image flows across slides as viewers swipe.

For the new Instagram profile grid, 1080x1440 pixels displays without cropping. This is worth using for hero shots you want to appear uncropped on your grid.

MintyCrop lets you save all of these as presets, so once you have your Instagram formats set up you just drag in a batch, adjust each image's focal point, and export.

## Cropping for Print and Portfolio

Print sizes vary depending on where you are delivering.

**Standard photo prints.** 6x4 inch prints need 1800x1200 pixels at 300 DPI. 7x5 inch prints need 2100x1500 pixels. 10x8 inch prints need 3000x2400 pixels. If you are preparing images for a print lab, crop to the exact dimensions the lab requires so nothing gets cut off during printing.

**Album layouts.** Most wedding album designers work with 3600x2400 pixels for horizontal spreads and 2400x3000 or 2400x3600 pixels for vertical pages. Check with your album designer for their preferred dimensions before cropping.

**Portfolio website.** 1920x1080 pixels or 2000x1333 pixels for horizontal hero images, 1200x1500 or 1200x1600 pixels for vertical. Consistency matters more than exact dimensions here. Pick one horizontal and one vertical size and stick to them across your site.

## HEIC Files From Second Shooters

If your second shooter uses an iPhone for behind the scenes shots, you might end up with HEIC files that Windows or your editing tool struggles to open. MintyCrop handles HEIC files natively. Drop them into the same batch as your JPGs, crop and export, and they come out as JPG, PNG, or WebP in the size you need.

## What to Do the Night Before Delivery

The workflow that saves the most time on delivery day is prepping formats the night before.

Export your final edited gallery from Lightroom. Drop the full batch into MintyCrop. Do your Instagram crops first, since those need the most per-image attention for focal points. Then do your print crops, then your portfolio crops. By the time you are ready to send the gallery link and post a preview, everything is already sitting in folders labeled by destination.

This turns delivery from an afternoon of cropping into a five minute upload.

## The Short Version

Wedding photographers need the same images at multiple sizes. The bottleneck is not editing, it is the last-mile cropping into every required dimension. Doing it in Lightroom or Photoshop is slow. A browser-based batch cropper handles the whole set in one session per size, keeps client photos on your device, and supports HEIC files from second shooters without conversion.

Try it free at mintycrop.com