To split an image into 9, drop your file into the splitter above. It crops to a square, then cuts a 3 by 3 grid of nine equal tiles. Download them as a ZIP with numbered names in posting order. The whole job runs in your browser and nothing is uploaded.
Drop an image here
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JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP and AVIF, up to 50 MB.
Drag any line to move a cut. Tab to a line and use the arrow keys to nudge it one pixel, or hold shift for ten.
Vertical cuts give side-by-side pieces. Horizontal cuts stack them.
The tool picks the rows and columns that keep the pieces closest to square.
A shared strip on each seam, so the sheets can be trimmed and taped.
Each piece is resized to the size this page targets before it is saved.
Your image never leaves your device. Splitting runs in your browser with the Canvas API.
Instagram puts your newest post at the top left of the profile grid and pushes everything else right and down. Post in this order and the picture lands the right way up. The number on each square is when to upload it, so the bottom right tile goes first and the top left tile goes 9th.
| Pieces | 9, in 3 rows of 3 |
|---|---|
| Cut lines | 2 vertical, 2 horizontal |
| Crop before splitting | Each piece comes out 1:1, so the source is trimmed from the centre first. |
| Pieces from a 1080 × 1080 Instagram square | 360 × 360 px |
| Pieces from a 1080 × 1350 portrait | 360 × 360 px |
| Pieces from a 4000 × 3000 phone photo | 1000 × 1000 px |
| Pieces from a 1920 × 1080 screenshot | 360 × 360 px |
| Upload order | tile 9 first, tile 1 last |
Nine tiles is the Instagram grid split. One picture spread across nine posts, filling three full rows of a profile, is still the most-used trick for turning a feed into a billboard.
Because the grid is square, this preset crops to 1:1 before it cuts. A 1080 × 1080 px source gives nine 360 × 360 px tiles, which is the size Instagram wants and the size it stops rescaling at. Feed a rectangular photo in and you choose where the square crop sits before the nine cuts happen.
Posting order is the part people get wrong. A profile grid fills from the top left with the newest post, so you upload in reverse: bottom right tile first, top left tile last. The tool numbers the files in that order so you can work down the list without thinking about it.
One warning worth knowing before you spend an afternoon on this. Instagram now crops profile thumbnails to 3:4 portrait rather than square, so a nine-square grid shows with the top and bottom of each tile trimmed in the grid view. Tapping a post still shows the full square. Keep faces and text in the middle band of each tile and the grid survives the crop.
Outside Instagram, nine is the photo wall count: three by three frames on a stairwell, or nine sheets taped into a poster.
One image across nine posts fills three rows of a profile. Crop square, split into nine 360 × 360 px tiles, then upload starting with the bottom right and finishing with the top left. Post them in one sitting, because anything else you publish in between pushes the grid out of alignment.
Nine identical frames in a 3 by 3 arrangement turn one photograph into a wall piece. Split at 1:1 so every frame gets the same crop, print at full tile resolution, and let the mount board provide the gaps. A high resolution source matters here: each tile is only a ninth of the original.
Nine tiles printed and shuffled makes a reassembly exercise for a classroom or a party. Number the backs from the file names, which carry the row and column, so you can check the answer without solving it yourself. Card stock holds up better than paper to repeated handling.
A 3 by 3 contact sheet exported from a camera or a design tool comes back as one flat image. Split it into nine to recover each frame as its own file for review, comments or upload. Drag the cut lines to sit in the gutters if the sheet has margins around each frame.
Crop the image square, then split it 3 by 3 to get nine equal tiles. Upload them in reverse order, bottom right first, so the grid assembles correctly. This page does the crop and the cut in one pass and numbers the files in the order you should post them.
Start from a square source of 1080 × 1080 px or larger, which gives nine 360 × 360 px tiles. Instagram shows feed images at up to 1080 pixels wide, so anything bigger than that gives you cropping headroom but no extra detail once it is posted.
Backwards. A profile grid puts the newest post in the top left and pushes older posts right and down, so the tile you want in the top left has to be posted last. Start with the bottom right tile and work along each row from right to left, bottom row upward.
No. Every new post shifts the whole grid one square, so a nine-tile picture breaks up as soon as you publish anything after it. The grid stays intact only while it is the most recent nine posts. Plan it as a temporary layout or accept that it will scroll away.
It trims it. Profile thumbnails are now cropped to 3:4 portrait rather than square, so the top and bottom of each square tile is hidden in grid view. The full square still shows when someone taps a post. Keep important detail in the middle band of each tile.
Yes, but something has to give. This preset crops the source to 1:1 first and lets you choose where that square sits, then cuts nine equal squares from it. If you would rather keep the full frame and accept rectangular tiles, use the plain 3x3 split instead.
Same nine tiles, different starting point. A 9 cut usually means the Instagram version: crop square, cut three by three, post in reverse. A 3x3 split is the general operation on any source, with no square crop applied and no posting order assumed.