Crop or resize a photo
The photo is right; the shape is wrong — a landscape shot where a square should sit, a sideways phone picture, a header that needs something wider. On a bernard-hosted site the AI does the cropping, so you never open an image editor.
How it works
- Get your access prompt. Log in to bernard, open your site, and copy the prompt from Edit with AI (it contains a key that works for 12 hours).
- Paste it into your AI — then paste the photo and say what shape you need and where it should go, or use the prompt below.
- Approve. The AI sends back a preview link. Check the crop kept what matters, press Approve, and it's live.
Ask in plain words — "make it square", "crop it wider", "it's sideways, turn it the right way up", "make a small version for the news list". If the photo is going in place of an existing one, Replace a photo anywhere on my site covers the swap; if you're not sure which photo to use at all, see Help me choose the best photo.
The prompt
“Crop the photo I've attached to a [square / wide banner shape] and use it as [where it should go, e.g. the image at the top of my About page] — keep the important part of the picture in frame.”
The [bracketed] parts are yours to fill in. First time? Log in to bernard → your site → Edit with AI → copy your access prompt, paste that into your AI first, then ask the above.
Questions people ask
- Can I crop a photo for my website without photo software?
- Yes — if your site is hosted with bernard, paste the photo into a chat with your AI and say what shape you need. It can crop to a square or a wide banner, resize, rotate a sideways photo, and make small thumbnail versions — and when it crops, it keeps the interesting part of the picture in frame.
- Will cropping ruin the original photo?
- No — every edit works on a copy, so the version you pasted is untouched. And because bernard keeps a full year of history, even a change you approved can be put back the way it was.
- What sizes should website images be?
- You don't need to know — photos are automatically shrunk to a sensible screen size and converted to a fast format when they're placed, so a straight-off-the-phone photo won't bloat your pages.