Keepframe
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For photographers and the studios they deliver to

One crop. Every size.

Keepframe holds the crop you chose at every size a picture ships in, and shows you what each size cuts before anything leaves the studio.

Start free for 30 daysSee the tool
Seen from above at night, photographic prints lie on a dark cutting mat, and one print of the sea is lit by a desk lamp with a loupe resting on it.

4:51464 × 1830

Feed1080 × 1350

Proof table, after midnight. Hester Quillane for Istowe Editions.

The tool, live on this page

Every size starts from your crop.

Choose a size and the same frame recrops in place, holding the player in every one. Scroll through all four sizes, or pick one here.

Keepframe

Sample workspaceOxmere Lawn Tennisserve-court-3.tif

58%
MSTVOA
A clay tennis court seen from directly overhead: a player tosses the ball to serve and a long shadow runs to the right.

16:95120 × 2880

Cut 39%Angle 0.0°

Selects

The whole frame travels with the crop.

We keep every pixel behind a crop, so an editor can reopen a picture next season and widen it without asking for the raw. Hover a frame to see what was cut.

  1. A diver at the top of a dive, arms spread against a deep blue sky, the end of the board in the lower corner.

    4:53040 × 3800

    Top of the arcWren Achterlo for Gullhithe Swim Club
  2. A gardener seen from behind waters tiers of red pelargoniums in an old glasshouse.

    1:13480 × 3480

    Morning roundIdris Pellowen for Quillfen Nurseries
  3. A baker's hands scatter backlit flour over a round of dough on a steel bench.

    4:53072 × 3840

    Second proofNoa Castellune for Hearthmere Bakehouse
  4. A black dog leaps into a breaking wave, spray lit by a low sun.

    16:94680 × 2632

    Into the fourth waveJuno Marrowby for Tidewrack Dog School
  5. Tulips in five colours stand in steel buckets under one bare bulb in a florist's cold room.

    9:162520 × 4480

    Cold room, five coloursPim Oudevaart for Brindlecote Flowers
  6. Two hands pour pale glaze over a thrown stoneware bowl, the glaze running off the rim into a tray.

    1:13264 × 3264

    Glaze over the rimSable Okonjoro for Slipmere

Counted

The figures are samples, each counted as its caption says, and the makers and clients above are fictional.

Sizes from one kept frame
38
Median outputs made from one crop across 240 sample workspaces in a quarter.
Pixels thrown away
0
How the tool works: the full frame stays behind every crop, so a cut can be widened again.
Less time recropping
71%
Timed recrop work for 30 picture editors, first month against the month before.
Hours back each week
4.5
Per editor, self-reported in a sample survey of 112 studio users.

Placements

Three placements share one frame.

Draw the header, the feed post and the story on the same picture. We tie each crop to the subject, so when you move one, the others follow the car up the hill.

A high view of a snowy mountainside where a road climbs in switchbacks between dark pines, one small red car on the second bend.

9:161642 × 2917

4:51267 × 1583

16:94371 × 24589:162480 × 4409

  • 16:94371 × 2458Cinema header, the chosen crop
  • 4:51267 × 1583Feed post
  • 9:161642 × 2917Story
  • 9:162480 × 4409Story, the chosen crop

Nine bends in January. Arvo Linnemark for the Pellenby Hill Climb. Maker and client are fictional.

Illustrative portrait: a grey-haired picture editor looks down at prints spread across a long table.

4:53264 × 4080

Studios

“The crop gets agreed once, at the table.”

We used to recut a cover story four times on deadline. Now every size comes out of that one decision.

Maren Solvik-AudePicture editor, Larkquay Magazine

Studios agree the crop once and sign off every size.

Editors and clients review one frame together, and every placement follows from it.

Clients see the cut next to the kept before they sign off. The arguments happen on the proof now, a week before the campaign goes live.

Teodor VasskarStudio producer, Umberlane
Illustrative portrait of Teodor Vasskar: a studio producer beside a rail of clothes in a daylit studio, looking to one side.

4:53456 × 4320

Kept by

Picture desks, agencies, magazines and print houses keep their frames with us.

Both portraits are illustrative, and every name and mark in this band is fictional.

Plans

Every plan makes every size.

Unlimited kept frames come with every plan. You pay for seats, and for print specs if your clients need them.

The cold room’s tulips in a tall frame, with a feed portrait crop drawn on them.

4:53360 × 4200

Feed portrait 1080 × 1350

Solo

For one photographer delivering their own work.

$12

Per month, billed monthly

Start Solo
  • Unlimited kept frames
  • Every size preset, plus your own
  • Proof links that show the cut
  • Exports up to 12,000 px on the long side
The baker’s hands over the dough, with a catalogue square crop drawn on it.

1:13456 × 3456

Catalogue square 2000 × 2000

Studio

For teams of two to forty sharing selects.

$28

Per seat per month, billed monthly

Start Studio
  • Everything in Solo
  • Shared presets and output lists
  • Up to eight people in one frame
  • Client sign-off on each size
  • Sync with your delivery drive
The diver against the sky, with a poster crop drawn on it.

9:162880 × 5120

Poster proof with bleed 2700 × 4800

House

For agencies and print houses with their own specs.

$1,900

Per month for 50 seats, billed monthly

Talk to our team
  • Everything in Studio
  • Print specs with bleed and colour profiles
  • Single sign-on and an audit log
  • A named contact in your time zone

Prices in US dollars before tax. Sample prices for a fictional product.

Keep the frame you chose.

Open a Keepframe studio free for thirty days, with every size and every seat, then choose a plan.

From a high cliff, a single swimmer far below trails a thin white wake across a wide dark green sea.

1:11558 × 15581549 × 1549

Crossing, late afternoon. Linnea Harrowgate for Gullhithe Swim Club.