Tier list image sizes are flexible: uploads are auto-scaled to fit the tile, so no exact dimensions are required — around 500×500 pixels is plenty. This maker has seven tile shapes, from 62×62 squares to 112×48 pills, plus an Original mode that keeps native proportions, and the PNG export renders at 2× scale so tiles stay sharp.
When you build an image tier list, the tile shape and size change how it looks. Here is how to pick the right one — square, round, landscape, portrait or original.
Above the tray you can set the tile shape for the whole board. Options include Square (the default, works for almost anything), Round (great for faces and logos), Landscape (posters, album art), Portrait (movie posters, characters), Pill and Capsule for a stylized look, and Original to keep each image’s native aspect ratio.
Each shape has a fixed tile size on the board grid: square is 62×62, landscape 96×60, portrait 48×72, round 64×64, pill 112×48, and capsule 48×104 pixels. Original is the exception — tiles stay 64 pixels tall and take whatever width the image’s proportions demand. These numbers are the frame, not a requirement; you never resize an upload to match them.
Worth knowing if you came from TierMaker: its image dimensions work differently. As of the support docs we checked, TierMaker crops uploads to fixed sizes — square and circle at 80×80, landscape at 130×80, portrait at 80×120, plus a no-crop mode with an 80px row height. Here, the square crop is display-only: the tile shape frames the stored image, and switching shapes re-frames every thumbnail instantly without touching your files.
You do not need exact dimensions — images are automatically scaled and cropped to fit the tile. For best quality, upload images at least 200×200px so they stay sharp. Square-ish source images look best in square and round tiles.
Blurry, pixelated tiles have one cause: too few pixels in the source. The export renders at 2× scale, so a 62-pixel square tile draws from 124 pixels of data — a tiny 40px avatar has nothing to give it, while a 500×500 source covers every shape with resolution to spare. Going high-resolution past that only adds file size; a 4000-pixel photo spends its extra megabytes on nothing you’ll see. If your camera roll images run several MB each, resize or compress before uploading and the board stays quick. Last detail: non-square images in square tiles get a center crop on screen, so keep the subject in the middle — or zoom out before saving the source.
Ranking posters or wide artwork? Choose the Original shape so nothing gets cropped — each tile keeps its true proportions. Landscape and portrait shapes give a consistent crop instead.
Movie posters are the classic case. The standard movie poster aspect ratio is 2:3 — the 27×40-inch one-sheet — which is why poster art looks wrong forced into a 1:1 square. Ranking films? Portrait tiles are 48×72, an exact 2:3 match, so posters land in their natural frame; Original keeps them fully uncropped. The same logic sorts everything else: book covers are also taller than wide, 4:3 suits screenshots from older games, and 16:9 widescreen stills want landscape tiles. Mixed sources want Original.
The shape control sits next to the tray because it affects every tile at once — change it any time and the board (and your PNG export) updates instantly.
The honest flip side: there’s no per-tile override. You can’t mix shapes on one board or give a single individual image its own crop. When half your items are posters and half are logos, Original is the setting that treats both fairly.
There’s no whitelist to fight. The uploader accepts whatever your browser can decode as an image, so every common image file format works: JPG/JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF — and AVIF in current browsers. An unsupported file type is simply skipped by the picker rather than throwing an error.
Two caveats. GIFs upload fine, but PNG is a still format, so an animated GIF gets frozen at its first frame in the export. And HEIC — the iPhone camera default — is the awkward one: the picker accepts it, but not every browser can decode it, so if a tile comes through blank, run the photo through a converter to JPG first. Transparent PNG cutouts behave nicely and sit cleanly on the tile background.
Building a whole board from your own pictures? The own-images guide covers sourcing and prep. Prefer no images at all — the text tier list maker ranks plain names.
There isn’t one to memorize. No cap on how many images you add in total, no per-batch quota — select as many at once as you like and the whole batch lands in the tray together. (TierMaker’s support docs, for comparison, listed 500 images per upload, 50 MB per batch, and 2,500 per template when we checked.) The real upload limit is your device: every file is read and stored in your browser, so a hundred full-resolution phone photos will make any board feel heavy. Resize first and even big boards stay fast.
The image export draws the whole board at 2× scale — tiles, labels, and title all at double their on-screen pixels — so the output holds up on retina screens without any high-quality export toggle to hunt for. Width isn’t fixed: the PNG comes out as wide as your board needs, which is why a row of landscape tiles makes a wider download than a compact square grid. Download size follows content, too — image-heavy boards produce bigger files than text ones. And if you want the board as a document, the Print button generates a PDF with the same dark look intact.
Any size works — images are auto-scaled to fit. Upload at least 200x200px for sharpness, and square-ish images look best in square or round tiles.
Yes — choose the “Original” tile shape to preserve each image’s native aspect ratio with no cropping.
Square, landscape, portrait, round, pill, capsule and original for image boards.
Whatever your browser can decode: JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, and AVIF in modern browsers. HEIC from iPhones is hit-or-miss — the picker accepts it, but if the tile shows blank, convert the photo to JPG first. Files that aren’t images are simply ignored, so there’s no error to deal with.
Usually one of three things. The file is a format your browser can’t decode — HEIC is the usual suspect, so convert it to JPG. The display mode is set to text-only — switch the toggle back to image or both. Or a very large photo is still being read — multi-MB files take a moment. A slow network isn’t the cause: images are processed on your device, not uploaded.
There’s no built-in cap — no per-upload count, no megabyte quota, no total limit per board. Select a whole batch at once and it all lands in the tray. In practice the ceiling is your browser’s memory: hundreds of full-resolution photos will slow things down, so resize very large images before adding them.
No. Each file is read in your browser and stored on your device, and the PNG export is rendered in the browser too — your pictures never leave your machine while you build, rank, and export a board.
2:3 — the standard US one-sheet is 27x40 inches. For a tier list that means portrait tiles (48x72, an exact 2:3) frame posters naturally, and the Original shape keeps each poster’s true proportions with no crop at all.
Every tile has a remove control. Used on a ranked tile it returns the image to the tray; used in the tray it wipes the item for good. Misplaced something? Undo reverses the last change, and the clear-board option wipes everything at once when you want a fresh start.
Farasat is an engineer who designs websites and builds practical online tools in his spare time. He created Tier List Maker after using other ranking sites that asked for an account, stamped watermarks on downloads, or simply did not work well on a phone. He is not a professional gamer or a self-described tier-list expert — he builds and maintains this site himself, fixes issues, and adds features based on what visitors actually ask for.