No Cropping. No Industrial Formatting.
At Granit: your media is respected. It's one of our top priorities. We've been obsessed with it for months, and it's non-negotiable. Your media are displayed exactly in their original format — whether small, medium, or large.
A square is a square, a 3:2 is a 3:2, and so on.
No cropping. No automatic layout that distorts your work.
I want to see my creations exactly as I envisioned them, thanks to the composition features Granit provides and to Granit Intelligence.
Your portfolio stays faithful to your vision: every piece of media keeps its framing, its intention, its place.
Elsewhere, other stories...
Instagram and its mass formatting.
No need to say more — everything has already been said.
On Format.com and many others, it's the tyranny of industrial grids (masonry). These layout grids seem flexible, but they enforce their own logic. Your images are resized, stacked, forced to "fit" the layout. The system decides the visual hierarchy for you. Your diptych designed horizontally? Split apart. The grid's algorithm overrides your intention: a dictatorship.
Behance: Adobe's irony — forcing everything into square thumbnails. Your cinematic 16:9 project, your vertical series, your composition — everything becomes a square.
All of this is grandpa's internet: the vertical, 4/5, or square dictatorship.
At Granit:
- The platform does not impose the format.
- The format dictates the platform.
- You don't "consume" a photo or illustration in a stream. This is not fast food. Granit is not a snack.
- The media must astonish us first — make us think and inspire us.
With Granit, you decide, you compose your creations.