Weird cropping/zooming in of images when exporting

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September 4, 2026
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Me and my colleague have both recently experienced the same issue — when exporting frames as png/jpeg, some random images within the frame are cropped and zoomed in, not in a way they appear on the canvas. All images are rectangles with a photo fill set to crop yet only some of them do this when exported. If you copy the frame as png, everything is fine, and the issue persists only when exporting

djv

Community Support

Hi @stacie s, thanks for flagging this!

This definitely seems odd. One thing that stands out: Figma doesn't bake crops into the image, it stores a transform that gets applied at render time. Copy as PNG and Export use different rendering paths, so a mismatch like this usually means the export path is evaluating that transform differently, which lines up with what you're seeing. A few things that would help us narrow it down:

Image sampling: Select one of the affected rectangles and check the sampling setting on the fill (Automatic / Smooth / Pixelated). If it's on Smooth, try switching to Automatic and re-exporting. We've seen smoothing interact oddly with cropped fills on export.
Nesting: Are the misbehaving rectangles nested inside another frame with clipping or a mask, versus the ones that export fine?
Export path: Does it still happen if you export from the desktop app vs. browser (or the other way around)? And at 1x vs 2x?

It’s also worth nothing that your colleague is seeing the same thing. Are you both on the same OS/browser, or different setups? Let me know and we can continue troubleshooting this together.

stacie sAuthor

New Member

The issue has just fixed itself with a restart of the app 😭 I’ll try the steps and make an update if this happens again as already the two of us have encountered it. There is no clipping or a mask anywhere within the frame; me and my colleague are both on MacOS and use the app

Luisa Siqueira

New Member

Hey, I’m running into the same issue across several projects. To work around it, I’ve been closing the app and exporting the same image again. Did you find a solution that doesn’t involve doing this? 😭

Tom Reem

Figmate

Hey @Luisa Siqueira, thanks for adding your report, and sorry you're running into this too.

This could be related to how Figma stores a high-res and a low-res copy of every image, and only downloads the high-res version for images in your current viewport. On export, it then has to pull high-res versions of everything in the frame. There’s more on this in the Image loading and performance article, which lists two steps short of quitting the app: (1) Close and reopen the affected file, or (2) right-click the file's tab in the Figam Desktop App and select Reload Tab. Can you give those a try and let me know if it helps?

Three additional things that would help us narrow it down:

Were the affected images off-screen when you hit export? Worth scrolling the whole frame into view first, then exporting.
Does it still happen in a brand new file, with a fresh upload of one of the same images?
In the Export section, open Advanced export settings and check Image resampling — it'll be on Detailed by default. Does switching it to Basic change what comes out?
Advanced export settings.

I tried reproducing this on my end and couldn't, so these details will help me align on the same process you’re following.

If you'd rather not troubleshoot in public, you can share the file with our Customer Support team through the Support Hub → type “Report a bug” → Start a chat, and include your impacted file by sharing it with support-share@figma.com with view access.

Either way, please post back here and we'll keep following the thread. 🙏🏻

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