diff --git a/deploy/portainer-stack.yml b/deploy/portainer-stack.yml
index 26b5188..4785f93 100644
--- a/deploy/portainer-stack.yml
+++ b/deploy/portainer-stack.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 services:
   beacon-server:
-    image: beacon-server:0.1.12
+    image: beacon-server:0.1.13
     restart: always
     environment:
       ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT: Production
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ services:
       /bin/sh -c '(while sleep 86400; do nginx -s reload; done) & exec nginx -g "daemon off;"'
 
   beacon-backup:
-    image: beacon-backup:0.1.12
+    image: beacon-backup:0.1.13
     restart: always
     environment:
       BACKUP_INTERVAL_SECONDS: "86400"
diff --git a/src/Beacon.Plugin/Beacon.Plugin.csproj b/src/Beacon.Plugin/Beacon.Plugin.csproj
index 2023ee6..e15bcec 100644
--- a/src/Beacon.Plugin/Beacon.Plugin.csproj
+++ b/src/Beacon.Plugin/Beacon.Plugin.csproj
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     <!-- Drives the built DLL, the generated manifest, and the folder Dalamud loads it from. -->
     <AssemblyName>Beacon</AssemblyName>
     <RootNamespace>Beacon</RootNamespace>
-    <Version>0.1.12.0</Version>
+    <Version>0.1.13.0</Version>
     <!-- The Dalamud SDK does not turn these on, and every service file wants System.Threading.Tasks. -->
     <ImplicitUsings>enable</ImplicitUsings>
   </PropertyGroup>
diff --git a/src/Beacon.Plugin/UI/ProfileCard.cs b/src/Beacon.Plugin/UI/ProfileCard.cs
index 9a8103a..a3dbd63 100644
--- a/src/Beacon.Plugin/UI/ProfileCard.cs
+++ b/src/Beacon.Plugin/UI/ProfileCard.cs
@@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ public sealed class ProfileCard(ImageCache images)
     /// </summary>
     public IDalamudTextureWrap? PendingPortrait { get; set; }
 
+    /// <summary>The crop being applied to <see cref="PendingPortrait"/>, so the preview matches the editor.</summary>
+    public Vector2 PendingPortraitUv0 { get; set; } = Vector2.Zero;
+
+    public Vector2 PendingPortraitUv1 { get; set; } = Vector2.One;
+
     /// <summary>Draws the card face.</summary>
     public void Draw(ProfileDto profile, float scale) => DrawCardContents(profile, scale);
 
@@ -250,14 +255,21 @@ private void DrawPortrait(ProfileDto profile, float size, float scale)
 
         var origin = ImGui.GetCursorScreenPos();
         var draw = ImGui.GetWindowDrawList();
-        var box = new Vector2(origin.X + size, origin.Y + (size * 1.25f));
+        var height = size / ProfileLimits.PortraitAspect;
+        var box = new Vector2(origin.X + size, origin.Y + height);
 
         var portrait = PendingPortrait
                        ?? (profile.HasPortrait ? images.Get(profile.PortraitImageId!.Value, thumb: false) : null);
 
         if (portrait is not null)
         {
-            draw.AddImage(portrait.Handle, origin, box);
+            // A stored portrait is already cropped to shape; a pending one is the raw file and carries
+            // the crop the editor is previewing.
+            var (uv0, uv1) = ReferenceEquals(portrait, PendingPortrait)
+                ? (PendingPortraitUv0, PendingPortraitUv1)
+                : (Vector2.Zero, Vector2.One);
+
+            draw.AddImage(portrait.Handle, origin, box, uv0, uv1);
         }
         else if (profile.HasPortrait)
         {
@@ -266,7 +278,7 @@ private void DrawPortrait(ProfileDto profile, float size, float scale)
             const string Fetching = "Loading...";
             var fetchingSize = ImGui.CalcTextSize(Fetching);
             draw.AddText(
-                new Vector2(origin.X + ((size - fetchingSize.X) / 2f), origin.Y + ((size * 1.25f - fetchingSize.Y) / 2f)),
+                new Vector2(origin.X + ((size - fetchingSize.X) / 2f), origin.Y + ((height - fetchingSize.Y) / 2f)),
                 Theme.InkFaint.Packed(),
                 Fetching);
         }
@@ -276,7 +288,7 @@ private void DrawPortrait(ProfileDto profile, float size, float scale)
             const string Label = "No likeness";
             var textSize = ImGui.CalcTextSize(Label);
             draw.AddText(
-                new Vector2(origin.X + ((size - textSize.X) / 2f), origin.Y + ((size * 1.25f - textSize.Y) / 2f)),
+                new Vector2(origin.X + ((size - textSize.X) / 2f), origin.Y + ((height - textSize.Y) / 2f)),
                 Theme.InkFaint.Packed(),
                 Label);
         }
@@ -286,7 +298,7 @@ private void DrawPortrait(ProfileDto profile, float size, float scale)
         // Clicking the likeness opens it at a size you can actually look at.
         if (portrait is not null && profile.HasPortrait)
         {
-            ImGui.InvisibleButton($"##portrait{profile.Id}", new Vector2(size, size * 1.25f));
+            ImGui.InvisibleButton($"##portrait{profile.Id}", new Vector2(size, height));
 
             if (ImGui.IsItemHovered())
             {
@@ -299,7 +311,7 @@ private void DrawPortrait(ProfileDto profile, float size, float scale)
                 OpenImage?.Invoke(profile.PortraitImageId!.Value);
         }
         else
-            ImGui.Dummy(new Vector2(size, size * 1.25f));
+            ImGui.Dummy(new Vector2(size, height));
 
         if (profile.Gallery.Count > 1)
         {
diff --git a/src/Beacon.Plugin/Windows/ChronicleWindow.cs b/src/Beacon.Plugin/Windows/ChronicleWindow.cs
index 333c12c..2cb1dd8 100644
--- a/src/Beacon.Plugin/Windows/ChronicleWindow.cs
+++ b/src/Beacon.Plugin/Windows/ChronicleWindow.cs
@@ -368,7 +368,17 @@ private void DrawThumbnail(ImDrawListPtr draw, ProfileDto profile, Vector2 at, f
 
         if (profile.HasPortrait && images.Get(profile.PortraitImageId!.Value) is { } texture)
         {
-            draw.AddImage(texture.Handle, at, box);
+            // The row is square and a portrait is not, so take the middle of it rather than squashing
+            // a face to fit.
+            var visible = ProfileLimits.PortraitAspect;
+            var inset = (1f - visible) / 2f;
+
+            draw.AddImage(
+                texture.Handle,
+                at,
+                box,
+                new Vector2(0f, inset),
+                new Vector2(1f, 1f - inset));
         }
         else
         {
diff --git a/src/Beacon.Plugin/Windows/ProfileEditorWindow.cs b/src/Beacon.Plugin/Windows/ProfileEditorWindow.cs
index 8d3518d..11612aa 100644
--- a/src/Beacon.Plugin/Windows/ProfileEditorWindow.cs
+++ b/src/Beacon.Plugin/Windows/ProfileEditorWindow.cs
@@ -19,9 +19,10 @@ namespace Beacon.Windows;
 /// </summary>
 public sealed class ProfileEditorWindow : Window, IDisposable
 {
-    private const float PortraitAspect = 5f / 6f;
-    private const int PortraitOutputWidth = 600;
-    private const int PortraitOutputHeight = 720;
+    // One shape for the crop preview, the stored image and the card.
+    private const float PortraitAspect = ProfileLimits.PortraitAspect;
+    private const int PortraitOutputWidth = ProfileLimits.PortraitWidth;
+    private const int PortraitOutputHeight = ProfileLimits.PortraitHeight;
     private const int PortraitSourceMaxBytes = 25 * 1024 * 1024;
     private const long PortraitSourceMaxPixels = 50_000_000;
 
@@ -905,8 +906,16 @@ private void DrawPreview(float scale)
         Theme.PushPage();
         if (ImGui.BeginChild("##previewPage", new Vector2(0, height), true))
         {
-            // The picture being considered, not the one it is about to replace.
+            // The picture being considered, not the one it is about to replace -- carrying the crop
+            // the editor is showing, so the preview frames it exactly as the upload will.
             preview.PendingPortrait = pendingPortraitTexture;
+
+            if (pendingPortraitTexture is not null)
+            {
+                var (uv0, uv1) = CropUvs(pendingPortraitTexture);
+                preview.PendingPortraitUv0 = uv0;
+                preview.PendingPortraitUv1 = uv1;
+            }
             preview.Draw(BuildDraft(), scale);
         }
 
diff --git a/src/Beacon.Shared/Profiles/ProfileLimits.cs b/src/Beacon.Shared/Profiles/ProfileLimits.cs
index 8be5c33..fc856aa 100644
--- a/src/Beacon.Shared/Profiles/ProfileLimits.cs
+++ b/src/Beacon.Shared/Profiles/ProfileLimits.cs
@@ -75,6 +75,20 @@ public static class ProfileLimits
     /// <summary>All four mature themes may be set; the cap exists only to bound a malformed request.</summary>
     public const int MaxMatureThemes = 4;
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// The shape of a portrait, in one place.
+    ///
+    /// The crop preview, the stored image and the card all have to agree on this. When they did not,
+    /// a portrait cropped to 5:6 was drawn into a 4:5 frame and every face on every card was quietly
+    /// stretched by four per cent -- which is exactly the kind of wrongness nobody can name but
+    /// everybody can see.
+    /// </summary>
+    public const int PortraitWidth = 600;
+    public const int PortraitHeight = 720;
+
+    /// <summary>Width over height, so a frame is <c>width / PortraitAspect</c> tall.</summary>
+    public const float PortraitAspect = PortraitWidth / (float)PortraitHeight;
+
     /// <summary>Gallery size. Enough for a proper reference sheet, bounded enough to host.</summary>
     public const int MaxGalleryImages = 8;
     public const int CaptionMaxLength = 80;
diff --git a/tools/verify-release.ps1 b/tools/verify-release.ps1
index de561d9..42f32a2 100644
--- a/tools/verify-release.ps1
+++ b/tools/verify-release.ps1
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ try {
     foreach ($required in @(
         'CreateFromImageAsync',
         'CropToPngAsync',
-        'PortraitOutputWidth = 600',
-        'PortraitOutputHeight = 720',
+        'PortraitOutputWidth = ProfileLimits.PortraitWidth',
+        'PortraitOutputHeight = ProfileLimits.PortraitHeight',
         'PortraitSourceMaxBytes = 25 * 1024 * 1024',
         'draw.AddImage(texture.Handle, origin, box, uv0, uv1)'
     )) {
@@ -71,6 +71,25 @@ try {
         }
     }
 
+    # The crop preview, the stored image and the card have to frame a portrait identically. When they
+    # did not, every face on every card was drawn 4% taller than it was cropped, which is small enough
+    # to go unnamed and large enough to be seen. Guarded here because three files have to agree.
+    $profileLimits = Get-Content -LiteralPath 'src/Beacon.Shared/Profiles/ProfileLimits.cs' -Raw
+    foreach ($required in @(
+        'PortraitWidth = 600',
+        'PortraitHeight = 720',
+        'PortraitAspect = PortraitWidth / (float)PortraitHeight'
+    )) {
+        if ($profileLimits.IndexOf($required, [StringComparison]::Ordinal) -lt 0) {
+            throw "The shared portrait shape is incomplete: $required"
+        }
+    }
+
+    $profileCard = Get-Content -LiteralPath 'src/Beacon.Plugin/UI/ProfileCard.cs' -Raw
+    if ($profileCard.IndexOf('size / ProfileLimits.PortraitAspect', [StringComparison]::Ordinal) -lt 0) {
+        throw 'The card must frame a portrait at the shape it is cropped to, not a hardcoded ratio.'
+    }
+
     $screenshotService = Get-Content -LiteralPath 'src/Beacon.Plugin/Services/ScreenshotService.cs' -Raw
     foreach ($required in @('CreateFromExistingTextureAsync', 'Uv0 = uv0', 'Uv1 = uv1', 'NewWidth = width', 'NewHeight = height')) {
         if ($screenshotService.IndexOf($required, [StringComparison]::Ordinal) -lt 0) {