Crop Image

Drop in a photo, drag the corners of the crop box to the part you want, or choose a shape and the box keeps it: square 1:1, 4:5, 3:2, 4:3, 16:9, A4 or any ratio you type. The pixels of the crop are shown as you go and can be typed exactly. Save the crop as the same format as the original, or as JPG, PNG or WebP. The picture is cropped by your browser on your own device, so it is never uploaded, and nothing is stored.

How it works

Crop Image is a web page that does its work on your own device. The file you choose is opened by your browser, changed there and saved from there; it is never sent to a server, so there is no copy of it anywhere to delete, no queue and no waiting for an upload. Most online tools of this kind send your file to their servers and work on it there, and many keep it for a while. This one does not. There is no account, no watermark and no limit on how often you use it, and the result downloads the moment it is ready.

Straight to one shape

Crop Image to Square · Crop Photo to 4x6

Placing a crop that works

• Pick the shape first. If the picture is going somewhere with a fixed shape, a profile circle, a listing thumbnail, a slide or a print, choose that shape before you start moving the box. Placing a free crop and then forcing it to a shape usually loses something at the edges.
• Use the grid. The two lines each way divide the crop into thirds. Eyes, horizons and the main subject tend to sit well on those lines rather than dead centre.
• Leave room around heads. Apps that show a circle cut the corners of a square, so keep faces inside the middle of the box, not touching its edge.
• Watch the pixel count. Cropping keeps the pixels inside the box and throws away the rest. A small crop from a large photo can still be sharp on a screen and too small for a large print; the count under the picture tells you what is left.

Which format to save in

"Same as the original" keeps a JPG as a JPG and a PNG as a PNG, which is right nearly always. Choose PNG when the crop is a screenshot, a diagram or a logo, or when it has transparent areas, because PNG keeps every pixel exactly and keeps transparency. Choose JPG for a photograph that must be small, and WebP for a photograph going on a web page, where it is smaller still at the same quality. The quality slider affects only JPG and WebP; 92 is not visibly different from the original, and 80 is a fair trade for a much smaller file.

What this tool does not do

• It does not straighten or rotate. Use Rotate and Flip Image first for a photo that came out sideways, then crop it.
• It does not enlarge. The crop is saved at the pixels it has, so a tiny crop stays tiny; use Image Resizer to set a pixel width once the crop is right.
• It does not keep the hidden details a phone writes into a photo, such as the place it was taken. The saved crop is a fresh picture with none of them.

What it does

• Drag the box or its handles, or type the exact left, top, width and height in pixels
• Shapes that lock the ratio: square 1:1, 4:5, 3:2, 4:3, 16:9, A4 and your own
• Swap any shape between landscape and portrait with one press
• Save as the original format, or as JPG, PNG or WebP, with a quality slider
• Keeps every pixel inside the crop: nothing is resized or blurred
• Works on phone photos the right way up, and with a finger or a mouse
• Nothing is uploaded and no watermark is added

Questions

Is my photo uploaded?

No. The photo is opened and cropped by your browser on your own device. It is never sent to us or to anyone else, and nothing is stored.

Does cropping reduce the quality?

The pixels inside the crop are kept exactly as they were; nothing is resized. Saving as JPG or WebP re-encodes the picture, which at the default quality of 92 is not visible; choose PNG when the picture must be identical, for example a screenshot or a logo.

How do I crop a photo to a square?

Press 1:1. The box becomes the largest square that fits and stays square while you move or resize it. Square crops suit profile pictures and marketplace listing thumbnails.

Which shape is 4:5 for?

4:5 is the tallest portrait shape most social apps show in a feed without cutting the sides. 16:9 is a widescreen video frame or slide; 3:2 is the shape of a 4 × 6 inch print and most camera photos; 4:3 is most phone photos; A4 matches a sheet of paper.

Can I crop to exact pixels?

Yes. Type the Width and Height, and the Left and Top of the crop, in pixels of the original image. With a shape chosen, changing one side changes the other to keep the shape.

Can I crop to a size in inches or centimetres?

Crop to the shape first, for example 3:2 for a 4 × 6 inch print or 5:7 as a custom ratio, then the print size is a matter of resolution. Our DPI Checker shows whether the crop has enough pixels for the print size you want, and the Passport Photo Maker crops to exact millimetre sizes for photos on forms.

Why does the photo open the right way up when other tools turn it sideways?

Phone photos carry a note saying which way up they were taken, and the browser applies it before the picture is shown. The crop is saved the way you see it, without the note, so it stays the right way up everywhere.

Can I crop several photos at once?

One at a time. Each crop is placed by hand, so batches do not fit here. For resizing many photos to a size, use Image Resizer; for many photos under a KB limit, use Compress Image.

Can I crop a circle?

Not here. The Profile Picture Maker crops a photo into a circle with a transparent background.

Is it free?

Yes, completely free, with no sign-up, no watermark and no limit.

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