Drop a picture into the box above and a crop area appears over it. Drag its corners and edges until the bright part holds what you want to keep, then download: the rest is cut away and the part you keep stays at its full resolution. There's no signup or watermark.
Three ways to set the crop
- Drag. Corners change both sides at once, edges change one, and dragging inside the area moves it. The thin lines divide it into thirds, a handy guide for placing a horizon or a face.
- Lock a shape. Pick a shape under Shape and the area keeps those proportions while you drag: a square for profile pictures and product listings, 4:5 or 3:4 for portrait posts, 16:9 for slides and video thumbnails, 9:16 for vertical video covers.
- Type a size. Width and Height take exact pixels, such as 1,200 by 630. The area takes that size around the same middle, and you can still drag it to choose which part of the picture it covers.
With the crop area selected, the arrow keys move it one pixel at a time, or ten with Shift, for precise placement.
Rotate first, then crop
Rotate turns the picture a quarter turn clockwise, which fixes a photo that came out sideways. The crop area starts again on the turned picture, so rotate before you adjust it. Reset returns to the whole picture and a free shape.
What cropping does to the file
Cropping removes pixels; it doesn't resample the ones you keep. A 4,000-pixel photo cropped to its middle half is 2,000 pixels wide, just as sharp as before. A PNG is saved as a PNG, with no lossy compression, and a JPG is saved as a JPG at high quality. The cropped file carries none of the original's camera details or location.
If the result has to be a particular size in pixels or kilobytes, crop to the shape first, then set the size with the image resizer or shrink the file with the image compressor.
Other ways to crop
- Many pictures, one shape. Batch crop cuts a whole set to a square or another shape in one go.
- A circle. The circle crop tool cuts a round picture with a transparent background, for avatars and logos.
- Around the subject. To keep only a person or product and drop everything behind it, remove the background instead.
Frequently asked questions
Does cropping reduce the quality?
The part you keep stays at its original resolution: no pixel is stretched or shrunk. A PNG is saved as a PNG, which loses nothing; a JPG is saved as a JPG once more, at high quality.
How do I crop an image to an exact size?
Type the width and height in pixels; the crop area takes that size around the same middle and you can drag it into place. To make the picture itself larger or smaller in pixels, crop first and then use the image resizer.
How do I crop to a square or to 16:9?
Choose the shape under Shape. The crop area takes that shape as large as it fits and keeps it while you drag a corner, so the result is exactly square, 16:9 or whichever you picked.
Can I crop several images at once?
This page crops one picture at a time, by hand. To cut many pictures to the same shape in one go, use Batch crop, which crops each one from the middle, top or bottom.
Can I crop on my phone?
Yes. Drag the corners and edges with a finger, or type the Width and Height to set an exact size without dragging.
Are my images uploaded?
No. The picture is cropped inside your browser, so it never leaves your device, and there's no signup or watermark.