Crop an image
Drag the rectangle, lock a ratio, or cut a circle.
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How it works
Add your images
Drag and drop, paste, or pick files. They upload over an encrypted connection.
Pick a quality or a target size
Use the quality slider, or tell it exactly how many KB or MB you need.
Download
Save each file, or grab them all at once as a ZIP.
Open a picture and drag the corners of the rectangle to keep the part you want. Choose Free to draw any shape, or lock the rectangle to a fixed ratio such as 1:1 for a square, 4:5 and 9:16 for portrait posts, or 16:9 for a widescreen frame. The rectangle can be moved with the mouse, a finger or the arrow keys.
Circle crop cuts an ellipse out of the selected area and makes everything outside it transparent, which is the usual shape for profile pictures and avatars. Because JPEG cannot store transparency, a circle crop of a JPEG is saved as PNG unless you pick another format.
Each image in a batch has its own rectangle. Pick a ratio once and every picture starts with the largest centred area of that shape; select any thumbnail to adjust its crop on its own. Cropping is done on the full-resolution original, not on the preview, and it happens before any rotation or resizing you add in the same editor. Files travel over an encrypted connection, are cropped on our own servers and are deleted within one hour.
Which ratio goes where
Each of the fixed ratios matches a place pictures are shown. The square, 1:1, is the shape of profile pictures and of most product grids. 4:5 is the tallest portrait a photo feed displays in full, and it takes up more of a phone screen than a square does. 9:16 fills the whole screen held upright, the format of stories and short videos. 16:9 is the widescreen of video thumbnails, presentations and most monitors. 4:3 and 3:4 are the classic proportions of camera sensors and tablets, and a safe choice for print.
Cropping to the right ratio yourself matters because platforms crop for you otherwise, from the centre, and the centre is not always where the subject is.
Smart position for batches
Cropping fifty photos to a square by hand means dragging fifty rectangles. Smart position does the placing for you. It looks for the subject of each picture and puts the crop around it, so a person standing on the left of a wide photo is not cut in half by a centred square. It is at its best with one clear subject, such as a portrait or a single product.
Treat it as a first pass. Scroll through the thumbnails afterwards, and where the choice is not the one you would have made, select that image and move its rectangle. The other pictures keep their own.
How much you can cut before it shows
Cropping throws pixels away, and what is left has to cover the same screen or paper. Half the width and half the height of a twelve-megapixel photo leaves three megapixels, 2000 by 1500: plenty for any screen and enough for a sharp print at 13 by 18 centimetres. Take a quarter of the width and a quarter of the height and you are at 1000 by 750, fine in a message and soft on a large monitor. The output size is shown as you drag, so you can see when a crop is getting too small.
Frequently asked questions
Does cropping lower the quality?
The kept area stays at its original resolution. The file is saved again, at high quality by default.
Can I crop several images at once?
Yes. Choose a ratio and every image gets a centred crop of that shape; adjust any of them individually.
How do I crop to an exact pixel size?
Crop to the shape you need, then switch on Resize in the same panel and type the width and height.
Why is my circle crop a PNG?
A circle needs transparent corners and JPEG has no transparency. PNG, WebP and AVIF all keep them.
Is the part I cut off gone for good?
From the file you download, yes. The original on your computer or phone is not touched, so you can always crop it differently later.
Can I crop an animated GIF?
Cropping returns the first frame as a still picture. An animation stays animated only when it is compressed or scaled without other changes.
Related tools
- Resize an imageSet the size in pixels or percent and see the output dimensions before you download.
- Rotate an imageTurn sideways photos the right way up, one image or a whole batch.
- Remove the background from an imageCut out the subject and drop in a transparent, white, black, or custom-coloured background, free and with no sign-up.