Crop a WebP
Cut a WebP to the part you need and keep it a WebP.
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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.
Pictures saved from the web come as WebP, and they come framed for the page they were on, not for what you want to do with them. A banner needs to become a square thumbnail. A product shot has too much empty room around it. A screenshot holds one useful panel. Open the WebP, drag the rectangle over the part to keep, and download the cut as a WebP again.
The rectangle can be free or locked to a ratio: 1:1, 4:5, 3:4, 4:3, 16:9 or 9:16. It moves with the mouse, a finger or the arrow keys. The cut is taken from the full-size image, and transparent areas inside it stay transparent.
In a batch, each image has its own rectangle, and the results download together. Your WebP files are uploaded over an encrypted connection, cropped on our own servers and deleted within one hour.
The cropped picture is encoded again: pick the mode to suit
A WebP cannot be trimmed in place. The kept area is decoded and written as a new file, and how it is written is your choice. This page starts in Quality mode at 90, a lossy setting high enough that the second encode adds nothing you can see. It suits photographs and most pictures from web pages.
If the WebP is a graphic with flat colours and sharp edges, such as an icon, a logo, a diagram or a pixel-exact interface capture, switch the mode to Lossless before downloading. The pixels inside the rectangle are then stored exactly, with no new softness around lines and text. The file is larger than a lossy one, and for graphics it is usually still small.
Animated WebP gives a single frame
Cropping changes the shape of the frame, and that is one of the edits that work on one picture only. From an animated WebP, such as a sticker or a short loop, you get the first frame cropped, and a note in the editor says that the animation was dropped. Nothing is wrong with the file; the tool does not crop frame by frame.
If the animation has to survive, scale it instead of cropping it. A plain resize keeps every frame. To change the shape of a moving picture, go back to the program it was made in.
Circle crops in a small file
Circle crop makes everything outside an ellipse transparent, the standard shape for avatars and author pictures. WebP is a good format for the result. It stores the transparent corners with a smooth edge, as PNG does, and for a photographic portrait the file is a fraction of the PNG's size, often 20 KB where the PNG would be 150.
Lock the ratio to 1:1 first for a true circle. Remember that many sites round profile pictures themselves and expect a square upload; for those, crop a plain square and let the site cut the circle.
Frequently asked questions
Does cropping a WebP lose quality?
At the starting quality of 90 the kept area is re-encoded with no visible change. In Lossless mode it is stored pixel for pixel.
Is transparency kept?
Yes. Transparent pixels inside the rectangle remain transparent in the cropped WebP.
Can I crop an animated WebP and keep it moving?
No. A crop returns the first frame as a still image, with a warning. Only compressing and plain resizing keep an animation.
How do I crop to exact pixel dimensions?
Crop to the shape, then switch on Resize and enter the width and height. The output size is shown before you download.
Can I download the crop as JPG or PNG?
Yes. Change the format in the editor. JPG fills transparent areas with a colour you choose.
Will the cropped file be smaller?
Yes, roughly in proportion to the area you keep. Half the width and half the height is about a quarter of the bytes.