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Crop image

Trim to a ratio, a square or a circle. Pan and zoom to choose exactly what stays — all inside this page.

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Crop, resize, or both

They solve different problems and get confused constantly.

Cropping decides what is in the picture. It throws away the edges. The pixels that remain are untouched.

Resizing decides how many pixels the picture has. Everything stays in frame; it just gets bigger or smaller.

If a form asks for a 600×600 photo and yours is 4000×3000, you need both — crop to square first so nothing important is cut off arbitrarily, then resize the square to 600×600. Doing it the other way round means the resize has to guess which part matters.

The shapes on offer

Shape Ratio Good for
Original source trimming edges without changing proportions
Square 1:1 avatars, Instagram posts, ID photos
Portrait 4:5 Instagram portrait, printed photos
Photo 3:2 the classic 35 mm frame, 6×4 prints
Wide 16:9 thumbnails, slides, video stills
Story 9:16 Instagram and TikTok stories
Circle 1:1 masked profile pictures on a coloured background

Working with the keyboard

Everything here is reachable without a mouse. Tab moves between the shape chips, the zoom slider and the nudge buttons; the slider responds to arrow keys; the four nudge buttons move the image in small, predictable steps.

This matters more than it sounds. Fine-tuning a crop by dragging is fiddly on a trackpad and genuinely difficult with a motor impairment, and most online croppers offer no alternative at all.

For faces specifically

If you are cropping a photo for an identity document, use the passport photo maker instead. It has the same pan-and-zoom frame, but with the head-height and eye-line guides for the specific country you need, the correct output dimensions, and a background check. Cropping a passport photo by eye is how people end up with a head that is 5% too small and an application that comes back.

How it works

  1. 01Add an imageDrop it, click to browse, or paste from the clipboard. HEIC works too.
  2. 02Pick a shapeOriginal ratio, square, portrait, photo, wide or story. Tick circle crop for a round avatar with a transparent corner.
  3. 03Frame itDrag the picture to move it inside the frame, and use the zoom slider to scale. Arrow buttons nudge by a few pixels for fine work.
  4. 04Crop and downloadThe crop is applied at full source resolution, not at preview size.

Questions people actually ask

Does cropping reduce quality?
Cropping itself is lossless — it simply discards pixels outside the frame. If the output is JPEG, the remaining pixels are re-encoded once at quality 92, which is visually lossless. PNG sources stay PNG and stay exact.
Is the crop applied at preview resolution?
No. The preview is scaled to fit your screen, but the crop rectangle is mapped back to the original image coordinates and applied to the full-resolution file. A 48 MP photo cropped to a square gives you a full-resolution square.
How does the circle crop work?
The image is cropped to a square, then a circular alpha mask is applied and the result is saved as PNG. The corners are genuinely transparent, so it sits cleanly on any background. JPEG cannot do this — it has no alpha channel — which is why circle crops always come out as PNG.
Can I crop several images at once?
Not with the same frame, no — and deliberately. A crop is a compositional decision about one specific picture; applying one rectangle blindly across a batch usually cuts someone’s head off. For batch work with a fixed target size, use the resizer with “crop to fill”.
Why is there a rule-of-thirds grid?
Because it helps. Placing the subject on one of the intersections, rather than dead centre, tends to produce a more comfortable composition. Ignore it freely — it is a guide, not a rule.
Is anything uploaded?
No. Decoding, cropping and encoding all happen in this browser tab.

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