Crop Image

Add your pictures to the box above, drag the crop box over the part you want to keep and press the red button. The cut is made in a moment, at full resolution, ready to download one by one or together as a ZIP.

With this free tool you can crop image files by hand, to an exact shape such as a square or a circle, or to a ready-made size for Instagram, YouTube, WhatsApp or a passport photo. Everything happens in your browser, so your pictures are not uploaded.

The crop box sits on top of your picture, and everything outside it is dimmed, so you see at a glance what will be kept. Drag the middle of the box to move it, or pull any of its eight handles, on the corners and on the sides, to make it bigger or smaller. A light grid splits the box into thirds, which helps you place a face, a horizon or a product where the eye expects it.

For exact work, type the numbers. The X and Y fields set the left and top edge of the box in pixels, and W and H set its width and height. Centre puts the box back in the middle of the picture. You can also click the box and use the arrow keys to nudge it a little at a time; hold Shift for bigger steps.

Free lets you draw any rectangle. Original keeps the same shape as your picture, which is handy when you only want to trim the edges. The fixed shapes are 1:1, 4:5, 3:4, 2:3, 16:9, 9:16, 4:3 and 3:2, and Custom lets you type any ratio, such as 5:7 for a print or 3:1 for a banner.

Once a shape is chosen, the box keeps it while you drag the handles, so a square stays square and a widescreen frame stays widescreen. The size of the crop in pixels and the size of the result are shown above the picture as you work.

A good crop is about what you leave out as much as what you keep. Start by deciding what the picture is about, a face, a product, a view or a line of text, and cut away anything that pulls the eye somewhere else, such as a bright sign at the edge, a stranger's elbow or an empty strip of sky.

For people, leave a little room above the head and in the direction they are looking, and avoid cutting exactly at a joint such as the neck, the elbow or the knee, which tends to look awkward. For products, keep the whole item in view with an even margin around it. For landscapes, place the horizon on the top or bottom line of the grid rather than through the middle.

When the picture will be shown in a fixed shape, choose that shape first and then frame the subject inside it. It is much easier than cropping freely and finding out later that a post or a thumbnail cuts off the most important part.

To crop image to circle, tick Round (circle) crop and choose the 1:1 shape, then move the box over the face or logo. Everything outside the circle is cut away. With any other shape the round crop becomes an oval that fills the box.

Choose PNG under Format if you want the corners to be see-through, which is what most profile pictures, stickers and logos need. JPG cannot be see-through, so a round JPG gets a solid colour in the corners; pick that colour under More options, white by default. For rounded corners instead of a full circle, try Round Corners, and Circle Crop is a simple one-click alternative.

Square pictures look tidy everywhere: profile pictures, product grids, album covers and app icons. To crop image to square, choose the 1:1 shape and the biggest square that fits is placed in the middle of your picture. Drag it to keep the part you want, or resize it with the corner handles.

Online shops look neater when every product photo has the same square shape. Add all the photos, choose 1:1, adjust the ones where the product is not centred and leave the rest; pictures you do not touch are cut to a square from the centre. Choose Exact size under Result size, such as 1000 × 1000, to make every square the same number of pixels.

Instagram shows square posts at 1080 × 1080 pixels. To crop image to 1080x1080, pick Instagram square under Presets. The shape is set to 1:1 and the result is saved at exactly 1080 × 1080, so you only need to place the box over the part you want to show.

The same list has Instagram portrait (1080 × 1350, 4:5), which takes up more of the screen in the feed, and Story or Reel (1080 × 1920, 9:16). If your picture is smaller than the preset, it is enlarged to the exact size, so start from the original photo for the sharpest result.

16:9 is the shape of YouTube videos, most laptop and TV screens, and modern slides. To crop image 16:9, choose the 16:9 shape, or pick YouTube thumbnail under Presets for a ready result of 1280 × 720 pixels. The box keeps the widescreen shape however you drag it.

This is a quick way to turn a phone photo into a thumbnail, a desktop wallpaper or a slide background without black bars. For a full HD wallpaper, choose 16:9 and set Exact size to 1920 × 1080. For upright videos and stories, 9:16 is the same shape turned on its side.

WhatsApp shows your profile photo in a circle, and it often cuts off the top of the head or the edge of the face. To crop image for WhatsApp DP, pick WhatsApp DP (round) under Presets. It sets a 1:1 shape, a round crop and a result of 640 × 640 pixels, so you can see exactly what your contacts will see.

Place the face in the middle of the circle with a little space above the head, then crop and save. Choose PNG for see-through corners, or keep JPG with a white or coloured background. The same round result works for Telegram, Signal, Discord and most other apps that show round profile pictures.

To crop passport size photo files, pick Passport 35 × 45 mm or US passport 2 × 2 in under Presets. The first is used by the United Kingdom, the European Union, India and many other countries and gives 413 × 531 pixels; the second is the United States size and gives 600 × 600 pixels. Both are saved at 300 DPI, so they print at the right size.

Place the box so the whole head and the top of the shoulders are inside, with the face in the middle. Passport sizes and rules differ by country, so always check the current official rules for your country. This tool crops and sizes the photo; it does not check biometric rules such as head size, expression or background. For a guided passport photo with those checks in mind, use Passport Photo, and Remove Background can give you a plain background first.

Many visa forms, exam portals and job applications ask for a photo of 3.5 x 4.5 cm. To crop image 3.5 x 4.5 cm, pick Visa 3.5 × 4.5 cm under Presets: the box takes the right shape and the result is 413 × 531 pixels at 300 DPI, which prints at exactly 3.5 by 4.5 centimetres.

For the smaller stamp size photo, choose Stamp size 2.5 × 3.5 cm, which gives 295 × 413 pixels at 300 DPI. If a form also limits the file size, choose JPG under Format and tick Under in the Quality card, then type the limit in KB. Read the form's own instructions as well, since some ask for a different size or background.

Result size decides how many pixels the cropped picture has. As cropped keeps every pixel inside the box, so nothing is lost or added. Exact size saves the result at the width and height you type, such as 1080 × 1080, enlarging it if the crop is smaller. Longest side makes the bigger side a set length, such as 1920, and never makes a picture larger.

The crop size and the result size are both shown above the picture, so you know what you will get before you press the button. To change size without cropping at all, use Resize Image, and the Social Media Resizer can fit a whole picture into a social media size.

Cropping on its own removes pixels at the edges; it does not soften the ones you keep. To crop image without losing quality, keep Result size on As cropped and Format on Same as original. PNG stays lossless, and for JPG and WebP the quality is set to 92% by default, which looks the same as the original to the eye. Move the slider to 100% if you want the highest quality.

The preview on screen is smaller, but the crop is always applied to the full-size picture, not to the preview. The only exception is a picture too big for the memory of your device, such as a huge panorama on an older phone, which is made smaller and noted in the result. Avoid enlarging a small crop a lot, because no tool can add detail that was never there.

Format is set to Same as original, so a JPG stays JPG, a PNG stays PNG and a WebP stays WebP. iPhone HEIC photos and AVIF pictures become JPG, and GIF and BMP pictures become PNG, because browsers cannot save those formats. Choose JPG, PNG or WebP to change the format while you crop, for example to turn a large PNG photo into a lighter JPG.

For JPG and WebP, the Quality slider runs from 30% to 100%. Tick Under and type a number of KB, such as 200, and each picture gets the highest quality that still fits under that limit, which is useful for forms that reject big files. To make finished pictures lighter still, use Compress Image.

Screenshots usually show more than you need: the status bar, the browser tabs, the taskbar or a notification. To crop screenshot pictures, paste them straight in with Ctrl+V, draw the box around the useful part and crop. Keep Format on Same as original so the screenshot stays a sharp PNG with crisp text.

It is also a quick way to cut out private details, such as a name, a phone number or a list of other chats, before you share a screenshot. If you only want to cut away plain borders around a picture, Trim Image can do that automatically.

You can crop multiple images at once: add up to 500 pictures of up to 100 MB each, and they all appear as small thumbnails above the crop box. Click a thumbnail to give that picture its own box; a small blue mark shows which pictures you have adjusted. Pictures you do not adjust are cut to the chosen shape from the centre.

If all the pictures have the same layout, such as screenshots from the same phone, tick Use this box for every picture and one box is used for all of them. The pictures are cropped several at a time in the background, and Download all puts them into one ZIP. File names get -cropped added, or stay the same if you untick that option.

Under More options you can rotate pictures 90 degrees right, 180 degrees or 90 degrees left, and mirror them or turn them upside down. The crop box always works on the upright picture you see, so what you draw is what you get. For a turn or a mirror on its own, Rotate Image and Flip Image do just that.

DPI for print can be left unset or written in as 72, 150 or 300. It does not change the pixels; it tells printers how large to print the picture, and the ID photo presets set 300 for you. Photo details such as the camera, the date and the location are removed by default; you can keep them without the location, or keep them all.

The cropper opens JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF and BMP pictures, AVIF pictures, and HEIC and HEIF photos from iPhones, even in browsers that cannot show HEIC on their own. Photos are turned upright automatically, so a portrait photo is never cropped on its side.

TIFF, ICO and SVG files are not accepted here. Convert iPhone photos for other apps with HEIC to JPG, switch formats with PNG to JPG or JPG to PNG, and put cropped pictures into one document with Image to PDF.

Your pictures are not uploaded. Reading, cropping, saving and zipping all happen in your browser, on your own device, so nobody else sees them and there is nothing to delete from a server afterwards. There is no sign-up, no watermark and no daily limit.

Photo details, including the location where a photo was taken, are removed by default, so the cropped pictures you share reveal less about you. Some privacy browsers block reading pictures to stop fingerprinting; if you see a notice about it, allow this site in your privacy settings.

Each picture is opened by your browser and shown upright on a smaller preview, where you place the crop box. The box is stored as a part of the picture, not as screen pixels, so it can be applied exactly to the full-size original.

When you press the button, background workers open the original, turn and mirror it if you asked, cut out the box, apply the round crop, scale it to the result size and save it in the chosen format with your quality, size limit and DPI. The page stays smooth even with hundreds of pictures, and Change crop lets you adjust a box and crop again without adding the pictures a second time.

Always crop from the original photo, not from a copy that was already made smaller.

Use the thirds grid: put eyes on the top line and horizons on a line, not in the middle.

Leave a little space around a face so it does not feel squeezed.

Keep PNG for screenshots and logos, JPG for photos.

For prints and ID photos, keep 300 DPI and check the result size before you print.