Image Cropper

How to crop an image

1. Drop an image on the drop zone, or click it to choose one. JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF and BMP work, as does any other format your browser can display.
2. A crop frame appears over the picture. Drag inside the frame to move it, drag its edges or corners to resize it, or draw a new frame anywhere on the image.
3. Under Aspect ratio, keep Free for any shape, or lock the proportions: Original, 1:1, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9, 3:4, 2:3, 9:16 or 4:5. The frame is re-centered with the new shape. Reset selection puts it back in the middle.
4. Check the Selection size under the image: it is given in pixels of the original photo, not of the preview on screen.
5. Choose the Output format (Same as original, JPG, PNG or WebP) and, for JPG and WebP, the Quality.
6. Click Crop image. A preview appears with the original and cropped dimensions and the file size; click Download to save it.

Full resolution, no resampling

The crop is taken from the original image at full resolution. If you select a 1000 × 1000 area of a 4000 × 3000 photo, you get exactly those 1,000,000 pixels, copied without scaling, whatever the size of the preview on your screen. The crop frame cannot leave the picture, so the result never contains empty borders.

Cropping and resizing are different operations: cropping removes the edges of the picture, resizing changes the number of pixels of the whole picture. To get an exact size such as 1080 × 1080 pixels, crop with the 1:1 ratio first, then use the image resizer.

Which aspect ratio should I use?

• 1:1: profile pictures, Instagram square posts, product thumbnails.
• 4:5: portrait posts on Instagram and Facebook, which take more space in the feed.
• 16:9: YouTube thumbnails, presentation slides, desktop wallpapers, video frames.
• 9:16: stories, Reels, TikTok and phone wallpapers.
• 3:2: the native shape of most DSLR and mirrorless cameras, and standard 4 × 6 inch (10 × 15 cm) prints.
• 4:3: most phone photos, tablets and older screens.
• Original: keeps the photo’s own proportions, useful for trimming a little from every side without changing the shape.

Photographers often crop to straighten the composition along the rule of thirds: the grid drawn inside the frame splits it into thirds, and placing the main subject on one of the lines or intersections usually gives a more balanced picture.

Privacy and metadata

Your image never leaves your device: it is opened, cropped and encoded in your browser, with no upload. The cropped file is a new image without the original EXIF metadata, so details such as the camera model and the GPS location are not carried over.