Crop Image

You drag a box across the picture and the corners follow your pointer. While you drag it tells you how many pixels you have selected, so you can stop at 1080 wide without doing the arithmetic yourself. Rotate or flip first if the photo came out sideways: the box turns with it. A JPEG comes back a JPEG and a PNG comes back a PNG, so a picture with a transparent background does not quietly gain a white one.

Putting several pictures side by side? Merge Images lays them out in a row, a column or a grid. To make the file smaller afterwards, use Compress Image.

  • No account
  • No watermark
  • No file limit
Drop your files hereor click to chooseNo size or count limit beyond what your own computer can hold.There is no upload bar here, because there is no upload. The file is opened by this page, on your machine.

Your files

Press Start and the editor opens below, with the picture and a box you can drag.

    Nothing chosen yet.

    What this tool does for you

    The parts worth knowing before you start.

    The box is the interface

    Four corners you can grab, a middle you can drag, and a live count of the pixels inside.

    Photos from a phone come out the right way up

    A phone often writes the picture sideways and adds a note saying which way to turn it. This page reads the note itself and turns the picture before you ever see it, so the box you drag is the box that gets cut.

    You get back the kind of file you gave it

    PNG stays PNG, JPEG stays JPEG, WebP stays WebP. Transparency survives the crop, so a logo with a see-through background still has one when it comes back.

    Several pictures in one sitting

    Load a batch and each one keeps its own box, its own rotation and its own ratio. One picture downloads on its own; two or more arrive as a single zip.

    How to use Crop Image

    Choose one or more images, then press Start. The editor opens under the panel.

    Drag a box over the picture. Pick a ratio if you need one, or leave it free. Rotate or flip if the photo is the wrong way round.

    Press Export. The pixel size of each crop is shown before you commit to it.

    When people use it

    A profile picture that has to be square

    Upload forms that want 1:1 usually crop for you, and usually from the middle, which is rarely where your face is.

    A photo that came out of the camera sideways

    Turning it a quarter turn and cutting the edges is two seconds of work, done in the tab you already have open.

    Cutting the clutter off a screenshot

    The browser chrome, the dock, the notification that appeared halfway through.

    Questions about Crop Image

    Does cropping cost quality?

    PNG and WebP-lossless keep every pixel you kept. A JPEG has to go back through the encoder to be saved, so the crop is re-compressed. We write it at quality 92. Worth knowing before you crop the same file five times in a row.

    Can I rotate by three degrees to straighten a horizon?

    No. Only quarter turns and mirror flips.

    Why is my photo already the right way up before I touch anything?

    Because the orientation tag in the file has already been applied. Many phones store the image sideways with a note attached. The page reads that note and turns the pixels, so the box you drag is the box that gets cut.

    How large an image can it take?

    There is no limit from us. What decides it is your own computer: a 6000 × 4000 photo is comfortable, and much beyond 100 megapixels a browser canvas starts refusing. If it cannot be done you get a message, not a blank result.

    Is the picture uploaded?

    No. There is no server here to upload it to. The page reads the file off your disk and everything happens inside the tab.

    Which aspect ratios can I crop to?

    Free, 1:1, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9, 9:16 and 3:4. Pick one from the ratio list and the box snaps to that shape around its current centre. If you turn the picture a quarter turn, the ratio turns with it, so 4:3 becomes 3:4. Whole picture resets the box to the full image.

    Can I type exact pixel dimensions for the crop?

    There is no box to type numbers into. You drag the box, and a line under the picture shows the selected size in pixels next to the size of the whole picture. Drag a corner until it reads the width you need. The size of each crop is shown before you export.

    What are the cropped files called?

    Each one keeps its original name with -crop added before the extension, so holiday.jpg comes back as holiday-crop.jpg. The extension follows the format that was actually written. When you export several pictures in one go they arrive together in one zip named cropped-images.zip.

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