What the Crop Image does
The image cropper cuts away the parts of a picture you don’t need. Load a JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF or BMP image, drag the frame to the area you want to keep and resize it with the corner handles. For precise work you can also type the position (X, Y) and size (width and height) in pixels — handy when a website or form demands an exact image size.
Fixed aspect ratios make social media and print images easy: 1:1 for profile pictures and square posts, 4:5 for portrait posts, 9:16 for stories and reels, 16:9 for YouTube thumbnails and presentations, and 4:3 or 3:2 for classic photo formats. Choosing a ratio places the largest possible frame in the middle of your image, and resizing keeps the proportions locked.
The cropped image is created in your browser and downloaded directly. Nothing is uploaded, so you can safely crop ID photos, documents or private pictures.
When to use it
Profile pictures
Cut a square headshot for LinkedIn, WhatsApp, a company website or an online application.
Social media posts
Prepare images in the exact ratio Instagram, Facebook, TikTok or YouTube expects, so nothing is cut off automatically.
Screenshots
Keep only the relevant part of a screenshot before sharing it in a chat, ticket or tutorial.
Documents and scans
Remove the table, fingers or background around a photographed document or receipt.
Tips for the best results
- Crop first, then resize: cropping keeps full resolution, and our image resizer can bring the result to the final pixel size.
- Leave a little space around faces and objects; tight crops can feel cramped on small screens.
- For printing, check that the cropped area still has enough pixels — about 300 pixels per inch of print size.
- Choose PNG as output for screenshots with text and sharp edges, JPG or WebP for photos.
- On a phone, drag inside the frame to move it and use the round handles on the corners to resize.
How the Crop Image works
Your browser decodes the image and shows a scaled-down preview. The frame you draw is converted back to the original pixel coordinates, so the crop is exact even when the preview is smaller than the real image.
When you click “Crop image”, only the selected rectangle is copied pixel by pixel to a new canvas of exactly that size. Nothing is scaled, so there is no loss of sharpness. The result is saved in the original format (GIF and BMP become PNG) or the format you choose; JPG and WebP use a high quality setting of 92%.
Images with orientation information from a phone camera are displayed the right way round before cropping, so what you see is what you get.