Crop images
Drag a rectangle over the image to select the part you want to keep. Snap it to a common ratio, or leave it freeform.
Selection
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Drop an image here
or · one image at a time
Source image
Drop an image above. It appears here at its display size — drag out a rectangle to select the area you want to keep.
Cropped result
Composing a crop
Cropping is the fastest way to fix a photo that's technically fine but badly framed — too much empty foreground, a distracting edge, the subject sitting dead centre when the shot would read better off to one side. Because it only removes pixels rather than resampling the ones that remain, it's also completely lossless in terms of detail: what's left is exactly as sharp as the original.
The trade-off is resolution. A tight crop from a 12-megapixel photo might leave you with 3 megapixels, which is still plenty for a phone screen but can look soft printed large. If you know you'll want a tight crop, it helps to shoot a little wider than you think you need.
Using the ratio presets
Freeform lets you drag any rectangle. The fixed ratios exist because most destinations expect a specific shape: 1:1 for a square profile photo or Instagram grid post, 4:5 for a tall Instagram feed post, 3:2 for a typical print or camera sensor shape, and 16:9 or its portrait counterpart 9:16 for video thumbnails and stories. Pick the ratio first if you already know where the image is going — the selection will keep that shape as you resize it.
Precision with the handles
Once a selection exists, drag inside it to reposition it without changing its size, or grab a corner handle to resize from that corner. The pixel readout above the selection updates live and is measured in the image's true resolution, not the shrunk-down size it's displayed at on your screen — so what you see in the readout is exactly what ends up in the cropped file.
How do I draw a crop selection?
Click or tap and drag anywhere on the image to draw a rectangle. Drag inside an existing selection to move it, or drag its corner handles to resize it.
Can I crop to an exact ratio like 1:1 or 16:9?
Yes. Choose a ratio before or after drawing a selection and it snaps to that shape immediately, and stays locked to it while you resize.
Why can I only crop one image at a time?
Cropping is a judgement call about composition that's specific to each photo, unlike a batch operation like resizing or converting, so this tool works on one image at a time rather than queuing several.
What format is the cropped file saved as?
The same format as the image you loaded. If your browser can't re-encode that format, the tool falls back to PNG.
Does cropping affect image quality?
No pixels inside the selection are altered — cropping only discards the pixels outside it. Lossy formats like JPEG do get a fresh encoding pass on save, which is effectively lossless at quality 0.92.