Crop an Image
Your image stays in your browser and is never uploaded. Location and camera data are stripped when editing. Maximum 10 MB and 25 megapixels.
To scale: same size as on the left · Fit: enlarged to the column · 1:1: one screen dot per image pixel
PNG is lossless — a quality setting has no effect on it.
What this tool does
Take a section out of an image by dragging the frame that sits over your photo. Pull the handles to make it smaller, drag the whole frame to decide exactly what falls inside it, or type the width and height you want in pixels. The frame starts on the full image, so nothing is cut away until you do it yourself. Pick a fixed ratio — square, 16:9, or one of the social sizes — and the frame keeps that ratio while you move it across the photo. On the right you see what you are keeping, continuously and to scale. The same tool can then also resize, rotate and convert the result to another file format; those parts stay off until you switch them on. Everything happens locally in your browser: nothing is uploaded, logged or kept. Free and unlimited to use, including commercially.
What people use this for
- Square crop of 1080 × 1080 px
- 1200 × 630 px for a sharing image
- Cropping a portrait photo into a landscape header
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How do I decide which part is kept?
The light frame on the image is the crop; everything outside it is dimmed and will be left out. Drag the frame itself to move it and pull any of the eight handles to make it larger or smaller. If you would rather work to the pixel, fill in the width and height; the frame then grows from its own centre so it does not wander off from where you just put it. With a fixed ratio the other side follows automatically.
What is the difference between cropping and resizing?
Cropping takes a part away; resizing keeps the whole image but makes it smaller. A photo of 2000 by 1500 cropped to a 1500 by 1500 square loses its sides but keeps its sharpness. The same photo resized to 500 by 375 keeps everything in view but holds less detail. You can combine them, and then it happens in that order: crop first, scale second — so the size you enter refers to what you are keeping.
Is my original file safe?
The original on your disk is untouched: you download a new copy and the source file stays unchanged. And because processing happens in your browser, the photo never reaches our server. So you can use this for material you would not upload to an unfamiliar service — close the page and nothing is left behind.
Is my photo’s metadata preserved?
No. Because the image is redrawn on a canvas, EXIF data is dropped: camera model, shutter speed, date and — importantly — any GPS coordinates. For publishing on the web that is often exactly what you want, since an unedited photo quietly carries the location where it was taken. If you need that data for your archive, keep the original separately.