Image Crop
Drag an image here or click to choose
Drag on the image to set the area
Or paste an image with Ctrl+V
Max 50 MB · 100 MP
- Upload your image.
- Choose the ratio: free, square, 4:3, 16:9 or 9:16.
- Drag and adjust the crop area over the image.
- Set the output format and quality, then download the result.
Cropping removes parts of the image and leaves what remains untouched. Resizing keeps everything and changes the dimensions, squeezing or stretching the pixels.
The distinction matters when an image must fit a space of a different ratio. Resizing by forcing both dimensions distorts; cropping preserves the proportions of what stays visible.
In practice, the correct flow for fitting a photo into a space is to crop to the right ratio first, then resize to the final dimensions.
- 1:1 square — profile pictures, product thumbnails, grid posts.
- 4:3 — the classic photography ratio and older presentation screens.
- 16:9 — video, horizontal covers, banners and share images.
- 9:16 — vertical for phone screens, stories and short video.
- Free — when composition leads and there is no external constraint.
Cropping itself does not degrade: the pixels that remain are the same as the original.
Loss can come from re-encoding. Saving as lossy JPEG or WebP puts the file through fresh compression, accumulating degradation on top of whatever already existed.
Cropping a small area from a large photo and then enlarging it is where quality really drops — not from the crop, but from the enlargement, which interpolates pixels without creating detail.
All processing runs in your browser; the image is never uploaded.
Frequently asked questions
The crop itself does not. Loss comes from re-encoding when saving to a lossy format, and from later enlargement if you crop a small area and want to display it large.
Cropping removes part of the image and preserves the rest unchanged. Resizing keeps everything and changes the dimensions. To fit a space of a different ratio, crop before resizing.
1:1. It is what practically every platform expects, and cropping it yourself stops the platform’s automatic crop from choosing the framing badly.
Yes, as long as the output format is PNG or WebP. Saving as JPEG replaces transparency with a solid colour.
No. Cropping happens in your browser and the file never leaves your computer.