Image Cropper

When your photo loads, a crop box appears over the middle half of it, with a rule-of-thirds grid inside. You have three ways to adjust it:

• Move: drag from inside the box to slide it across the image.
• Resize: drag one of the four corner handles to change width and height together, or one of the four edge handles to move a single side.
• Redraw: click and drag anywhere on the image outside the box to draw a new selection from scratch.

The box always stays inside the image. When you are happy, press Apply Crop. The preview updates to show only the cropped area so you can check it before you press Download Cropped Image. If the result is not right, choose Crop Another Image and load the photo again.

The cropper is freeform: there are no fixed ratio presets such as 1:1 or 16:9. If you need an exact size, crop to roughly the right shape here, then set the exact pixels in the image resizer.

Composition tip: before you crop, decide what the photo is about. Leave a little space in the direction a person is looking or a car is moving, keep horizons level, and avoid cutting through joints such as wrists or knees at the frame edge. Small changes to the crop often make a bigger difference than any filter.

The editor shows a scaled-down preview so large photos fit on your screen, but the crop is calculated back to the original pixels. A crop of a 12 MP phone photo keeps every pixel inside the area you selected.

The cropped image is exported as a lossless PNG image, so no extra compression artifacts are added. That can make the file larger than a JPG original. If size matters, send the result through the image compressor or convert it with PNG to JPG. The downloaded file keeps your original name with _cropped added.

The cropper handles one image at a time, because every photo needs its own framing. It opens any image your browser can display, including JPG, PNG, WebP and GIF (animated GIFs are cropped as a still frame). iPhone HEIC photos may not open in every browser, so convert them with the HEIC to JPG converter first.

Everything happens on your device: the photo is read by your browser, drawn onto a canvas and cropped there. Nothing is uploaded, and your original file is never changed.

Cropping removes the edges of a picture. It is often combined with, or confused with, these other edits:

• Resizing scales the whole picture up or down without removing anything. Use the image resizer.
• Removing the background keeps the subject and makes everything around it transparent. Use the free Background Remover.
• Removing an object in the middle of the picture, such as a logo or caption, needs AI. Try the AI Watermark Remover.
• Extending the photo beyond its edges, for example to turn a portrait into a landscape, is what the AI Image Expander does.

A common workflow for social posts is crop, resize, then compress: crop to the shape you want, set the exact pixels in the image resizer, then shrink the file with the image compressor. All three run in your browser and are free.

For portraits, a tight crop around the head and shoulders makes a stronger profile picture than a full-body shot. If you want a polished, studio-style result rather than just a crop, the AI Professional Headshot tool generates one from your selfie.