Most photos have something at the edges you could do without: a stranger's elbow, a bin, too much sky. Cropping cuts it away, so the part that matters fills the frame. You can crop a picture here without installing anything and without sending it anywhere.
Drag a box over the part to keep, lock it to a shape such as 1:1 or 16:9, or type the exact pixels. This image cropper runs in your browser, it is free, and nothing is uploaded. Use it as a photo cropper for camera shots and iPhone HEIC photos, or on screenshots and logos. Below, each control is explained, with the shapes and what they suit, and how to crop several pictures in one go.
How to crop an image online, step by step
- Press Select images, or drop one or more pictures anywhere on the page. JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF, BMP, TIFF, ICO and iPhone HEIC photos all open.
- A box appears over the picture, covering most of it. Drag inside the box to move it, and drag a corner to make it bigger or smaller.
- To keep a set shape, pick one under Shape. Free lets the box take any shape at all.
- Check the From and To lines in the panel. To is the size your cropped picture will have, in pixels.
- Leave Save as on Original, or pick JPG, PNG or WebP, then press Crop.
- Save the new picture. Its name ends in _cropped, so it sits next to the original instead of replacing it.
Everything outside the box is dimmed on the stage, so you see the result before you make it. Thin lines split the box into thirds, which helps when you place a horizon or a face, and a label on the box shows its size as you drag.
Pick a shape: aspect ratios and what they suit
The Shape chips lock the box to an aspect ratio: its width compared with its height. Choosing one places a new box of that shape in the middle, as large as 80 % of the picture allows. You can move it and resize it after that, and it keeps its shape.
| Shape | Looks like | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Any rectangle | Cutting away an edge when the shape does not matter |
| 1:1 | A square | Profile pictures, product shots, square posts |
| 4:5 | A rectangle a little taller than wide | Portrait posts in social feeds |
| 3:2 | A classic photo print, lying down | Prints and many camera photos |
| 2:3 | The same print, standing up | Portrait prints and posters |
| 16:9 | A wide screen | Slides, video thumbnails, website banners |
| 9:16 | A tall phone screen | Stories and full-screen phone pictures |
| 4:3 | An older screen shape | Presentations, tablets and many phone photos |
A shape sets the proportions, not the size. A 1:1 crop of a large photo is still a large square. For an exact size too, such as 1080 by 1080 pixels, crop to the shape first, then use Resize image.
Every shape here is a rectangle. For a round profile picture, circle crop the image instead, with a transparent outside. To square a picture without cutting anything off, make the image square by adding space around it.
Pick Free again to unlock the shape. The box stays where it is, so you can carry on adjusting it by hand.
Crop a picture to size with exact pixels
Dragging is quick, but sometimes you need numbers. The panel shows the box as four fields: Left and Top say where its top-left corner sits, and Width and Height give its size, all in pixels of the picture you opened. Type a value and press Enter, and the box on the stage follows.
- The box is always at least 8 pixels wide and tall, and it never goes past the edge of the picture.
- With a shape locked, changing Width changes Height too, so the shape holds.
- Centre it moves the box to the middle without changing its size.
- Reset puts back the starting box and sets the Shape to Free.
So to crop a picture to size, say 1200 by 800, type 1200 under Width and 800 under Height with Free picked, then place the box with Left and Top or by dragging it. If the picture is smaller than the size you need, crop to the right shape here and make it bigger afterwards.
You can also nudge the box with the keyboard. Click the box, or one of its corners, and use the arrow keys to move it one pixel at a time, or ten pixels with Shift held. For fine work, zoom in with the buttons under the picture or the + and − keys, and press 0 to fit it again. Zoom changes only your view, never the result.
Crop multiple images the same way
Select up to 100 pictures at once, or add more with Add more pictures once the first one is open. They line up in a strip under the picture, and clicking one shows the box on that picture.
You set the box once. Each picture gets it at the same place, as a share of its own size: a box over the left half of the first picture covers the left half of every picture. With a shape locked, every crop keeps that shape around the same relative point. This is how you crop multiple images that came from one camera, such as a set of product photos.
- The button counts them for you: Crop 3 pictures, Crop 20 pictures and so on.
- A file that cannot be opened says Can’t open on its card and is skipped.
- If the box would come out under 8 pixels on a small picture, that one fails with the reason Too small to crop, and the rest carry on.
- With more than one result, Save all as ZIP saves them together in one file.
Crop a JPG, PNG or HEIC photo: format and quality
Save as decides the format. Original keeps the picture's own format where the tool can write it: a JPG stays a JPG and a PNG stays a PNG, while an iPhone HEIC photo becomes a JPG and a GIF, BMP or TIFF becomes a PNG. You can also pick JPG, PNG or WebP.
A transparent PNG, such as a logo, stays transparent saved as PNG or WebP. Saved as JPG, the clear parts turn white.
A crop never stretches or squashes what is left, but the picture is saved again. JPG and WebP are saved at high quality, so the change is very hard to see, and PNG keeps every pixel exactly. The saved picture is drawn fresh, so it carries no location, camera or date details. A sideways phone photo comes out the right way up, and colours are saved as standard sRGB, so a wide-colour photo can shift very slightly.
- The crop runs in your browser. The picture is never uploaded, and our server does no picture work.
- It is free, with no account and no watermark. Image tools are not counted in the free daily limit, which applies to document conversions only.
- It works in current Chrome, Edge and Firefox. Very large pictures may be too big for your browser to open.
To copy the words from a photographed page, crop it to the words first, so nothing around them is read too. A HEIC photo saved on Original becomes a JPG, which Image to Text reads.
Crop your image now
To crop an image online, drag the box, lock a shape if you need one, or type exact pixels, then press Crop. The result keeps its name with _cropped on the end, in the format you chose under Save as.
This image cropper is free, private and runs in your browser. Select a picture above to start. If the subject faces the wrong way, flip the photo to mirror it, or turn an upside-down image the right way up.
