Crop Image
Cropping keeps part of a picture and removes the rest. You can crop an image for free in your browser without resampling the pixels you keep: a normal crop never adds blank edges, though a JPEG is re-encoded when saved. Use it to make a square post or match a listing ratio.
- Use Free, Fixed Ratio or Fixed Size, with an optional grid.
- Choose from nine anchor positions, or centre the crop.
- Straighten from -45 to +45 degrees inside the crop tool.
Crop an image to a square or a chosen ratio
Pick Fixed Ratio to hold a shape such as 1:1, 4:5 or 16:9. The crop window keeps that shape and grows as large as the picture allows, so a 4:5 frame on a 4:3 photo takes width away rather than inventing height. Fixed Size is for an exact pixel count, and Smart Fit snaps to the largest exact match of the ratio. Free leaves width and height independent.
Choose what stays in the frame
The crop window is drawn over the real image, and the nine anchor positions move it around. Centre suits a portrait or a product shot; a corner anchor is useful when the subject sits to one side. The line under the preview reports the output size and how much of the original remains, so you can see the cut before you commit. The grid is a composition guide only; it is never exported.
Straighten, flip and keep the full picture
The Transform controls rotate by quarter turns, flip the picture, and straighten from -45 to +45 degrees. Straightening trims the edge that would otherwise show, so it removes a sliver rather than adding background. Keep Full Image is the exception: it cuts nothing, and if the ratio cannot hold the whole picture the canvas grows and the gap takes your frame colour. Leave it off for an ordinary crop.
Crop first when the composition or ratio is wrong, then resize the result to the exact pixels a form asks for. A crop cannot add detail that was outside the frame.
Common questions
- Does cropping reduce image quality?
- A normal crop keeps the pixels inside the frame and writes a new file, so the kept area is not resampled or enlarged. The output is re-encoded, so a JPEG is written again and may lose a little fine detail; a PNG stays lossless. Keep the original if you may need the uncropped version.
- Can I crop to an exact size like 512 × 512?
- Yes. Use Fixed Size, type 512 in both fields, and choose the anchor that keeps the part you want. If the source is smaller than 512, the size is clamped to what the picture has.
All image processing happens in your browser. Your image is never uploaded, and there is no signup.