Cropping is the quickest edit that improves almost any photo. Trimming a distracting edge, centring the subject or cutting a screenshot down to the part that matters makes an image clearer before you have touched a single colour. It is also how you fit a picture to a shape a platform demands, such as a square profile photo or a widescreen thumbnail.
This cropper runs entirely in your browser. Open a PNG, JPG, WebP, GIF, BMP or AVIF image, drag the box or type exact pixel values, rotate in 90 degree steps if needed, and download the cropped picture as PNG, JPG or WebP. The image is never uploaded, which makes it safe for screenshots of private messages, documents or work dashboards.
Cropping, aspect ratios and pixels
Cropping keeps a rectangle of the original pixels and discards everything outside it. Unlike resizing, it does not scale anything: a face that was 600 pixels wide is still 600 pixels wide after the crop, just with less around it. The output dimensions are therefore simply the size of the box you draw, which the tool shows live in pixels next to the original size.
An aspect ratio is the relationship between width and height. A 1:1 crop is square, 4:3 matches most phone camera photos and older screens, 16:9 matches widescreen video and presentation slides, and 9:16 is the tall format of phone stories and short videos. Locking one of these keeps the box in that shape however you drag it. With Free selected, you can pull each side independently.
Common cropping tasks
Profile pictures and avatars
Most social networks, chat apps and work tools display profile photos as squares or circles. Cropping to 1:1 yourself lets you decide exactly how your face is framed, instead of letting the site centre it automatically.
Thumbnails, banners and stories
Video thumbnails and slide images usually use 16:9, while stories and vertical video covers use 9:16. Choosing the matching preset produces a picture that fills the frame without black bars or unexpected trimming by the platform.
Cleaning up screenshots
A full-screen capture often includes toolbars, tabs, notifications or a second monitor. Cropping to the window or paragraph you want to show makes the screenshot easier to read and stops you sharing more than you intended.
How the cropper works
When you open an image, the browser decodes it and applies any rotation recorded by the camera, so phone photos appear upright. A crop box covering the central 80 percent appears over a darkened preview. Drag inside the box to move it, or pull any of its eight handles to resize it. Once the box has focus, the arrow keys nudge it, and holding Shift moves it ten times further. For precision, type values in Left (px), Top (px), Width (px) and Height (px); with a ratio locked, changing the width updates the height to match.
Rotate 90° turns the picture clockwise and the button beside it turns it counter-clockwise; the crop box resets after each turn. When you download, the crop is drawn at full resolution, even though the preview may be scaled down to fit your screen. PNG is the default and is lossless. JPG and WebP show a Quality slider, default 90. Choosing JPG fills any transparent area with white, while PNG and WebP keep it. The file is named after the original with -cropped added, for example beach-cropped.png.
Как пользоваться инструментом
- Drop an image on the box above, click Choose image, or paste one from your clipboard.
- Pick an Aspect ratio (Free, 1:1, 4:3, 16:9 or 9:16) and rotate the picture if it is sideways.
- Drag the crop box and its handles, or type exact pixel values, until the size shown is what you need.
- Under Output format pick PNG, JPG or WebP, set the Quality if it appears, then press Download PNG (or Download JPG, Download WebP).
Limitations
- One image is cropped at a time; to crop another, use Choose another image.
- The presets are fixed at 1:1, 4:3, 16:9 and 9:16. For shapes like 4:5 or 3:2, use Free and type the width and height.
- Rotation works in 90 degree steps only; there is no fine straightening or flipping.
- Animated GIFs are cropped as a still image of the first frame, and camera metadata is not kept in the download.