Crop an image online
Drag a box over the part to keep, lock it to 1:1, 3:4, 4:3, 16:9 or 9:16, nudge with the arrow keys, and download at full resolution with nothing uploaded.
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Zoom shows your profile photo in a small square and decided the top of your head was the interesting part. LinkedIn's headshot cropper is fine until you need the shoulders in the frame. YouTube pads a phone photo with black bars to make it 16:9, and Etsy's search grid trims the edge off a product that filled the shot. None of those are resolution problems; they are framing problems, and the fix is to choose the box before the platform chooses it for you.
This is the free-form crop. Press Crop on any image in the queue, drag the box over the part to keep and pull the eight handles until it looks right, or tap a ratio chip (1:1, 3:4, 4:3, 16:9, 9:16) and the box holds that shape while you move it. The arrow keys shift it one pixel at a time, Shift + arrow ten. A Circle chip turns a square selection into a round PNG with transparent corners, and all of it works with a finger on a phone.
Whatever ends up inside the box is written out pixel for pixel: a 4,000 × 3,000 photo cropped to 16:9 becomes 4,000 × 2,250, nothing scaled or stretched. The image is drawn on a canvas in your browser and the JPG, PNG or WebP is generated right there, so a 24-megapixel photo is cropped as fast as a screenshot, with no upload bar and no server copy.
How it works
One drag sets the frame; two clicks do the rest.
Add the photo
Drop it on the page, pick it from your camera roll or file browser, or paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V (Cmd+V on a Mac). JPG, PNG, WebP, iPhone HEIC, GIF (first frame), BMP and SVG all open, and you can queue several files at once.
Pick a ratio and frame the box
Under Crop ratio in the settings panel choose Free, 1:1, 3:4, 4:3, 16:9, 9:16 or Circle, then press Crop on the image. Drag the box, resize it with the handles, nudge it with the arrow keys and confirm. Skip the editor and a locked ratio is applied centered.
Generate, check, download
Press Generate images. Each result card shows the cropped image's pixel dimensions and file size, and Compare puts it beside the original. Download one file, or the whole batch as a .zip.
Which ratio each platform is really asking for
Upload forms rarely say "aspect ratio"; they say 400 × 400 or 1280 × 720. This maps those numbers to the chips on this page.
| Ratio | Where it is used | Typical pixel size |
|---|---|---|
| 1:1 | LinkedIn, Zoom and Slack profile photos; Etsy listings; Instagram square posts | 400 × 400 (Zoom minimum), 800 × 800 (LinkedIn), 2,000 × 2,000 (Etsy) |
| 3:4 | Portrait prints, ID and passport-style photos | 1,080 × 1,440 |
| 4:3 | Etsy search thumbnails, iPad screens, point-and-shoot cameras | 2,000 × 1,500 |
| 16:9 | YouTube thumbnails, Zoom virtual backgrounds, slide decks | 1,280 × 720, 1,920 × 1,080 |
| 9:16 | Instagram Stories and Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts | 1,080 × 1,920 |
| Circle | Round avatars where you control the background | Square selection, transparent corners |
| Free | Instagram 4:5 posts, X headers (3:1), anything without a chip | e.g. 1,080 × 1,350 |
Nothing inside the box is resampled
Cropping here is a copy, not a resize: the pixels inside the box go into the new file one for one, so sharpness is unchanged. The only change is the re-encode: JPG at the slider value (82 by default, invisible on a photo), PNG lossless, WebP lighter for the web.
A crop never adds pixels: a 900-px-wide 1:1 box on a 1,200-px photo gives a 900 × 900 file, and a form with a 1,000-px minimum still refuses it. Nor does it change scale: a 4,000 × 2,250 thumbnail stays a 4,000-px file until you resize it. The box is taken from the full-resolution source; only a cropped result wider or taller than 10,000 px is scaled down to that limit.
Camera metadata is dropped, so a listing photo shot in your kitchen carries no GPS coordinates to Etsy.
Three crops that go wrong the same way every time
- LinkedIn headshot (1:1): face about 60% of the square, eyes a third of the way down, tight enough to read at the 48-px feed size. LinkedIn draws its own circle, so upload a square.
- YouTube thumbnail (16:9): the duration badge covers the bottom-right corner, about a tenth of the width, so keep faces and text out of it. Crop, then resize to 1,280 × 720 under 2 MB.
- Etsy listing (1:1, 2,000 px or more): leave about 10% margin on each side; Etsy shows the same file as a 4:3 thumbnail in search, and the margin keeps the product from being clipped.
Batch, keyboard and the Circle chip
Add ten images with 1:1 selected and press Generate: each is cropped to a centered square without opening the editor. Open Crop only where the subject is off center; every image keeps its own box.
In the editor, the arrow keys move the box one pixel and Shift + arrow ten, for lining a crop up with a hairline border; Esc closes without applying. Circle locks the box square, switches output to PNG on its own and makes everything outside the circle transparent: a 1,000 × 1,000 selection gives a 1,000 × 1,000 PNG with clear corners.
Frequently asked questions
How do I crop to 4:5 for an Instagram portrait post?
There is no 4:5 chip, so leave Free selected, drag a box a little taller than it is wide and read the dimensions on the result card: height should be 1.25 × width, for example 1,080 × 1,350. Pull a handle to correct it and generate again if it is a few pixels off.
Does cropping lower the quality of my photo?
No. The pixels inside the box are copied as they are; nothing is resampled. The only loss is the JPG re-encode at the slider value (82 by default), which is not visible on a photo. Choose PNG for a byte-exact copy of the area.
I need exactly 1280 × 720. Can this page do that?
The crop sets the shape, not the size. Lock 16:9 here, download, then open the file in Resize image and set a width of 1280; the height lands on 720 by itself because the ratio is already right.
Can I move the crop box with the keyboard?
Yes. With the editor open, the arrow keys move the box 1 px in any direction and Shift + arrow moves it 10 px. The handles are for resizing and take a mouse or a finger; Esc closes the editor without applying.
Can I crop several photos at once?
Yes. Add as many files as your device's memory allows; the ratio you pick applies to every image, and images you never open in the editor are cropped centered at that ratio. Open Crop on any image to place its box by hand, then download everything as a .zip.
What does the Circle chip actually produce?
A PNG with everything outside the circle transparent. The box is locked square, so a 1,000 × 1,000 selection gives a 1,000 × 1,000 PNG with clear corners. Zoom, Slack and LinkedIn round avatars themselves, so a plain 1:1 crop is enough there; use Circle for a website or slide where you control the background.
Does it open HEIC photos straight from an iPhone?
Yes. The first HEIC triggers a one-time download of a decoder of about 1 MB; the photo itself stays on the phone. Output is JPG, PNG or WebP, which is what the upload forms want anyway.
Is a photo of my driver's license or a signed form safe to crop here?
The crop runs on a canvas inside your browser; nothing is uploaded and there is no server copy to delete afterward. EXIF, including GPS location, is stripped from the output.