Free · In your browser · No upload
Crop an image
Drag to select the area you want to keep, choose an aspect ratio preset, and download the result.
Need more than one operation? Open the full editor to combine tools and reorder your edits.
Cropping is the one edit that never costs you any quality. Every other operation involves a trade-off — compression discards detail, resizing throws away pixels, rotation resamples them — but a crop simply stops including the parts you did not want. The pixels that remain are bit-for-bit the pixels you started with.
The crop here is applied at the image’s full native resolution, not at the size of the preview on screen. If you load a 6000-pixel-wide photo and drag a selection over a preview that is 800 pixels wide, the coordinates are scaled back up before the cut is made, so you get the full-resolution result rather than a downscaled one.
How it works
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Drop an image onto the workspace, click to browse, or paste one straight from your clipboard with Ctrl+V — useful for screenshots you have just taken.
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Drag on the image to draw a selection, then drag its corners to fine-tune. For a fixed shape, pick an aspect preset first: 1:1 for profile pictures and most social posts, 16:9 for video thumbnails and slides, 4:3 or 3:2 for prints.
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Click Apply crop. The dimensions readout updates to the cropped size so you can confirm the result before saving.
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Choose a format and download. PNG keeps the crop completely lossless; JPEG or WebP will re-compress it.
Frequently asked questions
Does cropping reduce image quality?
Not in itself — cropping only removes pixels outside your selection, and the ones you keep are untouched. The only quality question is what you export to afterwards: choose PNG and the result is genuinely lossless, choose JPEG and the whole image is re-compressed on the way out.
Which aspect ratio should I pick?
Use 1:1 for profile pictures and most social feed posts, 16:9 for video thumbnails and presentation slides, and 3:2 or 4:3 for photographic prints, since those match standard paper sizes. Choose Free when you are cropping to the content rather than to a target format.
Can I crop to exact pixel dimensions?
The crop tool works by selection rather than by typed numbers, so the precise way to hit an exact size is to crop to the right shape first, then use the resize tool to set the exact pixel dimensions. Doing it in that order means you control the composition and the final size independently.
Is the file I crop sent anywhere?
No. Cropping happens on a canvas element inside your own browser — the file is read from your disk into memory and never transmitted. Because there is no upload step, the crop is applied the instant you click, with no waiting on a network round trip.
Can I undo a crop I am not happy with?
Yes. Undo steps back one operation and Reset returns to the image you loaded. If you want to combine a crop with other edits and still be able to change your mind about any of them later, the full editor keeps every step in a list you can reorder or delete.