Crop an image

Crop photographs, product shots, profile pictures, and slide graphics to a consistent shape without uploading them. Pick square, landscape, widescreen, or portrait, then drag the crop box over the part of the picture you want to keep. The box stays locked to the chosen ratio while you move and resize it, and rule-of-thirds guides follow it so a horizon or a face can be placed deliberately rather than by eye. The box opens centred, which is often already right for a headshot.

Cropping only ever removes pixels. Nothing is stretched, nothing is invented at the edges, and a 1:1 crop of a 4000 by 3000 photograph gives you 3000 by 3000 pixels at the original quality. If the picture then has to be an exact size, such as 1080 by 1080 for a profile, crop here first and resize afterwards, in that order: cropping a resized image throws away pixels you paid quality for.

The four ratios cover the shapes platforms actually ask for, and there is no free-form option. Anyone who needs an unusual crop is better served by the full image editor, where the crop sits alongside the other adjustments.

The output keeps the format it arrived in, which is worth knowing for a JPG. Re-encoding a JPG loses a small amount of detail every time, so make one crop from the original rather than trimming a file repeatedly across a morning. A PNG is written back losslessly and carries no such cost, and a WebP is re-encoded like a JPG.

Decoding, the crop itself, and encoding all happen in a browser worker, so the picture stays on your machine. That is the difference that matters when the image is a passport photograph or a picture of a child being trimmed for a school form, neither of which needs to sit in an upload queue to have its edges taken off.