Crop an image

Crop photographs, product shots, profile pictures, and slide graphics to a consistent shape without uploading them. Pick a shape, such as square, 4:5 for a portrait post, 9:16 for a story, or free, then drag the crop box over the part of the picture you want to keep, or type its width and height in pixels. With a ratio chosen the box stays locked to it 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 ratios cover the shapes platforms actually ask for, and Free covers everything else. Circle crops a square and saves it as a PNG with transparent corners, ready for a profile picture or a round logo; a WebP stays WebP, which keeps transparency too.

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. An optional JPG setting keeps the photo date, camera details, and ICC colour profile but removes location metadata. 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.