Crop an Image
Your image stays in your browser and is never uploaded. Maximum 10 MB and 25 megapixels.
What this tool does
Cropping is different from resizing: you remove edges instead of making the whole image smaller. That is what you want when a photo has to fit a fixed ratio — square for a profile picture, wide for a header — without stretching people or buildings. Here you enter the target width and height, the crop is taken from the centre of the image and you download the result. Processing happens entirely on your own device: the file is read by your browser and redrawn on a canvas, without anything reaching our server, being logged or being kept. A file may be up to 10 MB and 25 megapixels — a limit that exists to protect your browser, not to push you towards a subscription. Beyond that: free and unlimited, including commercially, with no account, no licence and no watermark on the result.
What people use this for
- Square crop of 1080 × 1080 px
- 1200 × 630 px for a sharing image
- Cropping a portrait photo into a landscape header
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How is it decided which part is kept?
The crop is taken from the centre of the image. That works well for images where the subject sits centrally, and less well when the important part is in a corner. If you want to decide which part is kept, the social media cropper is the better choice: there you can move the frame across the photo and see exactly what falls inside it beforehand.
What is the difference between cropping and resizing?
Resizing keeps the whole image visible but makes everything smaller; cropping removes the edges while the remaining pixels keep their original size. If a photo has to move to a different ratio — from 4:3 to square, say — cropping is the right choice, because resizing into a different ratio distorts the image. In practice you often combine them: crop to the right ratio first, then resize to the pixel dimensions you need.
Is my original file safe?
The original on your disk is untouched: you download a new copy and the source file stays unchanged. And because processing happens in your browser, the photo never reaches our server. So you can use this for material you would not upload to an unfamiliar service — close the page and nothing is left behind.
Is my photo’s metadata preserved?
No. Because the image is redrawn on a canvas, EXIF data is dropped: camera model, shutter speed, date and — importantly — any GPS coordinates. For publishing on the web that is often exactly what you want, since an unedited photo quietly carries the location where it was taken. If you need that data for your archive, keep the original separately.