Crop Image
Crop any image with aspect presets and pixel precision, at full original resolution. 100% free, no signup. Everything runs in your browser.
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This free image cropper lets you upload a photo, drag a crop box with corner and edge handles, and download exactly the region you framed as a PNG or JPG at the original resolution. Aspect presets cover the crops people actually need: free-form, 1:1 square, 4:3, 16:9, 9:16 vertical and a 1200 by 630 preset for social link previews. The pixel dimensions of your selection update live as you drag, so you always know precisely what you are about to export.
The part I care most about is that your image never leaves your machine. The crop happens on a canvas inside your browser, with no upload, no server and no account, which matters more than people think when the photo is a screenshot of something private, a child, or a document. When the crop is done, my image compressor will shrink the file for the web without visible quality loss.
How to use
- Upload an image by clicking the upload area or dragging a file onto it.
- Choose an aspect preset such as free, 1:1, 4:3, 16:9, 9:16 or 1200 by 630, or leave it free-form.
- Drag the crop box into position and resize it with the corner and edge handles.
- Watch the live pixel dimensions to confirm the exact output size.
- Pick PNG or JPG as the output format.
- Download the cropped image, saved at the original resolution of the selected area.
Why use our crop image?
Privacy is the headline benefit and it is not a marketing line. Most online croppers upload your photo to a server, process it there and hold a copy for some retention window you never read about. This tool draws your image onto an HTML canvas and crops it with browser APIs, so the file stays in your device's memory the whole time. You can disconnect from the internet after the page loads and everything still works. The technology behind it is the standard Canvas API documented on MDN, the same one browser games and drawing apps use.
No resolution penalty is the second big one. Plenty of free croppers quietly downscale your image or stamp a watermark on the way out. Here, the cropped area is exported pixel for pixel at its original resolution: crop a 4000 by 3000 photo down to its middle third and you get every one of those original pixels back, untouched.
The aspect presets exist because guessing ratios by eye goes wrong constantly. Square for profile photos and Instagram grids, 16:9 for YouTube thumbnails and presentation slides, 9:16 for Stories, Reels and TikTok, 4:3 for classic photo prints, and 1200 by 630 for the link preview cards on Facebook and LinkedIn. Lock the ratio, and the crop box refuses to drift out of shape no matter how you drag.
Live pixel dimensions turn cropping from guesswork into measurement. When a form demands an image of at least 800 by 800, you can watch the numbers as you drag instead of exporting, checking, and re-cropping three times. I used to do exactly that dance with screenshot tools, and building the live readout was me fixing my own annoyance.
Finally, the PNG or JPG choice at export means one less trip through a converter. PNG keeps screenshots and graphics crisp, JPG keeps photos small. And if the crop still is not the final size you need, my image resizer scales it to exact dimensions as the natural next step.
Who is this tool for?
Profile pictures are the daily driver. Every platform wants a square-ish headshot, and every phone photo is a rectangle with you slightly off-center. Lock 1:1, frame your face, export, done. I re-crop my own headshot this way every time a platform inevitably asks for yet another avatar.
Content creators crop constantly: a 16:9 frame for a YouTube thumbnail, a 9:16 slice of the same image for a Story, a 1200 by 630 version for the blog's social card. Doing all three from one source image takes about a minute here, and because nothing is re-encoded until export, each version comes from the full-quality original.
Screenshots for documentation or bug reports almost always need cropping, both to focus on the relevant UI and to cut out things that should not be shared, like an email address in a browser tab or a name in a taskbar. Cropping locally is the sensible way to do that, since the whole point is that the uncropped version contains something private. For photos, remember the metadata too: my EXIF remover strips location data before you post.
Sellers on eBay, Etsy and Facebook Marketplace crop product photos to a clean square so listings look consistent in the grid. Crop tight, then compress the result so the listing loads fast on mobile, where most buyers are browsing.
Frequently asked questions
No. The image is read directly into your browser's memory, drawn onto a canvas, and cropped entirely on your device. No upload happens at any point, which you can verify by loading the page and then switching off your internet connection; the tool keeps working.
The crop itself is lossless: you get the selected pixels at their original resolution. If you export as JPG there is one round of standard JPG encoding, which is visually indistinguishable for photos. Choose PNG for screenshots, text and graphics where you want zero compression artifacts.
That is the standard size for social link preview images, the cards that appear when a page is shared on Facebook, LinkedIn or in messaging apps. Cropping your hero image to exactly that frame means the preview never gets awkwardly auto-cropped by the platform.
Yes, the free preset puts no constraint on the box, so you can drag any rectangle you like. The locked presets exist for when a platform demands a specific shape and eyeballing it would get the ratio slightly wrong.
Anything your browser can display, which covers JPG, PNG, WebP and GIF stills. iPhone HEIC photos are the common exception because most browsers cannot decode them, so run those through my HEIC to JPG converter first and then crop the result here.
Yes. Lock the matching ratio, then drag while watching the live dimension readout until it shows the numbers you need. If you need a precise size that the crop cannot hit exactly, crop to the right shape here and then scale to exact pixels with the resizer.
No fixed limit is imposed by the tool. Because processing happens on your device, the practical ceiling is your browser's memory, and ordinary photos up to tens of megapixels crop smoothly on any recent phone or laptop.