Crop an image
Drag to crop, with preset ratios, plus rotate and flip. The photo never leaves your computer.
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Cropping is often a privacy job
People crop to cut a stranger out of a holiday photo, to remove a house number, a name badge, a document sitting on the desk behind them. The picture being cropped is frequently the one you least want on somebody's server, and every popular cropper starts by uploading it.
This one does not. The image is read from your own disk, cropped in your browser and handed straight back. There is no server in the process at all.
The pixels you keep are kept exactly
Cropping does not resample anything: the selected region is copied out at its original resolution, so a crop from a 12 megapixel photo is as sharp as the original was.
The one caveat is the format. Saving as JPG re-encodes the whole picture, which costs a very small amount of quality every time. Crop once and it is invisible. If you expect to come back and crop the same file repeatedly, save as PNG in between.
The ratio presets, and what they are for
Square for profile pictures and Instagram. 4:3 is what most cameras and phones shoot. 3:2 is the classic 35mm shape, and what standard photo prints expect. 16:9 for anything going on a screen, a slide or a video thumbnail.
4:5 is the UK passport photo ratio. A digital application wants at least 600 by 750 pixels, head and shoulders, plain background. This gets you the shape; the rules about expression, glasses and background are specific and change, so read the current official guidance rather than trusting a converter about it.
Rotate before you crop
A quarter turn swaps the width and height, so the selection is reset to the whole image each time you rotate rather than being quietly clipped to something you did not choose. Straighten first, then frame.
Rotation here is in quarter turns only. Straightening a crooked horizon by a couple of degrees means resampling every pixel and cropping the corners off, which is a different job and a worse trade than most people expect.
Getting an exact size
The selection reports its real pixel size as you drag, so you can land on an exact figure by watching it. For an exact output size regardless of what you selected, crop to the right shape here and then set the size with the resize tool.
Common questions
- Is my photo uploaded?
- No. It is read from your own disk, cropped in your browser, and handed straight back. Nothing is sent to us or to anyone else, and nothing is stored. That matters here in particular, because cropping is frequently how people remove something private from a picture before sending it on.
- Does cropping reduce the quality?
- The pixels you keep are kept exactly. The one thing to know is that saving as JPG re-encodes the whole picture, which loses a very small amount each time. Save as PNG if you intend to crop the same image repeatedly.
- What size is a UK passport photo?
- A digital passport photo for a UK application must be at least 600 pixels wide by 750 tall, in the ratio 4:5, showing head and shoulders against a plain background. The 4:5 preset here gives you the ratio. Check the current official guidance for the rest, because the rules on expression, glasses and background are specific and they change.
- Why does rotating change what I can crop?
- Rotating a quarter turn swaps the width and height, so a selection that fitted before may not fit after. The selection is therefore reset to the whole image whenever you rotate, rather than being silently clipped to something you did not choose.
- Can I crop to an exact number of pixels?
- Not directly here, but the selection size is shown in real pixels as you drag, so you can get to an exact figure by watching it. To hit an exact output size, crop to the right shape and then use the resize tool.