Crop an image online
Trim your photos to the shape you need — square for social, wide for banners and more. Cropping runs in your browser, so nothing is uploaded.
How to crop an image
Crop a photo online to a square or portrait
Choose Square for a 1:1 crop or Portrait for 4:5, drop in your photos, and each one is trimmed to that shape. The crop is centered: the tool keeps the middle of the frame and trims the longer sides evenly, which suits most photos because the subject is usually near the center. Nothing is resized, so the cropped photo keeps the full detail of the part you keep.
Because every photo in the batch is cropped the same way, it is quick to turn a whole set into matching squares for a grid or matching portraits for a feed. If the subject of a particular photo sits near one edge, a centered crop may cut into it, so check those results before you post them.
You can crop JPG, PNG, WebP and iPhone HEIC photos, up to 30 at a time. HEIC photos are decoded in your browser first and come back as JPGs, so the cropped versions open everywhere.
Crop a JPG without losing quality
Cropping removes pixels from the edges; it does not need to touch the pixels you keep. The cropped JPG is saved again at high quality with exactly the same pixel detail as that area of the original, so a face or a product in the middle looks just as sharp as before. What you lose is the trimmed area, which is the point of cropping.
The one thing that does cost quality is repeated saving. If you crop a photo, then crop the result again, then compress it, each JPG save adds a little loss. Start from the original each time you need a different shape and the quality stays where it was. Your original file is never altered, since the tool always creates a new copy.
Cropping also makes the file smaller, simply because there are fewer pixels to store. A square crop of a wide landscape photo can remove almost half the image, and the file size drops with it, which is handy when an upload form has a size limit.
Which aspect ratio to use
Square, 1:1, is the safe choice for profile pictures, product listings and social grids. Portrait, 4:5, is the tallest shape most social feeds show in full and takes up more of the screen on a phone. Standard, 4:3, is the shape many phone cameras shoot by default and suits slides and documents. Photo, 3:2, is the classic camera and print shape, the same proportions as a 6 by 4 inch print. Wide, 16:9, matches TV screens, video thumbnails, website banners and laptop wallpapers.
When a site gives you an exact size in pixels, crop to the matching ratio first and then resize to the width it asks for. A 1200 by 675 banner, for example, is 16:9, so a Wide crop followed by a 1200 pixel resize gets you there without any stretching.
Not sure which to choose? Look at where the photo will be shown and match its shape. Most sites and apps show their preferred shape in the upload preview, and cropping to it yourself means the platform does not crop your photo for you in a way you did not intend.