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Crop any photo, down to the pixel

Drag to frame it, snap to a preset ratio, or type exact pixel values. Turn on circle mode for avatars with truly transparent corners. Your photo never leaves your device.

Runs entirely in your browser. Your files never leave your device.

How to crop an image

  1. 1

    Add your photo

    Drop in a JPG, PNG, WebP, or HEIC file. It is loaded straight into the editor on your device — nothing is uploaded.

  2. 2

    Frame the crop

    Drag the handles, pick a ratio like 1:1 or 16:9, or type exact X, Y, width and height values. Rotate and flip if the shot needs straightening.

  3. 3

    Pick a format and download

    Save as PNG for transparency and sharp graphics, or JPG and WebP for smaller photos. Circle crops always download as PNG.

Cropping questions

Turn on the Circle crop switch. The selection locks to a perfect square, the preview becomes round, and the exported file has a real circle cut out of it — the four corners are transparent pixels, not white ones. Circle crops are always saved as PNG, because JPG has no transparency and would fill those corners with a solid colour.

Choose the 1:1 preset and the selection keeps a perfect square no matter how you drag it. If you need an exact size, such as a 512 × 512 profile picture, type the width and height into the pixel boxes instead — the crop box on the canvas follows what you type.

Cropping throws away the pixels outside your selection, so the result has fewer pixels than the original — that is the point, not a defect. The pixels you keep are re-saved once in the format you choose: PNG keeps them exactly as they were, and JPG or WebP at quality 90 is visually indistinguishable for photos.

Yes. The X, Y, width and height boxes are wired to the crop box in both directions: drag on the canvas and the numbers update, type a number and the selection jumps to match. Values are clamped to the image bounds, so you can never crop past the edge.

1:1 for profile pictures and most feed posts, 16:9 for YouTube thumbnails, presentation slides and desktop wallpapers, 9:16 for Stories, Reels and TikTok, and 4:3 or 3:4 for classic photo prints. Pick Free when the composition matters more than the frame.

Yes. The visible pixels are the only thing that survives: the tool draws your selection onto a fresh canvas and encodes that, so the area you cropped away is not stored anywhere in the output. This is worth knowing because it is not universally true — some editors keep the full original inside the file and merely record a crop rectangle, which means anyone can undo it. Note that a crop also drops EXIF, so location and camera data go with it.

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Beyond Cropping

Reframe by Describing It

A crop can only remove. When the framing is wrong because the angle, the subject, or the background is wrong, no rectangle fixes it — in the studio you upload the same photo and say what should be different.

  • Edit a photo by describing the change in plain words
  • Generate a fresh version at the ratio you need
  • Animate the final frame into a short clip
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