Image Cropper

Crop any image to exact pixels or a preset ratio, with a live grid overlay.

Processed locally — nothing is uploaded

Drop an image, click to choose one, or paste a screenshot (Ctrl+V)PNG, JPEG or WebP — cropped entirely on your device

About Image Cropper

Drag the frame or type exact pixel values — the numeric fields and the handles drive the same rectangle, so a rough drag can be finished precisely. The download is drawn fresh from the kept region only, which means the discarded area is absent from the file rather than hidden inside it.

Cropping and resizing answer different questions, and mixing them up produces stretched faces and squashed logos. Resizing changes how many pixels an image has while keeping everything in frame; cropping changes what is in frame while keeping every remaining pixel exactly as it was. When a picture has to fit a shape that is not its own — a square avatar from a landscape photo, a 16:9 banner from a portrait shot — cropping to the ratio first is the move that avoids distortion, because no combination of width and height changes can fix a shape mismatch.

The frame here works at two speeds. Drag the handles for the rough gesture, with a rule-of-thirds grid overlaid because the strongest crops usually place the subject on a third rather than dead centre. Then type exact pixel values when precision matters — a platform demanding 1200×630, a sprite that must align to even numbers, a batch of images that all need identical framing. A ratio preset locks the shape through both kinds of adjustment, so hitting 1:1 or 16:9 exactly requires no arithmetic.

What ends up in the download deserves spelling out, because not every crop is a removal. Cropping in Word or PowerPoint stores a display instruction with the whole picture still in the file, and a notorious family of screenshot bugs shipped edits patched into the original file with the discarded data still trailing behind it. Here the export is a new image drawn only from the kept region: the area outside the frame is not dimmed, hidden or trailing — it does not exist in the output, and neither does the original's metadata, which does not survive re-encoding.

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Frequently asked questions

Does cropping reduce image quality?

The kept pixels are copied unchanged — cropping itself loses nothing. The encoding step is where quality can change: PNG re-encodes losslessly, while JPEG and WebP apply lossy compression to the output. For photographs the difference at this tool's quality setting is rarely visible; for screenshots, diagrams and text, choose PNG and the result is pixel-identical to the region you kept.

Can someone recover the part I cropped away?

Not from the downloaded file. The export is drawn fresh from the kept region onto a new canvas, so the discarded area is simply absent — unlike a crop in a document editor, which hides the region while keeping the whole image in the file. If the removed area is the sensitive part, this is the difference that matters.

How do I crop to an exact size like 1200×630?

Pick the nearest ratio preset (or Free), drag roughly into place, then type the exact width, height and position into the pixel fields — the frame and the numbers drive the same rectangle. If the source is smaller than the target size, crop to the right shape here and scale up is not the answer; no tool can invent the missing pixels.

Is my image uploaded to crop it?

No. Everything runs locally in your browser using standard web APIs — your text, files and inputs are never uploaded to a server, so the tool works even offline once the page has loaded.

Pro Tips

→Crop to shape first, then resize to final dimensions with the Image Resizer — shape and size are separate decisions, and doing them in that order avoids distortion.
→Use the thirds grid: placing eyes, horizons or the subject on a gridline is the oldest reliable trick in composition, and dead-centre framing is usually the weaker choice.
→Leave breathing room when cropping for platforms that overlay UI — profile rings, play buttons and captions all eat into the edges of your image.
→Type the numbers for anything that must be exact; a drag is for finding the frame, the fields are for landing it.
→Export PNG for text and UI screenshots, JPEG or WebP for photographs — the crop is identical, only the encoding differs.

Common Use Cases

•Cutting a square avatar or profile picture out of a landscape photo without squashing it.
•Producing a 16:9 header or social card from an image shot in a different shape.
•Trimming a full-screen screenshot down to just the window or dialog that matters.
•Removing a bystander, a desk edge or clutter from the border of an otherwise good photo.
•Framing product shots to one consistent ratio so a listing grid lines up.

How It Compares

Desktop editors crop with more power — content-aware fills, perspective correction, batch actions — at the cost of opening a heavyweight application for a ten-second job. Upload-based croppers handle the same quick task but take a copy of your image to do it. The combination here is the quick-job speed with the drag-plus-exact-pixels control, and an output that provably contains only what you kept.