Crop Image

Upload one or more images and an interactive editor opens with the image displayed. Drag inside the highlighted box to move it, drag any edge or corner handle to resize it, or click and drag outside the box to draw a brand-new selection. Choose an aspect ratio preset — free, 1:1, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9, 21:9, 9:16 and more — or type a custom ratio, and the crop box snaps to it. The cropped result is rendered live in a preview panel and every image is processed locally with the HTML5 Canvas API; nothing is ever uploaded.

Yes — 100% private. Cropping and encoding run entirely in your browser using JavaScript and the Canvas API. Your images never leave your device, so confidential photos or documents are safe. The tool also works offline after the page has loaded.

An aspect ratio is the proportional relationship between width and height, written like 16:9 (widescreen) or 1:1 (square). Common presets map to real use cases: 1:1 and 4:5 for Instagram feeds, 16:9 for YouTube thumbnails and landscape video, 9:16 for Stories and Reels, 3:2 for classic photography, and 21:9 for ultrawide banners. Pick a preset and every image in your batch is re-fitted to that ratio around its center; you can still fine-tune each image afterwards.

Yes. Drop several images at once and they appear in a thumbnail strip — click a thumbnail to edit that image's crop box. The aspect ratio setting is shared across the batch, so switching to 1:1 refits every image to a centered square. Each image keeps its own crop box after you adjust it, and the "Download all" button saves every cropped image with an automatic "-cropped" filename.

Usually, yes. Cropping removes pixels, and fewer pixels almost always means a smaller file — the savings badge on each result card shows exactly how much. The biggest wins come from cropping out empty or distracting areas and, when you also want a smaller file, switching the output to WebP or JPEG. The result card turns orange if a cropped file is ever larger than the original, so you can spot that immediately.

Yes. The output format (original, JPEG, WebP, or PNG) and quality slider (5–100%) apply to the whole batch. Keep "Original" if you only want to crop, or use WebP for the smallest files with transparency support and JPEG for photos. Since cropping re-encodes the image anyway, this is a convenient moment to convert formats.

They are discarded. Cropping keeps only the area inside your selection and permanently removes everything else from the output — the cropped pixels cannot be recovered afterwards. If you are not sure about a crop, keep a copy of the original before downloading, or just upload the original again and pick a bigger selection.

It shouldn't — this tool never distorts images. When an aspect ratio is locked, the crop box keeps that ratio as you resize it, so the output always preserves proportions. Stretching happens only in editors that force a crop to exact pixels regardless of aspect. If you want a specific pixel size after cropping, pair this tool with our Resize Image tool to scale the cropped result to exactly the dimensions you need.