Crop Image: Free Image Cropper With Ratios and Circle Crop

How do I crop an image?

Press Choose a picture, or drop or paste one, and a crop box appears over it. Drag the box to move it and drag a handle to resize it, or tap a ratio such as 1:1 or 16:9. Press Apply crop, then Save picture, and download the file. Everything runs in your browser.

1. Press Choose a picture, drop a file on the page, paste a copied picture with Ctrl+V, or press Take a photo on a phone.
2. Pick a ratio: Free, Original, 1:1, 4:5, 3:2, 4:3, 16:9, 9:16 or Custom. The box takes the largest size of that shape that fits.
3. Drag inside the box to move it and drag any of the eight handles to resize it. The lines split it into thirds to help you place the subject. Arrow keys move the box; Shift moves it further.
4. Press Apply crop. Undo with the arrow button or Ctrl+Z, and press and hold the eye button to see the original.
5. Open Export to pick the format and quality, then press Save picture and Download.

The crop box works in the picture's own pixels, so a 1:1 crop is exactly square in the saved file and the size line under the ratios shows the result before you apply it. To make the cropped picture a set number of pixels, open Resize in the same editor, or use Resize Image for a batch. For the full set of editing tools on one page, see the Photo Editor.

What aspect ratio should I crop to?

Pick the ratio of the place the picture will appear: 1:1 for a square profile picture, 4:5 for a tall portrait post, 16:9 for a video thumbnail or slide, 9:16 for a full-screen story. Free cropping suits a picture that only needs a tidy edge. The table shows how much of a phone photo each ratio keeps.

A ratio is width over height, so 16:9 is 16 units wide for every 9 tall, and 9:16 is the same shape on its side. The closer a ratio is to the photo's own 4:3 shape, the more of the picture it keeps. Each service publishes its own preferred sizes and can change them, so check its help page for the exact pixels, crop to the ratio here, then resize to those pixels. Custom takes any two whole numbers, such as 2:3 for a tall print.

How do I crop an image into a circle?

Tap Circle under the ratios. The box turns square and shows a round outline; place it over the face or logo and press Apply crop. The editor saves a PNG with see-through corners, so the circle sits cleanly on any background. WebP and AVIF keep transparency too, while JPG cannot.

A circle inside a square covers pi divided by 4 of it, about 78.5 percent, so 21.5 percent of the saved square is see-through. A plain cut would leave a jagged rim, so the editor samples each pixel on the edge 16 times and makes it partly see-through by how much of it lies inside the circle. On a 1000 x 1000 circle crop, 2,892 rim pixels get that softening. A site that shows profile pictures in a circle trims a square upload itself, so a square crop is enough there. The circle crop is for places that show the picture as it is, such as slides, documents and email signatures. To make a signature picture, see the Signature Generator. The round cut has its own page, Circle Crop. To turn or mirror a picture first, see Rotate Image and Flip Image; to cut one picture into tiles, see Image Splitter.

To keep only the subject and make everything around it see-through, use Remove Background, which finds the subject with an AI model on your device.

Does cropping reduce image quality?

No. A crop keeps the pixels inside the box exactly as they were and drops the rest, so the kept part stays as sharp as the original. The saved file can still lose a little detail if you save as JPG, WebP or AVIF, which compress. PNG is lossless. Quarter turns and flips move pixels without blending them.

The editor draws the crop with a whole-pixel offset, so no pixel is blended with its neighbor. Straightening by a fine angle and resizing do blend pixels, because the new grid falls between the old pixels. JPG at quality 90, the editor's starting point for JPG photos, keeps fine detail at a much smaller size than PNG. If the cropped file must stay under an upload limit such as 200 KB, tick Keep the file under a size in Export, or shrink it later with Compress Image.

Can I crop a picture on my phone?

Yes. Choose a picture from your photo library or press Take a photo, and the editor fills the screen width. Pinch with two fingers to zoom, drag with two fingers to pan, and double-tap to fit the picture again. The handles are 44 pixels across, a comfortable size for a fingertip, and the tools sit at the bottom.

iPhone HEIC photos open too, turned upright by their camera orientation. On a phone the tool bar stays at the bottom of the screen and the open tool's settings show just above it. The Full screen button gives the picture the whole window. To turn HEIC photos into JPG files in a batch without editing them, use HEIC to JPG.