Crop Image

Drag out the part you want to keep — and rotate or flip it while you are there.

Drop a picture here or click to choose one · or paste a screenshot (Ctrl/⌘ + V)

Nothing is uploaded. The picture is cropped by your own browser.

🔒 Runs entirely in your browser — nothing you type is uploaded or stored on a server.

Drag a rectangle over the part of the picture you want to keep and download it. Lock the selection to a square, 16:9, 4:3, 3:2 or a portrait shape when you need to match a profile picture or a video thumbnail, or leave it free and take exactly the region you drew.

Also on Txtset: change the size rather than the shape · add caption text to it · mirror it or straighten a crooked horizon · turn an iPhone HEIC into a JPG first.

Nothing is uploaded. The picture is decoded by your browser and cropped on your device; there is no server, no account and no watermark. The rule-of-thirds guides over the selection are there because they are genuinely useful when you are recomposing a photo, not as decoration.

Rotate and flip are here too, and they apply to the real pixels before the crop — so a photo that came off the camera on its side can be straightened and trimmed in one visit. EXIF rotation is baked in on load, which means a phone photo appears the right way up from the start rather than being cropped sideways.

Changing the shape is not the same as changing the size: if you want the same picture with fewer pixels, use the image resizer. If the file is simply too big to send, compress it. To put the cropped picture to work, try the collage maker or the meme generator.

How to use

  1. Drop a picture on the box, click to choose one, or paste a screenshot straight from the clipboard.
  2. Drag across the picture to draw the part you want to keep. Everything outside it is dimmed.
  3. Choose a shape if you need a fixed ratio — the selection is constrained as you drag and stays inside the picture.
  4. Rotate or flip if the photo needs straightening. Those buttons change the picture itself, not just the view.
  5. Pick a format and download. The status line tells you exactly how many pixels you kept.

Examples

A profile picture
Locking to Square and dragging over a face gives a crop that will not be trimmed again by whatever you upload it to.
A 16:9 thumbnail
Choosing Widescreen constrains the selection as you drag, so the result needs no second pass to fit a video player.
A sideways photo
Rotate right, then crop — both applied to the real pixels, so the downloaded file is upright everywhere, not just here.

Frequently asked questions

Is my picture uploaded anywhere?
No. There is no server behind this page. Your browser decodes the file, the crop happens on a canvas on your device, and the result is saved locally. You can turn off your internet connection once the page has loaded and it still works.
Does cropping lose quality?
Cropping itself does not — the pixels you keep are the original pixels at their original resolution. Saving as JPEG or WebP re-encodes them, which loses a little; saving as PNG does not lose anything at all.
What is the difference between this and the image resizer?
Cropping throws away part of the picture and keeps the rest at full resolution. Resizing keeps the whole picture and changes how many pixels it is made of. If a website has asked for a square photo, crop. If it has asked for one no wider than 1200 pixels, resize.
Will my phone photo come out sideways?
No. The EXIF orientation tag is read and applied to the pixels as soon as the picture loads, so what you see is what a viewer will see. Not doing this is the usual reason a cropped phone photo ends up rotated.
Does it strip my photo’s metadata?
Yes, all of it, including the GPS coordinates a phone writes into every picture. That is a side effect of re-encoding, and on balance a welcome one — the cropped file you share carries no location.
Why is the WebP option sometimes ignored?
Because not every browser can actually encode WebP, and some answer a request for it with a PNG and no error at all. The page checks what came back and names the file after the format it really is, rather than handing you a .webp full of PNG bytes.
Can I type exact pixel coordinates?
Not on this page. The selection is drawn and the exact size is reported as you go. For a precise output size, crop to the right shape here and then set the pixel dimensions in the image resizer.
How big a picture can I open?
As large as your browser can decode. Very large photographs are displayed scaled down to fit the screen, but the crop is always taken from the full-resolution original, so you never lose detail to the preview.

Related tools

Image ResizerResize a picture to any width, height or percentage — in your browser, with nothing uploaded anywhere.Image CompressorMake an image file smaller — by quality or to an exact size in kilobytes, with the real number shown, not an estimate.WebP / PNG / JPEG ConverterConvert between WebP, PNG and JPEG — one file or twenty, all inside your browser.Collage MakerSeveral pictures, one file — arranged the way you want, on your own device.Meme GeneratorYour picture, the classic white-on-black lettering, downloaded straight from your browser.Image to PDFPut one picture or fifty into a single PDF — in your browser, with nothing uploaded anywhere.