Crop image

How to Crop image

1. Press Choose pictures and pick one photo, or drop it on the box above.
2. Under Shape, pick Free or a fixed shape. Use Turn left, Turn right or Mirror if needed.
3. Drag the box or its corners over the part to keep. The line below shows the result size in pixels.
4. Press Crop, then Download.

The shapes, and when to use each

When you pick a shape, the box jumps to a large box of that shape in the middle of the photo, with a small margin around it. Move it by dragging inside it, and make it smaller or larger from any corner. With a fixed shape the box keeps its proportions while you drag; with Free each side moves on its own. Shapes are width to height.

• Free: any rectangle, for cutting away edges, a messy background or a screenshot’s bars.
• 1:1: a square, the usual shape for profile pictures and many form photos.
• 4:5 and 3:4: upright photos, for portrait posts and prints.
• 4:3 and 16:9: wide photos, for slides, screens and video thumbnails. 9:16 is the tall phone-screen shape used for stories and wallpapers.
• Passport 35×45 mm: the shape of a common passport photo, 35 wide by 45 tall.

About the passport shape

Passport 35×45 mm sets the shape of the box only. It does not make the picture print at 35 × 45 mm, it does not change the background, and it does not check the photo against any rules, such as head size, lighting or what you wear. Read the rules of the office or form you are applying to, and follow them when you take and crop the photo.

If the form also asks for an exact size in pixels or a limit in KB, crop here first, then use Resize image to set the pixels and Compress image with Fit a size to meet the KB limit.

Turning and mirroring

Turn left and Turn right rotate the photo a quarter turn each time. Because the photo changes from wide to tall or back, the box is set again to a large centred box of your shape, so check it after turning. Mirror flips the photo like a reflection, which fixes selfies where writing appears backwards; the box stays where it is. The preview shows exactly what you will get, so look at it again if you both turn and mirror a photo.

To turn or mirror a photo without cutting anything, drag each corner of the box right out to the photo’s edges with Free selected. Photos are opened the right way up, using the rotation a phone saves with them, so most sideways photos already look upright here.

The file you get

• A PNG stays PNG, so see-through areas are kept. A WebP stays WebP when your browser can save WebP.
• Everything else, including JPG, iPhone HEIC photos and GIFs, is saved as JPG at quality 92 out of 100. Only the first frame of an animated GIF is used.
• The name ends in -cropped, for example photo-cropped.jpg.
• The cropped photo is a new picture drawn in your browser, so it carries none of the original’s hidden camera details, like the date or the GPS location of the shot.
• Photos larger than about 16 megapixels are first scaled down to that size, the most a browser can draw, so a crop from a very large photo has slightly fewer pixels.
• HEIC photos open only in browsers that can read them, such as Safari on iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Everything happens in your browser: your file is never uploaded to any server. You can check: once your file is open, turn on airplane mode — the tool still works.

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