or click this area to pick a PNG, JPG or WebP file
Cropping cuts part of the picture away and keeps only the region you selected: the composition changes and the resolution drops with it. Resizing scales the whole image up or down proportionally — nothing leaves the frame, only the pixel dimensions change. Compressing lowers the file size at the same dimensions, usually at the cost of image quality. The three get talked about interchangeably, but they solve different problems: crop when there is clutter in the frame, and when an image is "too big" to upload, first work out whether it is the dimensions or the file size that is over the limit.
1:1 covers avatars, product thumbnails and the square slots on most social platforms. 16:9 covers video thumbnails, slides and landscape banners. 3:4 and 4:3 are the native ratios of cameras and phones, and the usual choice for portrait shots in a product listing. A long strip around 2:1 suits a hero banner at the top of a page. When in doubt, look at whether the target slot is landscape or portrait, lock that ratio and then crop — much less work than discovering the platform cropped your image a second time.
Avatar slots are usually displayed as a circle or a rounded square, which cuts the four corners off, so keep the face away from the edges and leave some room around it. ID photos come with strict size and head-proportion rules — go by the specification the accepting office gives you. This tool can crop to a ratio, but it does not replace the background colour or lay pages out for printing. Once cropped, if you still need to confirm the background really is transparent, you can check it with PNG Transparent Background Checker afterwards.
The pixels that survive are copied as they are, with no interpolation, so sharpness does not drop. PNG and WebP are saved losslessly and match the original pixel for pixel; JPG has to be re-encoded once, which is a theoretical loss you will not see under normal viewing. Occasionally the file comes out larger than the original after cropping — that usually means the original was compressed hard and the re-encode used a more conservative quality setting. It has nothing to do with the cropping itself.
Drop an image onto the page or click to pick a file, and a draggable crop box appears. Drag its edges or corners to resize it, drag from inside to move it, then click “Download crop” to save the new image. No sign-up and no software to install.
PNG, JPG (JPEG) and WebP. The export matches the source: give it a PNG and you get a PNG, give it a JPG and you get a JPG. If your browser cannot encode WebP, the download falls back to PNG automatically.
Yes. PNG and WebP exports keep the original alpha channel, so transparent backgrounds, soft shadows and anti-aliased icon edges are not silently filled with white. JPG has no transparency of its own, so the question does not arise when cropping a JPG.
A free crop lets you set width and height independently, which is quickest when you just want to grab an area. A fixed ratio locks the proportions: 1:1 suits avatars and square icons, while 4:3 and 16:9 suit cover images, slides and video thumbnails.
The selection size is the area you are cutting out of the original; the output size is the pixel size the download is finally scaled to. You might, for instance, select a 1000×1000 region of a large image and export it as a 512×512 icon.
If the output size is smaller than the selection, the image is scaled down — usually crisp-looking, but with less detail. If it is larger, the image is scaled up and may turn blurry. Keeping the output close to the selection's own ratio and size gives the best result.
Avatars, logos, icons, product shots, stickers, transparent-background assets, photos and regions of a screenshot. If the result needs to stay transparent, use PNG or WebP rather than JPG.
No. Reading the file, previewing the crop and exporting the result all happen locally in your browser; the page never sends your image to a server, which makes it safe for unreleased design assets and internal material.
Browsers cap canvas dimensions and memory use. A huge source image or an extreme output size can make the crop fail, slow the page down, or produce an empty export. If that happens, shrink the original first or lower the output size before downloading.