Crop an image to a standard size

Pick a preset and the frame locks to that shape — drag it over the part of the picture that matters. Passport sizes, social media sizes, print sizes and plain aspect ratios, all cropped in your browser.

Crop an image to a standard size

or drop it here, or paste with Ctrl+V · it never leaves your device

Common aspect ratios

Passport & ID photos

Social media

Photo prints

Screens & wallpapers

Cropping, resizing and compressing are three different jobs

They get muddled constantly, and picking the wrong one is why images come back stretched or with someone's head cut off.

  • Cropping — this tool — changes what is in the picture. It throws away the parts outside the frame and touches nothing else. Use it when the shape is wrong: a wide photo that has to become a square profile picture, a snapshot that has to become a passport portrait.
  • Resizing changes how many pixels the picture has while keeping all of it. Use it when the framing is already right and only the dimensions are wrong. If the target size has a different aspect ratio, the resizer crops from the centre automatically — fine for a batch, but it cannot know what you actually wanted kept.
  • Compressing changes the file size and nothing else. Use it when a form rejects your photo for being over 200 KB, not when the shape or the dimensions are the complaint.

A great many tasks are two of these in sequence — crop to 35×45 mm here, then compress to under 50 KB for the portal that demands it. Doing them in that order matters: compressing first and cropping afterwards discards the compression work.

Why the frame is yours to place

Every automatic cropper centres the frame, because the centre is the only defensible guess a program can make without understanding the photograph. It is also wrong most of the time. Faces sit above the centre line, horizons sit below it, and the interesting third of a landscape is rarely the middle third. The frame here starts centred and stays exactly where you put it, with the shape held to the preset so you cannot accidentally deliver a 4:3 image to a 16:9 slot.

Nothing is uploaded

Your photograph is decoded, cropped and re-encoded by this browser tab. There is no server holding a copy, no queue it waits in, and nothing to delete afterwards. That is worth caring about for holiday snaps and it is worth insisting on for passport photographs, which are biometric records of your face.

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