Crop Image
Crop to a shape, a size, or just by eye.
Drop an image here
Or choose a file, or paste a screenshot. It is read on your device and never uploaded.
Reading the image…
That didn't work.
Drag inside the picture to draw a new box. Click the box and the arrow keys move it — hold Shift to resize.
Your image is cropped on your device and never uploaded.
Keyboard shortcuts
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About the Pathine Crop Image
Cuts a picture down to the part you actually want. Drag a box over the image, or pick a shape — square, 4:5, 3:2, 16:9, 9:16 — and drag within it. The area outside the box is dimmed rather than hidden, so you are always choosing the crop against the photo it came from.
The box is the preview. Whatever is inside it is exactly what downloads, at the pixel dimensions shown beside the button, so there is nothing to check afterwards and no second version of the image to compare against.
Everything happens in this browser tab. The file is read on your device, cropped on a canvas, and handed back — it is never uploaded, which matters more for cropping than for most things, since the reason people crop is usually that something is in the frame they do not want other people to see.
When you'd reach for it
Getting a profile picture out of a photo
Most sites want a square and will crop one themselves, badly. Choosing the square yourself is the difference between a portrait and the top of your head.
Cutting something out of a screenshot
A screenshot is usually a whole window when what you meant to share is one panel of it. Cropping to that panel is faster than annotating an arrow pointing at it.
Removing what is at the edge of the frame
A name on an envelope, a face at the side, a street sign. If it is near a border, cropping takes it out of the file entirely rather than covering it up.
Fitting the shape a platform expects
4:5 for a portrait post, 16:9 for a video thumbnail, 9:16 for a story. Picking the shape first means the platform has nothing left to trim.
How to crop an image
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Add your image
Drop it here, choose a file, or paste a screenshot straight from the clipboard. It opens with the whole picture selected.
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Choose a shape, or stay free
Free lets the box be any proportion. Pick Square, 4:5, 3:2, 16:9 or 9:16 and the box holds that shape however you drag it.
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Drag the box
Drag inside the picture to draw a new box, drag the box itself to move it, and drag a corner or an edge to resize. Click the box first and the arrow keys nudge it; hold Shift and they resize it.
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Download
The exact pixel size and the file size are shown beside the button. Your original file is not touched.
Common questions
Is my image uploaded?
No. It is read and cropped in this browser tab, and the cropped copy is built on your device. Nothing is sent anywhere, there is no queue, and there is nothing on a server to delete afterwards.
What size will the cropped image be?
Exactly the number of pixels shown next to the download button — the crop is measured in the image's own pixels, not in whatever size it happens to be displayed at here. Cropping never scales anything up, so the result is always sharp.
Does cropping reduce quality?
The pixels you keep are the pixels you had. A JPG is re-compressed when it is saved, at a high enough quality that the difference is not visible, because a JPG cannot be rewritten any other way. PNG and WebP files are saved without any loss at all.
Does it keep the camera and location data?
No — a cropped file comes out without the EXIF block, so the camera, the date and any GPS coordinates are gone. That is usually welcome, but if you need the date kept, crop from a copy and keep the original. To strip that data without cropping, use the EXIF Remover.
Can I crop several images at once?
Not here, and deliberately. One crop box in image pixels means something different in every photo it is applied to, so a batch crop either resizes everything first or puts the box in the wrong place on most of them. To make a set of images the same size, use the Image Resizer.
What formats can it open?
JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF, BMP and HEIC from an iPhone. The result is saved in the same format it came in as, so cropping does not quietly change your file type.