Crop Image
Crop a photo freely or to 1:1, 4:5, 3:4, 2:3, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9 or 9:16, crop it into a circle, rotate and flip it, or make it square without cropping by adding margins. Crop one image by hand, or up to 50 at once from the middle and download them as a ZIP. It’s free, there’s no sign-up, and the images are cropped in your browser: they never leave your device.
- Free
- Runs in your browser, nothing uploaded
- No sign-up
- No ads
Your image stays on your device: it is processed in your browser and never uploaded.
How to crop an image in 3 steps
- 1
Open your image
Drop it on the editor, click to choose a file, or paste it with Ctrl+V (⌘+V on a Mac). JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF (first frame), BMP and iPhone HEIC photos open in any browser. Drop several files to crop up to 50 at once.
- 2
Choose the part to keep
Pick an Aspect ratio (Free, 1:1, 4:5, 3:4, 2:3, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9 or 9:16), then drag the box or its corners. Circle makes a round crop; Rotate left, Rotate right and the flip buttons sit next to it.
- 3
Check it and download
The new pixel size shows under the preview. Hold to see the original to compare, then press Download or Copy.
What the image cropper does
Updated 2026-11-03
- Aspect ratios
- Free, or locked to 1:1, 4:5, 3:4, 2:3, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9 or 9:16. Drag the box or its corners; Reset crop starts over.
- Circle crop
- A round crop that is transparent outside the circle. Turning it on sets the ratio to 1:1 and switches a JPG to PNG; if you save it as JPG anyway, the corners get a fill color.
- Square without cropping
- Make it square without cropping fits the whole image into 1:1, 4:5, 3:4, 16:9 or 9:16 by adding margins: white, light gray, black, light blue, beige or any color from the picker.
- Several images
- Up to 50 at once, each cropped from the middle to the same ratio, a circle, or a square with margins. There’s no crop box per image in this mode. Download each one, or all as one ZIP.
- Rotate and flip
- Rotate 90° left or right, flip horizontally or vertically. Photos are opened upright, following the camera’s rotation flag.
- Quality
- A crop keeps the pixels inside the box as they are; nothing is scaled unless you also resize. Saving as JPG or WebP re-encodes the image (lossy, 85% by default); PNG keeps every pixel.
- Undo and history
- Every change is a step in the History list. Undo with Ctrl+Z (⌘+Z), redo with Ctrl+Shift+Z, or click any step. Each step is redrawn from the original, so going back and forth never lowers quality.
- Largest image and data
- About 16.7 megapixels on iPhone and iPad (Safari), 50 megapixels elsewhere; bigger images are opened smaller, with a note. Camera data and GPS location (EXIF) are removed from the saved file.
- Nothing is uploaded: how to check
- Open your browser’s developer tools, go to the Network tab and crop an image: no upload request is sent. The site still counts page views; those never include your image.
Image sizes and ratios by platform
Each row quotes the platform’s own help page, linked and dated, and the sizes under Platform sizes on the Resize tab come from these rows.
| Platform | Size | File size | Formats | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EtsyListing photos | short side ≥ 2000 px2000 px is the recommended minimum (first photo at least 635 px). Transparent parts show black; files over 1 MB may not finish uploading. | up to 1 MB | JPG, GIF, PNG, SVG, HEIC | Official pagechecked November 3, 2026 |
| AmazonProduct images | long side ≥ 500 px, long side ≤ 10000 px500–10,000 px on the longest side; over 1,000 px on each side allows zoom. White background (RGB 255, 255, 255) "in most cases". | — | JPG, TIFF, PNG, GIF | Official pagechecked November 3, 2026 |
| InstagramFeed photo | 1.91:1–3:4Widths of 320–1080 px are kept; wider photos are scaled down to 1080 px. Other ratios are cropped to fit. | — | — | Official pagechecked November 3, 2026 |
| YouTubeVideo thumbnail | 3840 × 2160 px · 16:9Minimum width 640 px. 2 MB when uploading from a phone, 50 MB from a computer. Shorts: 2160 × 3840 (9:16). | up to 2 MB | JPG, PNG | Official pagechecked November 3, 2026 |
| eBayListing photos | 1600 × 1600 pxMinimum 500 × 500 px. Up to 24 photos; white backgrounds generally work best. | up to 12 MB | JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, WebP, HEIC, AVIF | Official pagechecked November 3, 2026 |
| ShopifyProduct images | 2048 × 2048 px2048 × 2048 usually displays best for squares. Up to 5000 × 5000 px (25 MP); the developer docs say 4472 × 4472 (20 MP). | up to 20 MB | PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, GIF, SVG, HEIC, WebP | Official pagechecked November 3, 2026 |
| LinkedInProfile background photo | 1584 × 396 px · 4:1 | up to 8 MB | JPG, PNG | Official pagechecked November 3, 2026 |
| LinkedInProfile photo | short side ≥ 400 px, long side ≤ 7680 pxBetween 400 × 400 and 7680 × 4320 px. "We don't support GIFs." | up to 8 MB | PNG, JPG | Official pagechecked November 3, 2026 |
| FacebookPage cover photo | 851 × 315 pxLoads fastest as an sRGB JPG under 100 KB (not a hard limit). At least 400 × 150 px. | up to 100 KB | — | Official pagechecked November 3, 2026 |
| FacebookPage profile picture | 320 × 320 pxShown at 176 × 176 on computers and 196 × 196 on phones. | — | — | Official pagechecked November 3, 2026 |
| EtsyBig shop banner | 1600 × 400 pxAt least 1200 × 300 px. Shop logo 500 × 500, profile photo 400 × 400. | — | — | Official pagechecked November 3, 2026 |
Aspect ratios for Instagram, YouTube and other platforms
The ratio buttons cover the shapes most sites use:
- 1:1 for square posts, profile pictures and many marketplace thumbnails.
- 4:5 and 3:4 for portrait posts. Instagram’s help page says ratios from 1.91:1 to 3:4 are shown without cropping, so both fit.
- 16:9 for YouTube thumbnails (3840 × 2160 in YouTube’s help) and widescreen slides; 9:16 for full-screen phone formats, such as YouTube Shorts thumbnails (2160 × 3840).
- 2:3, 3:2 and 4:3 for prints and camera photos.
Banners have their own shapes, such as a LinkedIn background photo (1584 × 396) or an Etsy shop banner (1600 × 400). For those, open the Resize tab, choose the platform under Platform sizes and pick Fill, crop the edges: the middle of the image is cropped to the shape and sized in one go. The table on this page lists each size with its source.
Crop an image into a circle
For a round profile picture, click Circle. The crop becomes a 1:1 circle and everything outside it is transparent, so it sits cleanly on any background. Turning on Circle switches a JPG to PNG, because only PNG and WebP keep the corners transparent; if you save it as JPG anyway, the corners get the fill color from the Convert tab.
Drag the circle to center the face, leave a little space above the head, and check the result with Hold to see the original.
Make an image square without cropping
Cropping a wide photo to a square cuts off its sides. If you need all of it, for a marketplace tile or an Instagram post, add margins instead: under Make it square without cropping, click 1:1, 4:5, 3:4, 16:9 or 9:16. The whole image is fitted in, and the rest is filled with a color: white, light gray, black, light blue, beige or any color from the picker. White suits product photos on white listings; a soft color that matches the photo looks calmer on social posts.
On the Resize tab, the same idea is called Fit, add margins: it fits the image into a platform size, such as 2000 × 2000 for Etsy, without cutting anything. More on sizes on Resize Image.
Crop many images at once
Drop or choose up to 50 images together, for example a set of product photos for square marketplace tiles or round profile pictures for a team page. On the Crop tab, one setting covers them all:
- An aspect ratio, such as 1:1, 4:5 or 16:9. Each image is cropped from the middle.
- Circle, a round crop from the middle with transparent corners. Saved as PNG unless you pick another format.
- Make it square without cropping, which adds margins in one color to every image instead of cutting anything.
Press Apply to all, check the new sizes in the list, and download each image or all of them as one ZIP. Batch mode has no crop box, rotate or flip per image, and no undo history; for a photo whose subject is off-center, crop it on its own instead.
Crop or resize?
Cropping cuts away the edges and keeps the pixels inside the box as they are. Resizing scales the whole picture to more or fewer pixels and keeps everything in it. To get an exact size such as 1080 × 1080, do both: crop to 1:1 here, then set the width on the Resize tab.
To take the background away instead of the edges, use Remove Background, a paid tool priced per image. Made the picture on zzo.ai, for example with the AI product photo generator (pay per generation, no subscription)? Press Resize or compress (free) under the result to open it here, then switch to the Crop tab. If the file is still too big to upload after cropping, use Compress Image.
When a result goes wrong
The usual problems, why they happen and what to change.
The circle has white or colored corners
Why: It was saved as JPG, which can’t store transparency, so the corners were filled with a color.
Fix: Choose PNG or WebP on the Convert tab to keep the corners transparent.
Something important was cut off
Why: The ratio you chose has a different shape from the photo, so part of it has to go.
Fix: Move the box to keep what matters, pick another ratio, or use Make it square without cropping to add margins instead. Click an earlier step under History to go back.
The photo is sideways or upside down
Why: Phones store which way the camera was held as a flag. The editor follows it, but the flag can be wrong, for example when the phone was lying flat.
Fix: Press Rotate left or Rotate right until it’s upright.
The crop looks soft when shown large
Why: A small crop from a big photo has few pixels left. Enlarging it later can’t add detail.
Fix: Crop less tightly, or start from the largest original you have.
In a batch, one photo lost the part that mattered
Why: Batch mode crops every image from the middle. A subject near the edge of the frame gets cut.
Fix: Remove that image from the list and open it on its own to place the crop box by hand, or use Make it square without cropping for the whole batch.
Questions
Updated 2026-11-03
How do I crop a picture to a square?
Click 1:1 under Aspect ratio, drag the box over the part you want to keep, and download. To keep the whole picture instead, use Make it square without cropping.
How do I make a picture square without cropping?
On the Crop tab, under Make it square without cropping, click 1:1. The whole image is fitted into a square and the empty space filled with a margin color: white, light gray, black, light blue, beige or any color. The same works for 4:5, 3:4, 16:9 and 9:16.
How do I crop a photo for Instagram?
Click 1:1 for a square post or 4:5 for a portrait one. Instagram’s own help page says ratios between 1.91:1 and 3:4 are shown without cropping and that photos wider than 1080 px are scaled down to 1080 px; the table on this page links it.
How do I crop to 16:9 for a YouTube thumbnail?
Click 16:9, place the box, then on the Resize tab choose the YouTube preset under Platform sizes: it sizes the image to 3840 × 2160 and keeps the file under the 2 MB that YouTube allows from a phone.
Can I crop a picture into a circle?
Yes. Click Circle: the crop becomes a 1:1 circle and everything outside it is transparent. Save it as PNG or WebP to keep the corners transparent; as JPG they get a fill color.
Can I crop to an exact pixel size, like 1080 × 1080?
Crop to the ratio first (1:1 for 1080 × 1080), then type the width on the Resize tab with the aspect ratio locked. For a platform size, choose it under Platform sizes and pick Fill, crop the edges.
Does cropping reduce quality?
The pixels you keep stay as they are; a crop doesn’t rescale them. Saving as JPG or WebP re-encodes the image, which is lossy but usually hard to see at the default 85%. PNG keeps every pixel.
How do I rotate or flip an image?
On the Crop tab, press Rotate left or Rotate right to turn it 90°, or Flip horizontally or Flip vertically to mirror it. Each is a step in the History list, so you can undo it.
Why is my photo sideways?
Phones save the camera’s direction as a flag in the file. The editor uses it to show photos upright, but when the flag is wrong the photo stays sideways; press Rotate left or Rotate right.
Is the image cropper free? Are my photos uploaded?
It’s free, with no sign-up, no watermark, no ads and no daily limit. Nothing is uploaded: the photo is cropped in your browser. To check, watch the Network tab in the developer tools while you crop.
Does it work on iPhone and Android?
Yes, in the browser, with nothing to install. iPhone and iPad (Safari) can edit images up to about 16.7 megapixels; bigger ones are opened smaller, with a note. iPhone HEIC photos open in every browser and are saved as JPG, PNG or WebP.
Can I undo a crop?
Yes. Press Ctrl+Z (⌘+Z), click any earlier step under History, or press Reset crop. Every step is redrawn from the original, so nothing is lost by going back.
Can I crop several images at once?
Yes, up to 50. Drop or choose them together, pick an Aspect ratio, Circle or a ratio under Make it square without cropping, and press Apply to all. Every image is cropped from the middle; to place the box yourself, or to rotate or flip, open that image on its own. Download them one by one, or all as one ZIP.
How do I crop many photos to a square at once?
Open them together, click 1:1 under Aspect ratio, and press Apply to all: each photo is cropped to a square from the middle. To keep every photo whole instead, click 1:1 under Make it square without cropping and pick a margin color. Add a platform size on the Resize tab to get the same pixel size for all of them.
Can I crop a passport or ID photo here?
You can crop any photo, but this tool doesn’t make a photo meet passport, visa or ID rules. Many government photo rules don’t accept photos changed with software, so check the official rules for your document first.