Image Cropper
Crop, rotate and flip an image, with fixed ratios and keyboard control.
Cropping happens in your browser. The image is never uploaded, and the output carries no metadata from the original.
Cropping is the most common thing anyone does to an image and one of the most annoying to do well. Somewhere between a photo and where it has to go there is a required shape — a square avatar, a 16:9 banner, a passport photo with a specific ratio — and the picture is not that shape yet.
More about Image Cropper
This cropper gives you a selection you can drag, move and resize by its handles, with fixed ratios for the shapes people actually need and numeric inputs for when a steady hand is not the point. It also rotates in quarter turns and flips in both directions, which covers the other half of what people arrive wanting.
It is fully operable from the keyboard, which most croppers are not. Focus the selection and the arrow keys move it a pixel at a time, hold alt and they move ten, hold shift and they resize it instead. That matters for anyone who cannot use a pointer precisely, and it is also simply the fastest way to nudge a crop into place.
The selection is measured in the image's own pixels rather than in the pixels of the preview on screen. Those are different numbers whenever a large photo is scaled to fit, and the gap between them is where cropping tools go wrong: a crop that looks right in the preview comes out shifted or scaled in the file. The conversion happens in one place here and the numeric readout always shows the real coordinates.
Orientation is respected. A photo taken on a phone stores its rotation as a tag rather than in the pixels, so a cropper that ignores that tag crops the wrong region of a portrait photo. The image is oriented before you ever see it, and the crop applies to what you saw.
- Drag to select, drag to move, resize from any of eight handles
- Fixed ratios for 1:1, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9 and 9:16, plus freeform
- Numeric position and size inputs for an exact crop
- Rotate in quarter turns and flip horizontally or vertically
- Fully operable from the keyboard, with coarse and fine steps
- Coordinates in the image's real pixels, not the preview's
- Phone photo orientation applied before the crop, not after
- Output format and quality chosen at the point of download
How to use it
- 1Drop in an image, or choose one from your device.
- 2Pick a ratio if you need a specific shape, or leave it freeform.
- 3Drag the selection, or type exact numbers into the position and size fields.
- 4Rotate or flip if the picture needs it.
- 5Press Crop, then download the result.
Questions
Can I use this without a mouse?
Yes: tab to the selection, then arrow keys move it and shift with arrows resizes it, holding alt for ten-pixel steps. The numeric fields accept exact values for anything the keys are too slow for.
Why does the selection snap when I lock a ratio?
Because the shape is fixed, so one side has to give when the other changes. It always shrinks rather than growing, which keeps the selection inside the image instead of clipping at an edge.
Does cropping reduce quality?
Cropping itself does not — it discards pixels outside the selection and keeps the rest. Saving as JPEG or WebP re-encodes what remains, so choose PNG if you need the crop to be pixel-exact.
Why is my phone photo the right way up here but sideways elsewhere?
Phones record rotation as a metadata tag rather than rotating the pixels, and some software ignores the tag. This tool applies it before you see the image and bakes it into the output, so the result is upright everywhere.
What size will the cropped image be?
The selection's size in the original's pixels, shown live under the options as you adjust it. A very large photo is bounded first so it cannot exhaust memory, which can make the output slightly smaller than the numbers suggest.