Crop Image

Trim a photo to the part you want, freehand or locked to a ratio like 1:1 or 16:9.

This tool runs entirely in your browser. Your data is never uploaded, never stored, and never leaves your device.

This trims a picture down to the part you want to keep — drag a box over the image or type exact pixel coordinates, optionally locked to a ratio like 1:1 for a profile picture or 9:16 for a story.

How to use it

1Open an image; a selection opens covering most of it.
2Drag on the picture to choose the area, or type Left, Top, Width and Height for an exact crop.
3Lock an aspect ratio if the result has to be a particular shape.
4Choose PNG, JPG or WebP and download — or send the crop straight to the compressor.

Example

Input: A 4000 × 3000 photo, 1:1 locked, dragged around a face
Output: A square PNG at the dragged size, cropped from the full-resolution original rather than the preview

The preview is scaled to fit the page; the crop is always taken from the original pixels, so nothing is softened.

What happens to your data

This tool runs entirely in your browser. Your input is never uploaded to a server, never stored, and never logged. The picture is decoded into a canvas in this tab and read back from it — no upload is involved.

Last updated August 2026

Cropping is the most common edit anyone makes to a photograph, and the one most likely to send someone to a website: the phone's own editor is fine until you need a precise 1:1 for an avatar, or exact pixel dimensions for a form that rejects anything else.

This gives you both. Drag a box over the picture to crop by eye, or type Left, Top, Width and Height for a crop you can reproduce exactly. Lock the shape to a ratio — square for a profile picture, 9:16 for a story, 16:9 for a slide — and the selection stays in proportion however you drag it.

It is worth being clear about how cropping differs from resizing, because forms and upload dialogs often ask for something that needs both. Cropping changes what is in the frame and removes pixels from the edges; resizing keeps the whole frame and changes how many pixels describe it. A form demanding a 400 by 400 avatar from a rectangular photo needs a square cut first and then a scale to 400 — cropping alone will not hit the number, and resizing alone will squash the picture.

How it works

Toolvore decodes your picture into a canvas inside this tab and reads the selected region back out of it. The preview is scaled down to fit the page, but the crop is always taken from the original pixels — so a square cut from a 4000-pixel photo is as sharp as the photo was, not a blow-up of a 560-pixel preview. Pointer positions are converted through the canvas's own bounding box, so the selection stays under your finger at every screen width. Precision is not limited by what you can see. Because the region is read from the original pixels, a crop typed as exact numbers is exact regardless of how small the preview is on your screen, and the only rounding is to whole pixels, since a fraction of a pixel does not exist. That is also why a crop from a large photo stays sharp: what you get is a piece of the original rather than an enlargement of the preview.

Common use cases

Cutting a square profile picture out of a photograph that is not square
Trimming a screenshot down to the part that matters before sending it
Cropping to 9:16 or 16:9 for a story, a reel, or a slide
Meeting an exact pixel requirement on a form that rejects other sizes
Removing a distracting edge, a stray finger, or an identifying detail from a photo

Frequently asked questions

Does cropping reduce the quality of my photo?＋

The crop itself takes the original pixels, so nothing is softened. Saving as PNG keeps them exactly; JPG and WebP re-encode, which is why the quality slider appears for those two.

Can I crop to an exact pixel size?＋

Yes. Type the Width and Height directly rather than dragging, and set Left and Top to position the region. The numbers are in original-image pixels.

What is the aspect ratio lock for?＋

It keeps the selection in a fixed proportion — 1:1 for avatars, 16:9 for slides, 9:16 for vertical video — so you cannot accidentally hand over a nearly-square image where a square was required.

Which format should I save as?＋

PNG for screenshots, logos and anything with sharp edges or transparency. JPG for photographs where a smaller file matters. WebP is usually smallest and is supported by every current browser.

Is my photo uploaded anywhere?＋

No. It is decoded and cropped in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server, which is worth knowing if the reason you are cropping is to remove something private from the frame.

What shape does a profile picture need to be?＋

Square, on essentially every platform, even where it is displayed as a circle — the circle is a mask drawn over a square image. Crop to 1:1 and keep the subject away from the corners, since those are the parts the mask hides. Anything from about 400 by 400 upward is enough for a profile; larger is fine and will be scaled down for you.

Why does my picture get re-cropped after I upload it?＋

Because the destination has its own frame to fill. A site that shows a 16:9 banner will cut a square image down to 16:9 itself, usually from the centre and usually without asking. The fix is to crop to the shape the destination uses before uploading, so the decision about what is lost is yours rather than an algorithm working from the middle outward.

If I crop something out, is it really gone?＋

From this image, yes — the pixels outside the region are not written to the file that comes back. Two things still deserve care. The original on your device is untouched, so the uncropped version is still wherever you left it. And a crop taken from a photograph that was already shared somewhere does nothing about the copy that was shared.

Does cropping change the file size?＋

Yes, and usually by more than people expect, because you are removing pixels rather than compressing them. Cutting a photograph in half removes about half its data before any encoding decision is made. That makes cropping the cheapest way to get under an upload limit when the edges of the picture were not doing any work.

Does cropping strip the photo's location and camera data?＋

In practice yes, as a side effect of how it works. The picture is decoded into a canvas and encoded again from the pixels, and that path carries no room for the original metadata block — so capture date, camera model and any GPS coordinates are not written into the file that comes back. That is usually welcome when a photo is about to be shared. Where you want the metadata kept, keep the original alongside the crop.