Crop an image to a hand-picked area

Cropping with a manual selection

Cropping a photo or a screenshot to cut out what's spilling over the edges is a common task, and your phone already handles it in a couple of taps — open the gallery, drag the corners, save. For a single image, that's still the fastest way to do it, and there's no reason to complicate things. This tool isn't trying to compete there — it exists for two specific situations where a phone stops being practical.

The first is cropping on a computer, without relying on a phone app or transferring the file over. The second, and more important one, is batch work: when several images need the exact same crop, repeating the same adjustment by hand, one at a time, is tedious and error-prone. That's the case where setting up the selection once actually pays off.

The selection is always manual

Unlike tools that try to guess what to crop — cropping around a detected face, for example — here the crop area is always set by whoever is using it: dragging the whole selection to reposition it, or one of the eight handles (four corners, four edges) to resize it. The area that would be left out is shown darkened, to make clear what will be kept before anything is generated, and the current selection's pixel dimensions stay visible the whole time, along with the matching ratio.

If you already know the exact measurements you want, there's no need to drag anything: width, height, and position (X and Y) fields accept numbers directly, synced in both directions with the visual selection — changing a number moves or resizes the area in the preview, and vice versa. The selection can also be adjusted from the keyboard: with it focused, the arrow keys move it, and Shift plus the arrow keys resizes it, keeping any locked ratio in place.

Free or locked aspect ratio

By default the selection is free, with no ratio restriction. There are shortcuts for the most common ratios — square (1:1), social media portrait (4:5), traditional portrait (3:4), widescreen landscape (16:9), and vertical video (9:16) — plus a field for any custom ratio, like "5:2". With a ratio locked, resizing from any handle automatically respects that lock instead of letting the selection take any shape. One button centers the current selection on the image, and another resets it to the whole image (respecting the locked ratio, if there is one).

Cropping several images with the same selection

When you upload more than one file, the tool stores the selection made on the first image as a percentage of its dimensions — not fixed pixels — and applies that same percentage to every image in the batch when generating the result. That matters because images in the same batch rarely share the exact same size: if the selection were stored in pixels, the crop would land shifted or wrong on any image whose dimensions differ from the first one. In percentage terms, a selection covering the center third of the first image covers the center third of every other one too, proportionally.

To check that this is producing the expected result before processing the whole batch, the tool shows a preview of the crop already applied to the first and last image in the queue — usually the most different from each other in a mixed batch, so they work as a quick test of both extremes.

Output and format

The result can come out as JPG, PNG, or WebP, with a quality control on the first two formats that support it (PNG is always lossless, so it has no such control). Each cropped image's final dimensions are shown with the result. A single image produces a direct download; more than one produces individual downloads plus the option to download all of them together as a ZIP.

What this tool doesn't do

It doesn't upscale an image or improve the quality of what's already there — cropping reduces the image's area, it never adds detail. It doesn't remove objects or people from the scene: whatever falls inside the selection is exactly what was there. And it doesn't detect a face, a main subject, or any other content to choose the crop area on its own — the selection is always made by whoever is using the tool, never automatic.