Crop images to an exact size

Updated 28 September 2026

Type the width and height you want to keep, in pixels, and the crop is cut from the middle of the image unless you place it yourself. It runs in your browser, free, on one picture or a whole folder, and nothing is uploaded to our servers.

Use it to tighten the framing, lose a distraction at the edge, or meet a size a platform expects: 1200 by 630 for a link preview, say, or a 1080 square for a social post.

How to crop images to a set size

1. Drag an image, or a folder of images, onto the drop zone.
2. Enter how wide and how tall the kept area should be (the default is 1080 by 1080).
3. Keep center crop, or turn it off and type a left offset and a top offset.
4. Click Crop, then save the result or a ZIP holding every file.

Center crop or your own position

Center crop is on by default, and it suits most jobs. The box sits in the middle of the picture: a square from the heart of a landscape shot, or a wide banner strip across the center.

Switch it off when the subject is off to one side. The left offset says how many pixels in from the left edge the box starts, and the top offset does the same from the top. Picture a photo 4000 pixels wide and 3000 tall with a 3000 by 3000 box. Offsets of 0 keep the left square, a left offset of 500 keeps the middle one (the same as center crop), and 1000 keeps the square at the right.

To crop to a ratio, work the height out from the width. For 16:9 across a photo 4000 pixels wide, divide 4000 by 16 to get 250, then multiply by 9: the box is 4000 by 2250.

What happens to sharpness

The pixels inside the box are not touched, so the crop is exactly as sharp as the original. There are fewer of them, so a tight crop around a small detail looks soft once it is displayed big. PNG stays lossless, while JPG and WebP get re-saved at high quality.

If a photo was saved sideways with a rotation tag, we stand it upright before cutting, so the box lands where you expect.

When the box is bigger than the image

A crop cannot reach past the edges. If the box is larger than the picture, you get only the part where the two overlap, so the result comes out smaller than the numbers you typed. When you need the full size, resize the image up first.

Cropping a folder the same way

Cropping runs on your own device, so there is no batch cap and no daily allowance. Drop the whole folder, give it one box, and download every result separately or as one ZIP. Speed depends on your computer or phone, and each image can be up to 50 MB.

For social media, the pipeline builder has a Social preset that cuts a centered 1080 square from every photo and saves it as JPG. Pipelines are free to try on up to 3 files, and Pro runs them on up to 500.