Free crop or fixed ratios: 16:9, Instagram, YouTube, passport, A4. Rotate, flip, zoom.
Crop and reframe images freely or to a fixed ratio, with presets for social media, passport photos, A4 and more. Rotate, flip and zoom before you export, with full undo and redo.
If you are preparing an image for a specification that names exact dimensions, cropping is the step that has to happen before resizing. Resizing a 4:3 photo directly to 200 × 230 squeezes it horizontally — subtly, but enough that faces look wrong. Cropping to the target ratio first means the resize is a pure scale with no distortion.
Cropping is also the cheapest way to reduce file size, because you are removing pixels rather than degrading them, and it usually improves the composition at the same time.
Alongside free cropping there are thirteen presets covering the common cases, plus a custom ratio field:
| Preset | Ratio | Typical use |
|---|---|---|
| Square | 1:1 | Instagram posts, profile pictures |
| Widescreen | 16:9 | YouTube thumbnails, presentations |
| Vertical | 9:16 | Stories, Reels, Shorts |
| Classic photo | 4:3 / 3:2 | Standard camera output |
| Passport | 35:45 | Most international passport photos |
| A4 | 210:297 | Document pages |
When you photograph a certificate or marksheet, crop tightly to the page edges before doing anything else. Everything outside the document is wasted file size and makes the scan look careless. Straighten any tilt at the same time — even two degrees is noticeable.
Free crop plus thirteen presets including 1:1, 16:9, 9:16, 4:3, 3:2, Instagram, YouTube thumbnail, passport and A4 — and a custom ratio field for anything else.
Yes. Rotate or flip first and the crop applies to the adjusted image, so you can straighten a tilted document scan and trim it in one pass.
Yes, with full undo and redo covering rotation, flips, zoom and ratio changes.
Yes, proportionally to the pixels removed — and unlike compression it costs nothing in quality, because the pixels you keep are untouched.
Crop first, always. Cropping sets the aspect ratio; resizing then scales to the exact dimensions without distortion. Doing it the other way round means resizing to a ratio you are about to change.
The cropper works on one image at a time, because framing is a per-image judgement. For applying identical dimensions across a batch, use the Image Resizer.