Crop and resize, on the image itself
Crop to keep exactly the part you want, in any shape. Resize to any width and height by dragging the image or typing pixels. Both work on one photo or a whole batch, in your browser, without uploading anything.
Two different jobs
Crop or resize?
They answer different questions: what’s in the picture, and how many pixels it has. Many jobs need both.
| You want to | Use | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Remove a distracting edge or zoom in on a subject | Crop | The rest is cut away; what stays keeps its full resolution |
| Change the shape, such as square for a profile picture | Crop with a shape | The largest part of that shape is kept, and you move it where you like |
| Make a photo smaller for a website or email | Resize | Everything stays, at fewer pixels and a smaller file |
| Hit an exact size such as 1080 × 1350 | Resize with a preset | The picture is cropped to the size’s shape, then scaled to it |
| Keep the whole photo at a size of another shape | Resize, then Add bars | The photo fits inside, with bars in the colour you pick |
Crop
Choose exactly what stays
Tap Crop above the image. The whole photo appears with a frame over it and everything outside the frame dimmed. Drag inside the frame to move it, and its corners or edges to resize it. The size of the part you keep is shown in pixels as you go, and the settings update as you drag.
Under the image, pick a shape: Free for any shape, Original for the photo’s own, Square, 4:5, 9:16, 16:9, 3:2 or 4:3. With a shape, the frame keeps it while you resize it from a corner. Reset brings back the whole image and Done shows the result. With a keyboard, the arrow keys move the frame, plus and minus resize it, and Enter or Escape finishes.
For a batch, turn on Crop in the settings, pick a shape and choose which part of each image stays: the middle, an edge or a corner. Open any image in the list to crop it exactly; it keeps its own crop while the others follow the batch. The crop tool opens an image you add on its own straight in the crop frame.
Resize
Any size, set the way that suits you
Turn on Resize and the image keeps its size until you change it. Drag a corner on the image to scale it, or an edge to change only its width or height. Or use the Scale slider, type a width and height in pixels, or pick a common size: 4K, QHD, Full HD, HD, Square, Instagram (1080 × 1350), Story (1080 × 1920) or Facebook (1200 × 630). 100% under the slider goes back to the full size in one tap.
Proportions are kept while the lock between the fields is closed. Open it, or pick a common size, and the width and height are exact. When the picture has another shape than that size, How to fit offers three ways to meet it:
| How to fit | Result | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Crop | Cropped to the size’s shape, from the middle unless you move the frame | Social posts, thumbnails, anything that must be filled |
| Add bars | The whole picture, with bars in white, black, any colour or transparent | Product photos and artwork where nothing may be cut |
| Stretch | The whole picture, squeezed to the size | Textures and backgrounds, where distortion doesn’t show |
The choice stays as you try other sizes, and with Crop the crop follows the size’s shape, so nothing is ever stretched you didn’t ask to be. Dragging a corner of the image scales it as it is. Enlarging goes up to 4× and 8K (33 MP). Images in a batch that are already smaller than the size stay as they are unless you turn on Enlarge smaller images.
Batches
Up to 250 images, each the way it should be
Set a crop and a size once and every image in the batch follows them. Open an image in the list to give it a crop or size of its own: the list marks it, and the settings note it with Use for all to share it with the rest, or Clear to bring it back in line.
Cropped one photo, then added more? It keeps its own crop, and the new ones start from the batch’s settings. Download the results one by one or as a ZIP that keeps the original file names. Read how bulk compression works for the rest of the batch workflow.
FAQ
Questions about cropping and resizing
What is the difference between cropping and resizing?
Cropping cuts away part of the picture and can change its shape; what stays keeps its full resolution. Resizing scales the whole picture to more or fewer pixels and keeps everything in it. Crop to choose what’s in the picture, resize to choose how big it is.
Which happens first?
The crop. Resize then scales the cropped picture, so its width, height and scale always describe what you’ll download. Change the crop later and a size that keeps proportions keeps its scale, so the part you kept stays as large as it was.
Do they cost quality?
Cropping removes pixels but never resamples the rest. Resizing resamples once, from the original, with a high-quality filter, and the image is encoded once at the quality you choose. Crop and resize together still mean a single resample and a single save.
Can I make an image larger?
Yes, up to 4× its size and 8K (33 megapixels). Enlarging adds pixels but no detail, so Graviton notes when a picture is enlarged more than 1.5×, and a batch leaves smaller images as they are unless you turn on Enlarge smaller images.
Does an HDR photo stay HDR?
Yes, when it’s saved as JPG or AVIF with Keep HDR on: the brightness data is cropped and scaled with the picture. Bars are the exception, so a photo inside bars is saved in standard range.
Do crop and resize cost downloads?
No. Cropping, resizing and compressing are free, unlimited and need no account. Downloading needs a free account, with 3 downloads a day on Free and no limit on Pro.
Tools for this
Each one opens the compressor with these settings ready.
Crop and resize your own photos
Try it free, no account needed. Downloading takes a free account: 3 a day, no card.