Crop an image
Drag a box over the part you want to keep and download the result. Cropping never degrades the pixels it keeps — it only discards the ones outside the box — and everything happens on your own device.
Free-form or locked to a ratio, on one image or a whole folder. You can rotate, resize and change format in the same pass, because it is all one operation rather than four visits to four different pages.
Drop your image here
JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, HEIC and more. Drop a folder to crop a whole set the same way.
or drop a folder here, or paste an image with Ctrl + V
Nothing is uploaded. The image is decoded and cropped by this page, on your own processor.
Cropping does not cost quality. Saving might
This is the part most pages on the subject get wrong. Cropping is subtraction: the pixels inside the box are carried over exactly as they were, and the ones outside are thrown away. There is no resampling, no interpolation and no loss.
What can lose quality is what happens next. Saving as JPEG re-encodes the image, and a low quality setting will soften it — not because it was cropped, but because it was saved. Keeping the quality high avoids it, and saving as PNG avoids it entirely at the cost of a much larger file.
Crop before you resize, not after
The order matters more than it looks. Resizing first and cropping second means you spent your pixel budget on parts of the picture you were about to discard, and the region you actually wanted ends up smaller than it needed to be.
Crop first and the remaining pixels are all in the part you kept. This page does both in one pass and in the right order, so it is not something you have to think about — the crop is applied to the decoded image, and the resize is measured against what survived it.
Common ratios, and what they are for
| Ratio | Shape | Where it is expected |
|---|---|---|
| 1:1 | Square | Profile pictures, app icons, Instagram posts |
| 4:5 | Tall | Instagram portrait — the largest feed size on a phone |
| 16:9 | Wide | YouTube thumbnails, presentation slides, video |
| 3:2 | Slightly wide | What most cameras shoot, and standard print sizes |
| 2:3 | Portrait | Pinterest, book covers, posters |
| 21:9 | Very wide | Banners and website headers |
If the destination has a named size rather than a ratio — a LinkedIn banner, a passport photograph — the size presets carry the exact dimensions and the reason behind each one, and crop to them for you.
Why crop it yourself rather than let the site do it
Upload a photograph to something that wants a square and it will usually take the middle. Faces are rarely in the middle, and the automatic result is often somebody's forehead. Choosing the box yourself takes seconds and is the difference between a profile picture and a cautionary tale.
It also means the full-resolution original never leaves your device — you upload the crop rather than the photograph and everything else that was in the frame.
Questions
How do I crop an image without losing quality?
Cropping itself never costs quality — it discards pixels outside the box and leaves the ones inside untouched. What can cost quality is the re-encoding afterwards, so keep the quality high, or save as PNG for a lossless result. This page defaults to a quality that is visually indistinguishable from the original.
Can I crop to an exact size or ratio?
Yes. Lock the box to a ratio — 1:1 for a profile picture, 16:9 for a video thumbnail — and drag it where you want. If you need an exact pixel size rather than a shape, crop to the right ratio here and set the width, or use a size preset which does both in one pass.
Can I crop several images at once?
Yes, and the same box is applied to all of them. That is what you want for a set of photographs shot the same way, and not what you want for a mixed batch — the crop is positioned against the first image, so check that it makes sense for the rest before saving.
Does cropping remove the metadata?
By default yes, along with any GPS coordinates. If you want the capture date and camera kept, tick Keep the date, camera and settings in the options — the EXIF is carried across with the dimensions corrected to the cropped size.
How do I crop a photo into a square?
Lock the ratio to 1:1 and drag the box over the part you want. A square crop is what nearly every profile picture and app icon needs, and cropping to it yourself is better than letting a site crop it for you — those usually take the centre, which is rarely where the face is.
Is my photo uploaded?
No. It is decoded, cropped and re-encoded by this page on your own device. Nothing is sent anywhere, which matters because the pictures people crop are family photographs, screenshots of private conversations, and documents.
What BriskFile will not do to you
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Your files never leave your device
Every conversion runs in your browser. Open DevTools, watch the Network tab, and you will see no upload — because there is not one.
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No account, no email, no watermark
Nothing to sign up for and nothing stamped on your images. There is no step between choosing a file and getting it back.
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No limits at the download button
No daily cap, no file counter, no "upgrade to download". If the tool starts a job, it finishes it.
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Checkable, not just claimed
Open the Network tab and convert something — nothing goes out. Or load the page, disconnect, and watch it keep working: the tool is already on your machine, and your file never leaves it.