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Crop an Image

Drag the corners of the bright rectangle over the part of the photo you want to keep. Everything under the dimmed area is cut away, the work happens on your own device, and the file that comes back is the same kind of image you started with.

JPG, PNG or WEBP

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How to crop an image

  1. Tap Choose a photo to crop and pick a JPG, PNG or WebP from your phone or computer.
  2. Drag the four corner handles until the bright rectangle holds only the part you want.
  3. Tap a shape — 1:1, 4:3, 16:9 — if a form or a platform has asked you for one.
  4. Tap Crop photo, check the thumbnail, then tap Save the file.

What the bright rectangle keeps

Everything inside the rectangle survives and everything under the dimmed surround is discarded. The four corner handles are drawn small so they do not cover the corner you are trying to see, but each one carries a 44-pixel target around it, which is what a thumb actually needs. Pinch-to-zoom still works everywhere else on the page: the gesture is only taken over the photo itself, never over the page, because a tool that switches zoom off to get its own dragging working has made itself unusable for anybody who needs to magnify text.

The rectangle is measured against the picture the way you are looking at it. A photo your phone stored sideways, with an orientation tag telling the viewer to turn it, is turned upright before the crop is applied — so the region you chose is the region you get. Ignoring that tag is the single most common way a crop tool goes wrong, and it is permanent, because re-encoding the file throws the tag away and there is nothing left to correct it with.

Cropping is the cheapest way to meet a size limit

Fewer pixels take fewer bytes at the same quality. If a portal is rejecting your photo for being over 50 KB, cropping tightly around the subject usually does more for the file size than turning the quality down does, and it does far less visible damage to a face. Crop first, then compress.

The result is re-encoded once, in the format you started with: a JPEG comes back a JPEG, a PNG comes back a PNG, and the new file is saved beside the old name with -cropped on the end. One useful side effect of that re-encode is that the camera metadata does not travel with it, so the location tag your phone wrote into the original is not in the copy you upload.

Questions

Does cropping make the file smaller?
Nearly always, and often by a lot, because you are throwing pixels away and fewer pixels need fewer bytes. A tight crop is usually the quickest route under a 50 KB or 100 KB upload cap, and it looks better than pushing quality down until the face goes blocky.
Will the part I keep lose any quality?
The pixels inside the rectangle are not resized, so nothing is stretched or softened. A JPEG is re-encoded once to write the new file, which costs a small and generally invisible amount; a PNG is lossless and stays that way.
Can I crop to an exact shape like 1:1 or 16:9?
Yes. Tap one of the shapes and the rectangle snaps to that ratio around its own centre, so you keep the part you had already framed. If you need an exact physical size instead, such as 3.5 by 4.5 centimetres for a form photograph, resize the image after you have cropped it.
Why does this page take only one photo at a time?
Because a crop rectangle is a decision about one picture. The interesting part of the second photo is rarely in the same place as the first, so one rectangle applied to thirty images mostly produces thirty bad crops.
Is the photo uploaded anywhere?
No. The crop runs in your browser on your own device, which is why the page keeps working with the connection switched off. Nothing is sent to a server and nothing is kept once you close the tab.

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