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Circle Crop Image
Cut a photo into a circle for a profile picture
Crop Image
LiveDrag a box over the part of the picture you are keeping, or lock it to a shape a profile or a thumbnail asks for, and download just that. This one runs entirely in your browser: the picture is never uploaded, so there is no file size limit and nothing of yours is ever on our server.
Cropped in your browser. The picture never leaves this page. Privacy
What it does
- Drag freely, or lock to 1:1, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9 or 9:16
- Type exact pixel figures when a form demands them
- Nothing is uploaded, so there is no file size limit
Your files
It never leaves your device.
This one runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you type or drop here is sent to us, so there is nothing on our server to keep, and nothing to delete. It works offline once the page has loaded.
Frequently asked questions
Does cropping make my photo lose quality?
The cropping itself does not: the pixels inside the box are the ones you already had, and the rest are simply discarded. What can cost you something is saving, because a JPG has to be written out again, and that re-encoding is a second lossy pass over a picture that was already lossy. That is why there are three levels here, and why the default sits in the middle. If you want the crop to cost nothing at all, save it as PNG, which is lossless and correspondingly larger. A PNG cropped and saved as a PNG is pixel for pixel identical inside the box.
Is my picture uploaded to your server?
No. Your browser reads the file straight off your disk, draws the crop on a canvas, and hands you the result out of its own memory. The picture is never sent to us, which is why this page has no file size limit while our other image tools stop at 50 MB, and why there is no hour-long deletion window to wait out: there is nothing on our server to delete. The one thing that does leave the page is an anonymous counter, a request carrying the tool name and nothing else, so the usage number on this page stays honest. It contains no part of your image.
How do I crop an image to an exact size in pixels?
Type the figures into the width and height boxes. They count in the original picture's pixels, not in what your screen happens to be showing, so 1080 means 1080 in the file you download. With a shape locked, filling in one box works out the other for you. Bear in mind that cropping can only take pixels away: if you need 1080 x 1080 out of a picture only 900 across, crop it square here first and then set the size with Resize Image, which scales rather than cuts.
Can I crop an iPhone photo straight from my camera roll?
Only if it is a JPG. Recent iPhones save as HEIC by default, and no browser on any platform can decode HEIC, so there is nothing this page can do with one: it will tell you so rather than sit and spin. Run it through HEIC to JPG first and then crop the result. Photos your phone has already shared or exported are usually JPG and open here without any of that.
What happens to transparency, or to an animated GIF?
Transparency survives if you save as PNG or WebP. It cannot survive JPG, which has no way to store it, so anything see-through is filled with white rather than turning black, and the page says so when you pick JPG. An animated GIF loses its animation: a browser hands a canvas the first frame only, so what you get back is a still picture of that frame, saved as a PNG. If you need the animation kept, this is not the tool.
Is there a limit on how big a picture can be?
None that we impose, because nothing is uploaded: there is no upload to be too big for. The real ceiling is your browser's, on how large a picture it can hold in memory at once, and it is high. A 12 megapixel photo crops here in well under a second and a 48 megapixel one still works; the ceiling depends on the browser and on how much memory your device has free, so only something extreme, a stitched panorama or a full flatbed scan, is likely to reach it. Crossing that ceiling is silent in the browser itself, which simply hands back a blank picture, so this page checks first and refuses with an explanation instead of giving you an empty file.