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How It Works

Add your image → Set the crop → Download

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Add your image
Drop a file, pick one from your device, or paste from the clipboard. Nothing is uploaded.
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Set the crop
Drag the handles, snap to a ratio preset, or type exact pixel values. Rotate, flip or switch to a circle crop.
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Download
Choose JPG, PNG or WebP, set the quality, and save the result straight from your browser.
Why PicEditLab

Why crop images at PicEditLab

Everything a cropper should do, without asking you to hand over the photo first

Your image never leaves your device
The crop runs on a canvas in your own browser. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored, and there is no file to delete afterwards.
Drag it or type it
Most croppers give you handles or number fields, not both. Here the crop box and the X / Y / width / height inputs stay in sync in both directions.
Ratio presets that match real placements
Square, portrait and landscape for social, plus 16:9, 4:3, 3:2, 21:9 and common print ratios — selected and the crop box snaps to it.
Circle crop with real transparency
Switch to circle mode and the result exports as a PNG with a genuine alpha channel, ready for an avatar or a logo — not a white square with a circle drawn on it.
Rotate and flip in the same pass
Straighten a sideways phone photo or mirror it before you crop, so you do not need a second tool and a second re-encode.
No queue, no waiting
There is no upload step and no server round trip, so the preview updates as you drag and the download is ready the moment you click.
FAQ

Frequently asked questions about cropping images

How do I crop an image online for free?
Add your image, drag the crop box to the area you want to keep, then click Download. There is no account, no watermark and no limit on how many images you crop.
Are my photos uploaded to a server?
No. This tool draws your image onto a canvas inside your own browser and crops it there. The file is never sent to us, which is why it also works with no network connection after the page has loaded.
How do I crop an image to an exact size in pixels?
Type the values into the Width and Height fields under Exact pixels. Position X and Position Y set the top-left corner of the crop, so you can reproduce the same crop across several images.
How do I crop a photo into a circle?
Switch Shape to Circle. The crop box locks to a square, and the result is exported as a PNG with a transparent background outside the circle — which is what you need for a profile picture or a logo.
Will cropping reduce the quality of my image?
Cropping itself only discards pixels outside the box, so the pixels you keep are untouched. Quality is only affected by the format you export to: choose PNG for a lossless result, or JPG / WebP with the quality slider if you want a smaller file.
Which image formats can I crop?
Any format your browser can decode — in practice JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP and AVIF. You can export the result as JPG, PNG or WebP regardless of what you started with.
How do I crop a photo for Instagram or another social platform?
Pick the matching preset before you download: 1:1 for a feed post, 4:5 for a portrait post, 9:16 for a Story or Reel, 16:9 for a YouTube thumbnail. Cropping it yourself means the platform will not do it for you, which is where most badly framed uploads come from.
Can I crop a PDF page here?
Not directly — this tool works on images. If you have the page as an image, crop it here and then run it through our Image to PDF converter to get a PDF back.
Can I crop a picture on my phone?
Yes. The page works in mobile browsers and the crop box can be dragged with a finger. Because the cropping happens on your own device, a large photo never has to be uploaded over mobile data first.

Which crop ratio should you use?

The presets above are not arbitrary. Each one matches a placement that will otherwise crop the image for you, usually in the wrong place. Choose the ratio yourself and you decide what stays in the frame.

  • 1:1 square — Instagram feed posts, profile pictures and avatars, product thumbnails on most marketplaces.
  • 4:5 portrait — the tallest shape Instagram shows in the feed without shrinking it, so it fills the most screen.
  • 16:9 widescreen — YouTube thumbnails, video covers, desktop wallpapers, presentation slides.
  • 9:16 vertical — Stories, Reels, TikTok and Shorts: full screen on a phone.
  • 4:3 — what most phone and compact cameras shoot by default, so it is the safest ratio when the photo should look untouched.
  • 3:2 — the 35 mm frame, and the ratio that fills a 6×4 inch print with no border.
  • 2:3 portrait — fills a 4×6 inch print, the standard photo-lab size.
  • Circle — avatars and logos that sit on a coloured background. Exported as PNG so the corners stay genuinely transparent instead of white.

Cropping for print

Print sizes are ratios, not pixel counts. A 6×4 inch print is 3:2 whether you send 1800×1200 or 3000×2000 pixels. So crop to the ratio first, then check the long edge still has enough pixels — around 300 per inch, which means about 1800 px for a 6-inch side. The live readout under the crop box shows exactly what you will get.

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