Image Cropper

Not with PNG export — it's a pixel-exact lossless cut from the original at native resolution. JPEG export re-encodes at high quality (92%), which introduces slight compression; choose it when file size matters more than perfection. Either way, the on-screen preview being scaled down doesn't affect the download.

Square (1:1) for profile pictures almost everywhere; 4:5 for Instagram feed portraits (it takes the most screen space); 16:9 for YouTube thumbnails and Twitter/X images; 9:16 for stories, Reels, and TikTok. When in doubt, crop loose — platforms recompress but rarely crop wider content well.

No. The image loads onto a canvas element in your own browser tab, the crop is computed there, and the download is generated locally. Photos carry more personal information than almost any file type — location metadata, faces, documents in the background — which is why local processing matters.

No — canvas export strips EXIF, so the cropped file loses GPS coordinates, camera info, and timestamps. For sharing photos publicly that's usually a feature, not a bug. If you need to inspect what metadata the original contains, use our EXIF viewer first.

Switch the shape toggle to Circle and the crop region locks to a square with a round preview. On export, everything outside the circle is made transparent and the file saves as a PNG — so it drops cleanly onto any background color for round avatars and profile pictures. JPEG is disabled in circle mode because JPEG can't store transparency (it would fill the corners with white).