Crop Image

Ratios and social media presets

The ratio buttons fix the shape of the crop box while you choose what goes inside it:

• 1:1 for square profile pictures, product shots and classic feed posts.
• 4:5 for tall portrait posts that take up more of a phone screen.
• 16:9 for video thumbnails, presentation slides and widescreen banners; 9:16 for full-screen stories and reels.
• 4:3 and 3:2 match the natural shape of most phone and camera photos.
• Original keeps the photo’s own shape while you trim the edges.

The social media presets go one step further and also resize the result to the exact pixel size each platform recommends, such as 1080 × 1350 for an Instagram portrait post or 1280 × 720 for a YouTube thumbnail. Platforms do change their layouts from time to time; our social media image size guide explains the shapes that matter most.

Cropping a batch of photos

When you add several images, choosing a ratio applies it to all of them, with each crop box placed in the middle of its photo. That’s perfect for a set of product photos taken the same way. For pictures where the subject isn’t centered, open each one with Edit crop and move its box; every image remembers its own crop until you change the ratio again.

Cropping only removes pixels from the edges, so a crop never stretches or squashes anything. If you need a different size without losing any of the picture, Resize Image is the right tool, and Rotate & Flip fixes photos that are on their side.

Auto-frame: let AI place the box

Cropping a batch to a tall 9:16 story or a square post usually means fixing every box by hand, because the subject is rarely in the middle. Auto-frame with AI does that for you. A small face detector finds the people in each photo and places faces on the upper third of the frame, the classic portrait composition. Photos without faces go to a cut-out model that finds the main subject, such as a product, a pet or a plate of food, and centers the box on it.

Auto-frame is optional and runs on your device. The first time, your browser asks before downloading the two small models (about 5 MB together, plus the 14 MB AI engine if you haven’t used one of our AI tools before) and keeps them for next time. Every box can still be adjusted afterward with Edit crop, and changing the ratio keeps the boxes on their subjects.

What gets saved

The cropped image keeps its original format, so PNGs stay transparent and JPGs stay JPGs, saved at 92% quality. iPhone HEIC photos open in the editor (via a small decoding step in browsers other than Safari) and are saved as JPG.

Crop boxes are worked out on the full-resolution image, not the preview, so a 4000-pixel photo cropped to a square gives you a sharp 3000 × 3000 result. Phone photos that are stored sideways are turned upright before you see them, so the crop matches exactly what’s on screen. All of this happens in your browser; the photos are never uploaded.