Crop an image to 16:9

Drag a frame over your photo or type exact pixels, then download just the part you kept. Nothing leaves your browser.

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How to Crop Image

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Drop your image
Add one image: JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF or BMP. The picture opens straight in your tab; no copy is sent to a server.
2
Drag the frame or type exact pixels
Move and resize the crop box with your mouse or finger, snap it to a fixed ratio like 1:1 or 16:9, or type the exact x, y, width and height.
3
Download the cropped file
Press the button and save the result. JPG, PNG and WebP keep their format; AVIF comes back as WebP, and GIF and BMP as PNG.

A frame locked to 16:9

The page opens with “16:9” selected under “Aspect ratio”, so the frame can be moved and resized but keeps its shape. On a photo narrower than 16:9, it starts at 80 percent of the width, a tenth in from the left and top edges. On a 4032 × 3024 phone photo that makes 3226 × 1814 pixels, leaving the bottom 30 percent outside. On an upright 3024 × 4032 photo it is a 2419 × 1361 strip near the top. Drag it onto the subject or nudge it with the arrow keys. The size you will get is shown under the photo, next to the result thumbnail.

Common 16:9 sizes in pixels

A frame is exactly 16:9 when its width is 16 times a whole number and its height 9 times the same number. The usual sizes are 1280 × 720, 1920 × 1080, 2560 × 1440 and 3840 × 2160. The starting frame can miss by a fraction of a pixel: 3226 × 9 ÷ 16 is 1814.6, rounded to 1814. For an exact size, open “More settings” and type both “Width” and “Height”, then place the corner with “X position” and “Y position”. Cropping never enlarges: a 1280 × 800 picture gives at most 1280 × 720, an upright phone photo 3024 × 1701.

What three photos gave

In our check on October 20, 2026, in Chrome on a Mac, the 5.1 MB phone photo gave a 2.0 MB JPG from the starting frame. Typed in as 3840 × 2160, it gave exactly that size at 3.2 MB, within about two seconds of “Download JPG”. A 405 kB photo of 1280 × 800 gave 1024 × 576 at 272 kB, and 1280 × 720 at 392 kB. The upright 5.3 MB photo gave 2419 × 1361 at 1.8 MB, 3024 × 1701 at 2.0 MB and 1920 × 1080 at 782 kB. The crop is saved as a JPEG at quality 92: 1280 × 720 kept 90 percent of the small photo's pixels and 97 percent of its weight. “Quality” under “More settings” goes down to 60, and Compress Image goes further.

One photo per pass, then the next step

The page crops one photo per pass: download the result, press “Replace file” and drop the next one. 16:9 stays selected, and the frame starts again from its default place. JPG, PNG and WebP keep their format; AVIF comes back as WebP, GIF and BMP as PNG. On a phone, the frame moves with a finger, the settings sit behind the “Settings” button, and the photo never leaves the device. For a video cover with a title, YouTube Thumbnail Maker makes a 1280 × 720 JPG directly. Resize Image brings a 3840 × 2160 crop down to 1920 × 1080.

Your photo never leaves your device

Decoding, cropping and re-encoding all happen inside your browser tab using the Canvas API. There is no upload, no server-side queue, and no copy sitting anywhere waiting to be deleted later. Close the tab and the image is gone from memory, which matters for anything from a passport scan to a family photo you would rather not hand to a stranger's server.

Frequently asked questions

Can I crop a JPEG without losing quality?

Not perfectly. Cropping a JPEG means decoding and re-encoding it, since the frame rarely lines up with the internal 8x8 pixel blocks. The tool re-encodes at quality 92, which is visually indistinguishable from the source at normal sizes. If you need a strictly lossless crop that respects the block grid, a desktop tool with a lossless JPEG transform is the right choice, not a browser canvas.

How do I set an exact pixel crop?

Open More settings and type the x and y position of the top-left corner and the width and height. The frame on the image updates to match, and dragging the frame afterward updates the numbers right back.

What aspect ratios are available?

Free-form, 1:1, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9 and 9:16 are one click away, and a custom ratio field accepts any pair like 21:9 or 5:4. Picking a ratio locks the frame's proportions while you drag it.

Does the transparent background survive the crop?

Yes. PNG and WebP alpha channels are cropped along with the color data and nothing is filled in behind them, so a logo on a transparent background stays transparent after cropping.

Can I crop several photos at once with the same frame?

Not on this page: it crops one photo at a time. To give a set of photos the same shape, choose the same ratio for each one, or type the same width and height under More settings.

What happens to EXIF data?

The rotation tag is read and applied before cropping, so a portrait phone photo that would otherwise look sideways is cropped the way it actually appears on screen. Other EXIF metadata such as camera model or GPS location is not carried into the cropped file.

How is this different from resizing?

Cropping removes part of the image and keeps the remaining pixels at their original resolution; resizing keeps the whole image but scales every pixel up or down. Crop first if you want to change what is in the frame, then resize if you also need a specific final pixel size.

Does it work on a phone?

Yes. The crop frame responds to touch the same way it responds to a mouse, and the whole process of decoding, cropping, re-encoding and downloading runs locally in the phone's own browser.