Image Cropper
Quick start
Done in 4 steps
- 1
Upload your image
Drop in a JPEG, PNG or WebP file, paste from your clipboard, or take a photo on mobile. It never leaves your device.
- 2
Choose a preset
Pick from Government, Social Media, Developer or Custom categories — Presetly applies the exact crop and dimensions automatically.
- 3
Adjust the crop
Drag to reposition, pinch or scroll to zoom, and rotate if needed. The crop box always keeps your chosen ratio.
- 4
Crop and download
Tap Crop and your image is ready instantly, sized exactly for your goal — no manual pixel maths required.
- 1
Upload your image
Drop in a JPEG, PNG or WebP file, paste from your clipboard, or take a photo on mobile. It never leaves your device.
- 2
Choose a preset
Pick from Government, Social Media, Developer or Custom categories — Presetly applies the exact crop and dimensions automatically.
- 3
Adjust the crop
Drag to reposition, pinch or scroll to zoom, and rotate if needed. The crop box always keeps your chosen ratio.
- 4
Crop and download
Tap Crop and your image is ready instantly, sized exactly for your goal — no manual pixel maths required.
Government photo crop guide
Indian exam and ID portals are strict about photo framing: UPSC, GPSC and SSC all expect a 3.5×4.5 cm portrait with the face centred and shoulders visible, while Aadhaar and PAN card uploads use smaller square or near-square crops built around the UIDAI and NSDL specifications.
The Government presets in this tool are pulled from the same specification data Presetly's photo resizer uses, so a Passport crop always exports at exactly 600×600 px and a PAN Card crop at exactly 200×230 px — whatever portion of the photo you actually drag and zoom into.
For the best result, start with a well-lit photo taken against a plain background, centre the face inside the crop box, and leave a little headroom above the hairline before cropping.
Social media crop guide
Every social network expects a different frame: Instagram posts are square, Stories and Reel covers are tall 9:16, and cover photos on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter/X are wide horizontal banners. Uploading the wrong ratio usually means the platform crops it again for you — often worse than if you had framed it yourself.
The Social Media presets here match each platform's current recommended dimensions, so a LinkedIn Banner crop exports at 1584×396 px and a YouTube Thumbnail at 1280×720 px, ready to upload without any further resizing.
For banners and covers, keep any text or logos away from the edges — platforms often overlay profile pictures or UI elements on top of the outer portion of the image.
Why crop before uploading
Most exam portals, ID document uploaders and social platforms reject images that don't match their expected frame — or silently crop them from the centre, which often cuts off a face or a logo. Cropping to the right ratio yourself means what you see is exactly what gets uploaded.
Cropping locally also means faster uploads: a photo cropped down to 600×600 px or 1280×720 px is a fraction of the size of the original camera file, and no image ever has to leave your device to be resized by a server.
Frequently asked questions
- Is my image uploaded to a server when I crop it?
- No. Every crop runs on your device using the browser's Canvas API. The image is read from your file system into memory, cropped, and offered back to you as a download — it is never transmitted anywhere.
- Will my cropped photo be the exact size a portal requires?
- Yes, for every preset in the Government, Social Media and Developer categories. Presetly automatically resizes the final crop to the exact pixel dimensions of that preset (for example 600×600 px for Passport, or 1280×720 px for a YouTube Thumbnail), regardless of how much of the original photo you selected.
- What is the difference between a preset crop and the Custom category?
- Presets lock the crop box to a fixed ratio and resize the output to an exact pixel size automatically. Custom crops let you pick a common ratio (square, 4:3, 16:9…), type your own ratio, or crop completely free-form — the output keeps whatever resolution you selected, with no forced resize.
- Can I rotate or flip an image before cropping?
- Yes. Open "Advanced options" below the crop area to rotate in either direction, flip horizontally or vertically, or drag the rotation slider for fine adjustments — all before you tap Crop.
- Which file formats are supported?
- You can upload JPEG, PNG or WebP images up to 20 MB. The cropped result can be downloaded as JPEG, PNG or WEBP — choose the output format under "Advanced options".
- Does this image cropper work on mobile phones?
- Yes. It is built mobile-first with large touch targets, pinch-to-zoom, and drag-to-pan, and works in Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge on both Android and iOS.
- Is the Image Cropper free to use?
- Completely free, with no sign-up, no watermark, and no limit on the number of images you crop. Because processing happens on your device, it costs nothing to run.
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