Crop and Resize an Image in One Step

• Cuts out the part of the photo inside the frame, in the exact shape of the width and height you typed.
• Scales that part once, from the original pixels, to the exact pixel count — enlarging it if it is smaller.
• Encodes the result as JPEG, PNG or WebP; a KB limit is met by searching JPEG or WebP quality, since PNG is lossless and is refused instead if it will not fit.
• Drops the camera data: the new file carries no EXIF and no GPS position from the original.

• Never meets a KB limit by shrinking the picture; a limit it cannot reach is refused in words.
• Writes no DPI unless you type one or give the size in millimetres, centimetres or inches, and never into a WebP.
• Leaves the original untouched — the cropped copy is a new file you download.

1. Add the photo. Drop a JPEG, PNG or WebP on the panel above, up to 20 MB, or try the sample photo to see every step before using your own.
2. Type the width and height. Enter the size in pixels the form or the platform asks for. The frame takes that shape straight away: 600 × 600 makes it square, and 200 × 230 makes it a little taller than it is wide.
3. Place the part to keep inside the frame. Drag the photo until the face, the product or the corner of the scene that matters sits inside the frame, and zoom in when you want to keep less of it. Everything outside is what gets cut away.
4. Add a KB limit if there is one, then press Fit image. Leave Maximum file size empty when only the pixels matter. With a limit, a JPEG or WebP has its quality searched for the best fit; a PNG is lossless, so it either already meets the limit or is refused. The checklist under the result shows the size and the bytes it actually reached before Download image appears.

Scale first and cut second, and the cut works on a picture that already has the wrong proportions: a wide landscape scaled down to the target width is too short to give a square, and cutting it can only make it smaller still. Cut first by eye and scale second, and the shape you cut is rarely exactly the one the form wants, so the final step either stretches the picture or misses by a few pixels.

Taking both from one instruction removes the guesswork. The numbers you type decide the shape of the frame, the frame decides which part of the original survives, and that part is resampled once, straight from the source pixels. One resample instead of two is also one round of softening instead of two.

Upload forms tend to state two numbers, a pixel box and a file size, and they pull in different directions. A tool that only scales leaves the bytes to chance; a compressor allowed to shrink the picture can meet the bytes by quietly handing back fewer pixels than the form asked for. Here the box is fixed the moment you type it, and a JPEG or WebP meets the limit by lowering its encoding quality at that exact box; a PNG is lossless, so at the same box it either already fits or is refused — never by shrinking the picture.

For a JPEG, the quality search stops at 50, because below that a JPEG starts to show blocks. If the file still does not fit at that floor, the page says so in a sentence and offers the levers that are left — WebP, a lower quality you allow on purpose, or a different limit — rather than a file that breaks either rule. A WebP goes first to its encoder’s own size control, which aims straight at the limit and sets no quality floor; the search down to 50 runs only if that misses, and a WebP still too big is offered a lower quality or a different limit.

One measured run shows it working: a 1600 × 1067 JPEG of 384.2 KB was cropped to fill a 600 × 600 box under 100 KB, and came back at exactly that size in 96.74 KB — the pixels the form asked for, and the bytes as well.

JPEG is what most forms expect and what photographs are usually saved as, so it is selected to begin with. PNG is lossless, which suits a logo, a screenshot or anything with text in it, but it is the hardest of the three to hold under a small limit. WebP usually comes out smallest for the same look, and it is the one to try when a JPEG will not fit, provided the place you are sending it accepts WebP.

A see-through source has to go somewhere when the output is JPEG, which has no transparency. The clear areas are filled with a background colour you choose — white to begin with — while PNG and WebP keep the transparency as it was.

Doing both at once is for a picture with a destination that states fixed numbers. When only the framing matters, the plain cropper keeps the pixels you select at their original size. When only the dimensions matter and the whole picture should stay in, the resizer keeps all of it when you set one side and let the other follow. And when the requirement is a size on paper rather than in pixels, resize it for print converts centimetres or inches at a DPI first.

For a passport or visa photo, start from the passport photo tool instead: it carries the published size rules for the countries it lists, each with the authority’s own page cited beside it.

A single photo may be up to 20 MB. The finished picture may not pass 8000 pixels on either side, or 40 megapixels in all, and on a square or near-square box the megapixel limit is the one reached first: the largest square it allows is 6324 × 6324 pixels. The crop, the scaling and every encode in the size search run in this browser tab on your own device: the photo is read where it already sits and the result comes back as a download, so the photo itself never leaves this device. The only requests the page makes are to this site, for its own code and files. A photo too large for what this device can spare is refused before the work starts, with the reason.

• One photo at a time: there is no batch mode here, so a set of pictures that all need the same box has to be fitted one by one.
• Enlarging a small crop to a big box reaches the pixel count but cannot add detail the photo never had; the page names both sizes before it runs.