1Upload your images and wait for the preview to appear.
2Drag out the region you want to keep, or lock the selection to 1:1, 4:3 or 16:9 and drag freely inside that ratio.
3Confirm the crop — the same rectangle is applied to every file you uploaded, which is how a set ends up genuinely consistent.
4Download the cropped Image file, with everything outside the frame discarded.
Crop Image FAQ
Does my source format change how a crop behaves?
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It can. this format is read and written by the same streaming pipeline as everything else we support. That decides whether the crop is a pure pixel operation or whether the file has to be rebuilt around it.
Anything specific to Image worth knowing before I crop?
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Yes — the pipeline reads the real format from the file header rather than the extension, so a mislabelled upload still works. That is the sort of detail that only shows up after you have overwritten the original.
How does Crop Image select and cut the area?
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Concretely, the same rectangle is applied to every file in the batch, which is how you get a consistent aspect ratio across a set of product shots without opening each one. You drag the region you want directly on the preview, or type exact pixel coordinates if you already know them.
Can I crop to a fixed aspect ratio?
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Yes. Lock the selection to 1:1, 4:3, 16:9 or any custom ratio and drag freely inside that constraint — which is how you get a set of images that all fit the same layout slot without measuring anything.
What happens to metadata and transparency?
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EXIF and the ICC colour profile are carried across wherever the target format supports them, and an alpha channel survives into any format that has one. Transparency is only flattened when the destination format has no way to represent it.
Which image formats does Crop Image accept?
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All of the common ones — JPG, JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP, TIFF, SVG, ICO, PSD, JFIF and HEIC. You can mix formats freely in one batch; each file is identified from its header and routed to the right decoder.
Is there a file size limit on Crop Image?
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Yes: free accounts process images up to 25 MB each regardless of which image format you brought; ImageMagick, libjpeg-turbo, libpng and libwebp do the actual work. The cap is per file, so a batch of twenty 5 MB photos is fine even though the total is well over the limit.
Will Crop Image lower the quality of my images?
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That depends on what you brought. A lossless source (PNG, BMP, TIFF) round-trips exactly; a lossy one (JPG, WebP, GIF) is already the product of one quantisation pass and only re-encodes if the operation genuinely requires it.
Why would a modern-format site run Crop Image?
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WEBP.to is built around the modern replacement for both of the old defaults: one format that does lossy, lossless, alpha and animation, and reliably lands smaller than the JPEG or PNG it came from. People arrive here having decided the old defaults are costing them bandwidth, and that decision immediately raises the rest: what size, what quality, what happens to the transparency. Crop Image is on the same upload and the same account so those questions get answered in one place.
Once Crop Image has run, what is worth doing next?
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The converter on this site moves images to and from WebP, PNG, JPG and AVIF, which is where you decide whether a smaller file is worth losing the older browsers. Doing it in that order matters: pick the pixels first and the container afterwards, because the container is the cheap decision and the pixels are the expensive one.
Do the sibling sites run something different?
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The engines are identical — same libraries, same workers, same caps. What is different is the opinion attached, and the opinion here rests on a property of the format this site is named after: the same .webp extension can hold a lossy VP8 frame, a lossless one, or an animation, so the sensible processing path is decided per file rather than per extension.
What happens to my file, and is an account required?
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No account, and nothing is retained: uploads are deleted from the workers shortly after the job finishes, and nothing is inspected, listed or indexed. Accounts exist for history and batch size only.
