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Crop your JPG

Drag the box over the part of the JPG you want to keep.

Quick answer

To crop a JPG, upload it to ezimagetools.com and drag the selection box over the part you want to keep — everything outside the box is trimmed away. Lock the box to 1:1, 4:3 or 16:9 when a platform needs a particular shape. Cropping a JPG re-encodes only the part you keep. It is free and needs no account.

At a glance

Formats accepted
One JPG at a time, so you can see what you are cropping
You get back
Just the area you selected, still a JPG
Maximum file size
50 MB per file
Price
Free, with no limit on how many images you process
Account needed
No — there is nothing to sign up for
Your files are deleted
Automatically, within one hour of processing

Updated 2026-08-31

How to crop jpg

  1. Add your JPG

    Tap the upload box and choose the JPG you want to crop.

  2. Drag the box

    Drag a corner to resize the selection and drag the middle to move it. It works with a finger.

  3. Lock a ratio if you need one

    Pick 1:1, 4:3 or 16:9 when the picture has to be a particular shape.

  4. Crop and download

    Press Crop, then save the trimmed JPG.

What a JPG is

JPG (also written JPEG) is the format almost every camera and website uses. It saves space by discarding the detail your eye is least likely to notice, which is why it cannot store transparency and why every re-save costs a little quality.

Crop before you compress

If a picture needs both, crop it first. Cropping removes pixels, so the compressor then has less to work on and can spend its whole quality budget on the part you actually kept.

Questions people ask

Does cropping a JPG reduce its quality?

Cropping a JPG re-encodes only the part you keep. Crop before you compress, so the encoder spends its whole quality budget on the pixels that survive rather than on the ones you were about to throw away.

How do I crop a JPG to a square?

Choose the 1:1 ratio before you drag. The selection box then stays square whatever size you make it, which is what profile pictures and most product listings expect.

Can I crop a JPG on my phone?

Yes. The crop box is built for touch — drag the middle to move the selection and a corner to resize it. The page never zooms out from under you while you are dragging.

Will cropping make the file smaller?

Usually, yes, because there are fewer pixels left to store. How much smaller depends on how much you trimmed away. If you need a specific file size, run the cropped image through the Compress tool afterwards.

Can I undo a crop?

Not on the cropped file — the trimmed pixels are gone. Your original is untouched, though: we never overwrite what you uploaded, so you can start again from it.

Is it safe to crop JPG files online?

Yes. Your file is processed on our server and deleted automatically within one hour. We never look at it and you do not need an account.

Your images are processed on our server and deleted automatically within one hour. We never look at them and you do not need an account.

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