1Upload your JPEG images and wait for the preview to appear.
2Pick a crop preset: 1:1, 16:9 or 4:3 cuts the largest centred area of that shape, and Free Crop keeps the whole picture.
3Start the crop and wait for the result.
4Download the cropped JPEG file, with everything outside the frame discarded.
Crop JPEG FAQ
How does Crop JPEG select and cut the area?
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Concretely, the crop is applied to the decoded image and the result is re-encoded, so it costs one generation; where the crop happens to land on 8-pixel MCU boundaries the encoder can keep the original blocks and the cost disappears. 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.
Does my source format change how a crop behaves?
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It can. JPEG is the same codec as JPG under a longer extension — identical DCT pipeline, identical quantisation tables, nothing about the pixels changes with the filename. That decides whether the crop is a pure pixel operation or whether the file has to be rebuilt around it.
Anything specific to JPEG worth knowing before I crop?
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Yes — the .jpeg and .jpg extensions are the same bitstream, so nothing here behaves differently from a .jpg — only the filename changes. That is the sort of detail that only shows up after you have overwritten the original.
What is the most common mistake when cropping JPEG images?
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Cropping before resizing. Crop first from the full-resolution original, then resize the result — doing it the other way round means the region you keep has already lost detail it did not need to lose.
Can I crop several files to the same region at once?
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Yes, and that is the case worth doing here rather than in an editor: the same rectangle is applied across the batch, which is how a set of product shots ends up genuinely consistent instead of approximately consistent.
What can I upload to Crop JPEG?
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Anything in the lossy raster family — JPG, JPEG, JFIF and WebP — plus the lossless formats (PNG, BMP, TIFF) if you want to mix them in one batch. The format is read from the file header, not the extension, so a photo saved with the wrong suffix still goes through.
Is there a file size limit on Crop JPEG?
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Yes: free accounts process images up to 5 MB each, which covers essentially every camera JPG and phone photo; the work is done by libjpeg-turbo and libwebp, the same libraries a desktop editor links against. Larger files are the one thing the free tier will stop you on, and the limit is per file rather than per batch.
Will Crop JPEG lower the quality of my JPEG images?
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A lossy source is already the result of one quantisation pass, and any operation that has to re-encode adds a second. Where the job can be done without touching the pixel data we do that instead, and where it cannot you choose the quality factor yourself rather than getting a fixed default.
Can I run Crop JPEG on several JPEG images at once?
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Yes. Drop the whole set into the upload area and they queue in parallel with identical settings — that is the main reason to do this in a browser rather than one file at a time in an editor. Free accounts run one file per batch; a pass lifts that.
What happens to EXIF and colour profile data?
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It depends on the tool. Compression strips EXIF and the embedded colour profile to save space, while edits such as resizing or rotating can keep them. There is no setting on this page to choose, so check the file with a metadata viewer before publishing it if location data matters.
Does Crop JPEG cost anything?
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No. Crop JPEG is free without an account and adds no watermark. The upload and the result are deleted automatically about 24 hours after the job, which leaves time to download the result.
