1Upload your PNG 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 PNG file, with everything outside the frame discarded.
Crop PNG FAQ
How does Crop PNG select and cut the area?
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Concretely, the pixel rectangle you select is written straight out again with no re-encoding step at all, so a crop of a lossless image is exactly the corresponding region of the original, byte for byte. 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. PNG is lossless DEFLATE with a full 8-bit alpha channel and optional 16-bit depth, so it never degrades on re-save but gets large on photographic content. That decides whether the crop is a pure pixel operation or whether the file has to be rebuilt around it.
Anything specific to PNG worth knowing before I crop?
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Yes — there is no quality slider to get wrong — a PNG round-trips bit-exactly, so the only thing edits cost you is file size. That is the sort of detail that only shows up after you have overwritten the original.
What is the most common mistake when cropping PNG 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 PNG?
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PNG, BMP and TIFF are the lossless raster formats this handles directly, and lossy sources (JPG, WebP, GIF) work too if you want them in the same batch. Multi-page TIFFs are detected and handled page by page.
Is there a file size limit on Crop PNG?
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Yes: free accounts process images up to 5 MB each; lossless sources hit that ceiling sooner than photographs do, because nothing has been thrown away yet. If you are over it, converting to PNG first is often enough on its own — a BMP is routinely ten to twenty times the size of the identical image as PNG.
Will Crop PNG lower the quality of my PNG images?
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No. A lossless source round-trips bit-exactly, so unless you explicitly ask for a lossy output format the pixels that come back are the pixels that went in. That is the whole reason to keep working in this family while you are still editing.
Can I run Crop PNG on several PNG images at once?
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Yes — upload the set and they process in parallel under one set of settings. Lossless files are larger, so a big batch is bound by your upload speed rather than by the processing itself.
Does the alpha channel survive?
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Yes. PNG and TIFF carry a full 8-bit alpha channel and it is preserved end to end. It is only flattened if you deliberately target a format that has no alpha, in which case transparent pixels are composited onto white.
Does Crop PNG cost anything?
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No. Crop PNG 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.
