Drag the corners to choose the part of the picture you want to keep. Locking a ratio keeps the selection at a fixed shape, which is what you need for a profile picture, a document, or an ID photo.
Cropping re-encodes the image, and that quietly strips the metadata a camera writes into a photo — including the GPS coordinates of where it was taken. That is usually a good thing to lose before sharing a picture.
How it works
- Choose one image.
- Pick a ratio, or leave it free, then drag the selection.
- Crop and download the result.
Frequently asked questions
Is the photo uploaded anywhere?
No. The image is decoded and cropped in your browser, and the file is not sent to Utilark.
Does cropping remove the location data?
Yes. The result is drawn fresh, so EXIF metadata including GPS coordinates and the camera model does not carry over.
Why does the selection jump to a neat shape?
On the free setting, a selection that comes within a couple of percent of a ratio that matters — square, 4:3, 16:9, an ID photo, or the picture's own shape — is snapped onto it exactly, and the label at the top of the selection names it. A selection that looks square should be square. A4 only joins that list once the selection is at least 1240 pixels on its short edge, because below that the crop is too small to print at A4 and the snap would only get in the way. Pick a ratio from the menu to hold one deliberately, or switch the label off with the checkbox.
Which ID photo ratio do I need, 3:4 or 3.5:4.5?
3:4 is the 30 by 40 millimetre print used on Korean resumes and school records. 3.5:4.5 is the 35 by 45 millimetre print that passports and national ID cards ask for, and it is also the common size across the EU, the UK, and Japan. The tool fixes the ratio; printing at the right physical size is a separate step, and a passport office may have its own rules about the head position within the frame.
Does the picture lose quality?
A PNG stays lossless. A JPG or WebP is compressed again when it is saved, so crop from the original rather than from a file you already cropped once.