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.
What is the most common mistake when cropping 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.
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 run Crop Image on several images at once?
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Yes, and mixing formats in the batch is fine — settings are applied per file with the right decoder for each. Free accounts run one file at a time; a pass removes that.
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.
Is there a file size limit on Crop Image?
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Yes: free accounts process images up to 5 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 does a Word site host Crop Image?
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WORD.to is built around the editable end of a document's life — the DOCX that is still being written, still being styled and still being argued over, before anyone flattens it for sending. Office files are containers full of other people's media — images, embedded audio, fonts — so the work people need on them is usually the work they would need on those contents anyway. Crop Image shares the upload, the caps and the account with the conversions for that reason.
What should I do with the result once Crop Image is finished?
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The converter on this site takes documents out to PDF for sending, to images for embedding and to plain text for anything that has to read them programmatically, and back the other way. Doing that afterwards keeps the editable original around, which is the part you cannot get back once it has been flattened.
Is Crop Image here the same tool the sibling sites run?
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The engines are shared — the same document toolchain, the same workers, the same limits. What a Word site adds is a view on what survives leaving the Office format and what does not, which is the question every one of these jobs actually turns on. It also starts from one fact about the format this site is named after: the document is a zip of XML, so text edits are cheap and the weight is almost always the embedded images.
Do I need an account, and does anything get kept?
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No account, and nothing is kept: uploads are deleted from the workers shortly after the job finishes, nothing is read and nothing is indexed. Free accounts exist for history and batch size, not for access.
