1Upload your PSD files 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 PSD file, with everything outside the frame discarded.
Crop PSD FAQ
Does my source format change how a crop behaves?
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It can. PSD is Photoshop native — layers, masks, adjustment layers and blend modes stay live and editable, which no flat image format can represent. That decides whether the crop is a pure pixel operation or whether the file has to be rebuilt around it.
Anything specific to PSD worth knowing before I crop?
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Yes — layers, masks and adjustment layers are live objects rather than pixels, so a tool either preserves them or composites them down — there is no middle option. That is the sort of detail that only shows up after you have overwritten the original.
What is the most common mistake when cropping PSD files?
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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 run Crop PSD on several PSD files at once?
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Yes, though layered documents are the heaviest thing in the image family to decode, so a batch of large PSDs takes noticeably longer per file than the equivalent JPGs.
Do layers, masks and text stay editable?
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Only if the output is itself a layered format. A flat image format cannot represent a live layer, an editable text object or an adjustment layer, so those are baked into the result. Keep your original PSD — the output is a deliverable, not a replacement master.
Is there a file size limit on Crop PSD?
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Yes: free accounts process images up to 5 MB each, and layered documents reach that faster than anything else in the image family because every layer stores its own pixel data. A working PSD with dozens of layers can exceed that easily; flattening a copy in Photoshop first, or converting to TIFF, is the usual way around it.
Why does a Word site host Crop PSD?
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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 PSD shares the upload, the caps and the account with the conversions for that reason.
What should I do with the result once Crop PSD 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 PSD 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 is needed. Uploads and results are kept for about 24 hours, which leaves time to download the result, and are then deleted automatically; nobody reads, lists or indexes them. Several files in one job need a paid plan.
