Crop Image to a Square

How to crop a square

1. Select your photo — the crop box is already locked to 1:1.
2. Drag it over the part you want to keep, and resize with the corners.
3. Press Crop and download.

Square crop or square resize?

Both produce a square, but they differ in who chooses the framing:

• Square crop (this tool) — you position the box. Output dimensions depend on how large a box you drew.
• Resize to 600×600 / 1080×1080 — automatic centre crop, guaranteed exact output size.

For a portrait where the face is not centred, crop first, then resize the square to whatever exact size you need. That way you control both.

Where squares are required

• Profile photos on nearly every platform.
• Product listing images on major marketplaces.
• Album and podcast artwork — often 1400×1400 or 3000×3000.
• App icons before rounding.
• Grid layouts, where mixed ratios look untidy.

Cropping tall portraits

A 3:4 portrait loses a quarter of its height in a square crop, and a 9:16 phone photo loses far more. If the subject is a full-length person, a square crop will usually cut them off — consider a 4:5 crop instead, which keeps much more and still looks deliberate.

Choosing the output size

The crop box decides what you keep, not the final pixel size. These are the square sizes people ask for most:

Crop first to choose the framing, then run the result through the resize tool for the exact size. That way you control both, instead of leaving one to an automatic centre crop.

Cropping is excellent preparation

Cropping does not resample anything — it discards what falls outside the selection, so the pixels you keep are identical to the original. That makes it the best possible first step before heavy compression: a tightly cropped image spends every byte on the subject, so a 20 KB or 50 KB result looks markedly better than compressing the full frame.

EXIF data and GPS coordinates are also dropped, because the file is rebuilt from the decoded pixels.