Crop area
Shape
Exact crop rectangle
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Presets set the shape and the output size together.
You can type the numbers instead of dragging
Dragging a box with a mouse is fine until the form wants exactly 413 × 531 pixels starting 88 pixels from the left. The fields above take the rectangle directly, and the nudge buttons move it a pixel at a time. That is not only a convenience: WCAG 2.2 requires that anything you can do by dragging can also be done without dragging, and W3C is explicit that keyboard support alone does not satisfy it — the alternative has to be clickable too. So the buttons are the accessible path, and they happen to be the precise one as well.
The crop comes from the original pixels
The picture on screen is scaled down to fit your window. A surprising number of croppers then cut from that scaled-down copy, so a crop of a 4000 px photo quietly comes back at display resolution and looks soft. Here the rectangle is stored in original image coordinates the whole time and only projected onto the preview for display. What you get out is cut from the full-resolution original.
Locked ratios do not drift
Ask for 16:9 on an 800 × 450 image in a lot of tools and you get 800 × 449 — the height is recomputed from an already-rounded width, and the error compounds. This one derives the locked edge from the long side and rounds exactly once, so 16:9 on that image stays 800 × 450.
It will not enlarge your photo
If you ask for an output larger than the area you cropped, the tool says so and stops rather than stretching. Enlarging invents pixels that were never photographed; the file will hit the size the form asked for and still look wrong to whoever reviews it. Better to know now.
A caution about official photos
Specification presets here come from the issuing authority where one publishes exact pixels — the US visa digital photo is 600 × 600 to 1200 × 1200 px, square, 240 KB or less, and the UK digital passport photo is at least 600 × 750 px and at least 50 KB. Note that the US State Department asks for an unedited photo and tells applicants not to use digital tools to alter it. Cropping to a required size is not retouching, but read your own portal's wording before you rely on any tool, including this one.
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