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Crop JPG

Advanced Settings

Force Target Pixel Size

Force exact output dimensions (e.g. Passport 630x810)

JPG Output Quality90%

10%100%

Output Format: JPG (Opaque)This tool is configured to output high-quality JPEG format. Note that transparency is filled with background color.

Learn & Help

How to Crop JPG / JPEG Photos

1Upload JPG Photo
Drop your JPEG or JPG photo into the workspace.
2Set Crop Frame
Choose an aspect ratio preset or adjust the selection box freely.
3Save Cropped JPG
Download your optimized JPEG with custom compression quality.

Background Fill (White / Blue / Black): Fills padding margins cleanly for official photo requirements.
Output Quality (10 - 100): Controls compression level and file size.

JPEG Background Fills
Fill margins with clean White, Blue, Black, or Custom colors for passports.
Fine Quality Tuning
Adjust JPEG compression quality from 10 to 100 to balance file size and sharpness.
Passport Photo Ready
Instantly format photos for visa and passport requirements.
Client-Side Speed
Ultra-fast cropping and hardware-accelerated previews.

Because JPEG does not support transparency, filling outer rotated margins with solid white or passport blue prevents black-box corner artifacts.

Yes, slightly. JPEG stores an approximation of the image rather than exact pixels, and saving again re-runs that approximation, so a small amount of detail is discarded even at quality 100. The loss is invisible once but compounds, so always crop from the original photo rather than from a file you already cropped, resized or compressed earlier. If you need several different crops of one photo, go back to the original each time.

Tools that advertise a lossless JPEG crop are copying the compressed data instead of re-encoding it, and JPEG stores that data in blocks — 8 pixels wide, or 16 when the file uses the usual 4:2:0 colour subsampling. A lossless crop can only cut on a block boundary, so it silently snaps your selection outward. PDFixel re-encodes, which means the crop lands exactly where you put it at the cost of one generation of JPEG loss.

Phone cameras usually save the sensor image in its native orientation and add an EXIF orientation flag telling viewers how to rotate it. Gallery apps honour that flag; some editors do not, which is why the same file can appear upright in one place and rotated in another. Use the straighten and rotation controls to correct it before cropping. Worth knowing either way: because the output is re-encoded from a canvas, the result carries no EXIF block at all, so camera model, timestamps and any GPS coordinates in the original are dropped.

Crop JPG

Crop and reframe your JPEG photos with precision and custom quality tuning.

Drop JPG image here to crop & edit

JPG / JPEG format images only • Interactive 60FPS Drag, Zoom & Color Edit

Max 100MB per fileSingle file

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