Crop PNG

Crop and trim your PNG images to the exact area you need. Our visual cropper handles PNG (lossless graphics) and every other common format — free, private and right in your browser.

Open the Cropper

Upload your PNG in the cropper, drag to select the area, and download the cropped image.

Crop PNG Precisely

Remove unwanted edges, focus on a subject, or produce a perfect square for social media. The cropper gives you a draggable, resizable selection with live preview so your PNG comes out exactly right.

What Makes Cropping a PNG Different?

PNG is the format of choice for screenshots, logos, diagrams and any graphic with sharp edges or transparency — and those strengths survive the crop. Because PNG is lossless, the area you keep is written to the new file pixel for pixel, with no compression pass that could blur small text or add artifacts around clean lines. That makes this cropper ideal for cutting a single dialog, error message or chart out of a full-screen screenshot for documentation and bug reports.

Transparency is preserved too. If your PNG has a transparent background, the cropped download keeps its alpha channel, so you can trim away excess transparent padding around a logo or icon and the result still drops cleanly onto any colored background. When transparency is not needed and file size matters more, you can switch the output format to JPG or WebP before downloading.

  • Crop screenshots to a single window, dialog or chart with text kept sharp.
  • Trim transparent padding around logos and icons for tidy layouts.
  • Keep the alpha channel for overlays, watermarks and web graphics.

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about cropping PNG images.

Yes, completely free with no watermark and no signup.

Yes. You can keep the original PNG format when you download, or convert it if you prefer.

No. Cropping runs entirely in your browser, so your images stay on your device.

Yes. When you keep PNG as the output format, the alpha channel survives the crop untouched — transparent areas inside your selection stay transparent in the downloaded file.

No. PNG is a lossless format, so the pixels inside your selection are written to the new file exactly as they were — there is no compression step that could soften text or edges.

You can drag any free-form rectangle or lock the selection to presets like 1:1, 4:3, 16:9, 3:2 and 2:3. For a circular cut-out with a transparent background, use our dedicated round crop tool.