Crop pictures to an exact 16:9 shape
16:9 is the shape of widescreen video, most slide templates and many website headers. This page opens the cropper with the 16:9 shape selected, so every result is exactly 16 wide by 9 high.
- Upload one picture, several, or a ZIP of a folder.
- Move the 16:9 frame over the part you want to keep. The drawn area is used for every picture of a batch, as a share of its width and height.
- Click Crop.
How the shape is enforced
The cropper takes the largest 16:9 rectangle that fits inside the area you chose and centres it there. A 4000 × 3000 photo with nothing drawn becomes 4000 × 2250 (the full width, with the top and bottom trimmed evenly); a tall phone photo keeps its full width and loses more height. Every result has the same shape, even when the pictures of a batch have different sizes.
Common 16:9 sizes are 1920 × 1080 (Full HD) and 1280 × 720. To get one of those, set “Then shrink to” under “More options” to 1920 or 1280. Pictures smaller than that are not enlarged.
Quality and formats
JPEG results are saved with the same quality setting as the originals; PNG, GIF, BMP and TIFF stay lossless. Animated GIFs, WebPs and APNGs are cropped frame by frame and keep their timing. Photos from phones are turned upright first, so the frame sits where you placed it.
Other shapes are one click away in the same form: 9:16 for vertical stories, 4:5 for portrait posts, 3:1 for banners, or square.
More about what this tool reads and writes: Image Cropper.