Crop, straighten and resize photos

Crop ratios for every use

Press C and the crop box starts as the whole photo. The Ratio menu has Free, Original, 1 : 1 square, 4 : 5, 5 : 4, 3 : 2, 2 : 3, 16 : 9, 9 : 16 and Custom, and a swap button turns portrait into landscape. The output size shows in pixels as you drag. Shift keeps the ratio while you resize from a handle, Alt resizes from the centre, and Enter or a double-click applies.

Use 1 : 1 for profile pictures and marketplace listings, 4 : 5 for portrait social posts and 16 : 9 for banners and video thumbnails. Image ▸ Crop to selection crops tightly around a selected object, such as a product you painted with Quick Selection.

Straighten and rotate while you crop

Cropping and rotation are one step. Drag outside the box to rotate (Shift snaps to 15°), type an exact Angle, or turn on Straighten and draw a line along something that should be level. The box stays inside the photo as it turns, so no empty corners appear. Rotate 90°, Rotate 180° and Flip horizontal or vertical sit in the Image menu next to Image size.

Resize a photo in pixels or per cent

Image ▸ Image size… changes the image size in Pixels or Per cent, with Keep proportions on or off. Making a photo smaller for email, a form upload or a website is the typical use. Enlarging with Image size only stretches the existing pixels; for a sharper, bigger version, Upscale ×2 or ×4 is a CutLift Pro feature.

Layers, masks, text and other edits are resized with the photo in the same step, so cutouts stay matched and one undo restores the original.

Free and on your device

Cropping, straightening, rotating, flipping and resizing are all free, with no watermark. This image resizer runs in your browser, so nothing is uploaded when you crop a photo online. Save a project or a Photoshop (PSD) file; cut-outs export as PNG or WebP, and Cutout Studio can save a JPEG of a subject on a solid background.