Phone photos are 4:3 and camera photos 3:2, so neither fills a slide, a monitor or a video frame. Choose a photo and Photopip places the largest 16:9 frame that fits around the face, or around the most detailed area when there is no face, and crops. No pixels are resized. In the card you can switch to 9:16, 1:1, 4:5 or 4:3, or drag the frame yourself.

1. Click Choose a photo, or drop a JPG, PNG, WEBP or HEIC on the page. Photopip looks for a face (the face detector is 232 KB and downloads the first time), otherwise for the most detailed area, and crops the largest 16:9 frame around it.
2. Read the card. The small picture is your original with the cut-away parts darkened. The line under the ratios gives the result; for the 2000 × 1500 sample it reads 2000 × 1125 · JPG · about 904 KB · nothing resized. Click 9:16, 1:1, 4:5 or 4:3 to crop again from the original.
3. To move the frame, click Adjust crop. The canvas shows the whole photo with the frame on it; drag the frame, then click Crop to 16:9 or press Enter. Cancel brings back the crop you had.
4. Click Download JPG. The file name ends in -16x9.jpg.

Nothing is enlarged: a 1280 × 960 photo gives 1280 × 720, not 1920 × 1080. A 4:3 photo loses a strip at the top and bottom to become 16:9; a 3:2 photo loses less. A vertical photo cropped to 16:9 keeps only a strip of it, so pick 9:16 for it. The card always saves a JPG. To keep a transparent background, close the card with ✕ and choose File > Export > Quick Export as PNG.

Is the crop taken from the middle?

Only when there is nothing to aim at. With faces, the frame holds all of them and puts them about 40% of the way down. Without a face, it moves to the most detailed part of the photo, which can be busy background rather than the thing you care about; click Adjust crop and move it. The card says which one it used: "Framed on the face" or "Framed on the most detailed area".

How do I get exactly 1920 × 1080?

Crop to 16:9 here, close the card with ✕, choose Image > Image Size... and type 1920 for the width. A photo narrower than 1920 px is enlarged that way and looks softer.

Does cropping lower the quality?

Cropping by ratio cuts pixels away and resizes nothing. The download is a JPG written once at quality 92. For a copy without JPG compression, close the card with ✕ and choose File > Export > Quick Export as PNG.

What about 3:2 or 5:4?

Close the card with ✕ and press Ctrl+Z (Windows) or Command+Z (macOS) to undo the crop; on a phone, tap the undo arrow at the top. Select the Crop Tool, choose 2:3 (4:6) or 4:5 (8:10) in the options bar and click the swap button between the two numbers to turn it on its side. Drag the frame and press Enter.

Updated 2026-10-24

More toolsCrop imageResize imageCompress image

Phone photos are 4:3 and camera photos 3:2, so neither fills a slide, a monitor or a video frame. Choose a photo and Photopip places the largest 16:9 frame that fits around the face, or around the most detailed area when there is no face, and crops. No pixels are resized. In the card you can switch to 9:16, 1:1, 4:5 or 4:3, or drag the frame yourself.

1. Click Choose a photo, or drop a JPG, PNG, WEBP or HEIC on the page. Photopip looks for a face (the face detector is 232 KB and downloads the first time), otherwise for the most detailed area, and crops the largest 16:9 frame around it.
2. Read the card. The small picture is your original with the cut-away parts darkened. The line under the ratios gives the result; for the 2000 × 1500 sample it reads 2000 × 1125 · JPG · about 904 KB · nothing resized. Click 9:16, 1:1, 4:5 or 4:3 to crop again from the original.
3. To move the frame, click Adjust crop. The canvas shows the whole photo with the frame on it; drag the frame, then click Crop to 16:9 or press Enter. Cancel brings back the crop you had.
4. Click Download JPG. The file name ends in -16x9.jpg.

Nothing is enlarged: a 1280 × 960 photo gives 1280 × 720, not 1920 × 1080. A 4:3 photo loses a strip at the top and bottom to become 16:9; a 3:2 photo loses less. A vertical photo cropped to 16:9 keeps only a strip of it, so pick 9:16 for it. The card always saves a JPG. To keep a transparent background, close the card with ✕ and choose File > Export > Quick Export as PNG.

Is the crop taken from the middle?

Only when there is nothing to aim at. With faces, the frame holds all of them and puts them about 40% of the way down. Without a face, it moves to the most detailed part of the photo, which can be busy background rather than the thing you care about; click Adjust crop and move it. The card says which one it used: "Framed on the face" or "Framed on the most detailed area".

How do I get exactly 1920 × 1080?

Crop to 16:9 here, close the card with ✕, choose Image > Image Size... and type 1920 for the width. A photo narrower than 1920 px is enlarged that way and looks softer.

Does cropping lower the quality?

Cropping by ratio cuts pixels away and resizes nothing. The download is a JPG written once at quality 92. For a copy without JPG compression, close the card with ✕ and choose File > Export > Quick Export as PNG.

What about 3:2 or 5:4?

Close the card with ✕ and press Ctrl+Z (Windows) or Command+Z (macOS) to undo the crop; on a phone, tap the undo arrow at the top. Select the Crop Tool, choose 2:3 (4:6) or 4:5 (8:10) in the options bar and click the swap button between the two numbers to turn it on its side. Drag the frame and press Enter.

Updated 2026-10-24

More toolsCrop imageResize imageCompress image