What Is a Perspective Crop?
A perspective crop straightens things that were photographed at an angle. A normal crop can only cut a straight rectangle out of a picture: if the document, whiteboard or sign in the photo is skewed, it stays skewed. This perspective crop tool works differently. Drag the four corners of a frame onto the four corners of the subject, and the image inside is remapped so the slanted shape becomes a perfectly straight rectangle. It is the same idea as Photoshop's Perspective Crop tool, free, online, and running entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, so contracts, IDs and private notes never leave your device. If you want the opposite, warping a whole image by its corners instead of extracting a straightened region, use the Perspective Tool.
How to Use the Perspective Crop Tool Online
Add a photo and a blue frame with four corner handles appears over it. Drag each handle exactly onto a corner of what you want straightened. The thirds grid inside the frame helps with alignment, and the corrected preview in the panel updates live while you drag, so you see the flattened result before downloading anything. Turn on the magnifier and a zoom loupe shows the pixels under your finger or cursor while you place each corner. When the frame hugs the subject, hit download: the tool computes the perspective transform and flattens the frame into a true rectangle.
Turn Photos of Documents into Scans
The most common perspective crop job is paper photographed with a phone. Contracts, receipts, book pages, notes, business cards and whiteboards all come out of the camera skewed and keystoned. Frame the page with the four corners and the result looks like it went through a scanner: straight edges, rectangular, ready for a PDF or an email. The output keeps the region's real size from the photo, and smooth bilinear resampling keeps text readable instead of jagged.
Fix Perspective in Any Photo
Paper is only the start. Straighten framed paintings and posters photographed from the side, storefront signs, screens and slides captured during a talk, license plates, product boxes, tiles and building facades for design reference. Anywhere a flat, rectangular thing was shot at an angle, a perspective crop recovers the head-on view that the camera could not get.
Download the Straightened Image
The corrected image downloads at the frame's full resolution, sized from the real edge lengths of the area you framed, so nothing is needlessly stretched or shrunk. Save it as PNG for documents and text, JPG for small photo files, or WebP for the web. You can also copy the corrected image straight to the clipboard and paste it into a chat, document or email.
More Ways to Crop
Need a different cut? The classic Crop Image tool crops free hand or in fixed ratios like 1:1 and 16:9. Shape croppers cover circle, square, heart, oval, star, diamond, hexagon and triangle cutouts, and the lasso tool cuts along any outline you draw. The full cropper collection shows them all side by side.
Frequently Asked Questions About Perspective Crop
What does a perspective crop do?
It cuts out a four-cornered region of a photo and remaps it into a straight rectangle. Instead of cropping a fixed rectangle, you place all four corners independently on a skewed subject, and the tool then removes the perspective distortion, like looking at the subject head-on.
How do I fix the perspective of a photo online?
Add the photo, then drag the four corner handles onto the corners of the skewed subject, such as a document, sign or screen. The live preview shows the straightened result while you adjust; when it looks right, download it as PNG, JPG or WebP.
Does perspective correction lose quality?
The tool resamples the image with bilinear interpolation at the framed area's real resolution, so quality stays as high as the source allows. Areas that were photographed at a steep angle have fewer real pixels to work from, which is a property of the photo. Shooting less obliquely always helps.
What is the difference between a crop and a perspective crop?
A regular crop cuts a straight rectangle out of the image and changes nothing inside it. A perspective crop takes any four-cornered shape and warps it into a rectangle. It both cuts and straightens, which is exactly what a skewed document or sign needs.
Is this perspective crop tool free and private?
Yes. It is free with no signup or watermark, and the whole correction runs inside your browser. The photo is never uploaded, so documents and private pictures stay on your device.