Crop TIF

How to Crop TIF / TIFF Images Online

1. Choose Your TIF Files: Drag and drop TIF images onto the page or click "Choose TIFF files" — up to 50 at once. The first photo opens in the editor and the rest line up as thumbnails below it; with two or more photos open, "Add more" adds files to the same batch.
2. Set the Crop: In Crop, pick an "Aspect ratio" ("Free", "Original", 1:1, 4:3, 16:9 and more) or a platform size, then drag the box on the photo or type its width and height under "Crop area". "Shape" switches between "Rectangle" and "Circle (avatar)". The crop applies to every photo in the batch.
3. Pick the Output Format (Optional): "Save as" keeps "Same as original" or saves as JPG, PNG, WebP or another format. For JPG, WebP and AVIF output, the "Quality" slider (40–100) trades file size against detail. Resize, Crop, Rotate and Flip all work in the same session, and "Undo" steps back.
4. Download: Click the Download button, which names the output format (for example "Download PNG"), for one photo, or "Download all (.zip)" for a batch — "Download one by one" saves the files separately. The editor opens TIF files right in your browser whenever your browser can decode them, so those files are not uploaded. A file it can't decode is either processed on our servers and deleted automatically afterward — the editor says so before you download — or skipped with a note. No sign-up, no watermark.

Why Crop TIF / TIFF Images?

TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) is the format of choice for print prepress, archival scanning, scientific imaging, GIS rasters, and medical workflows. It was published by Aldus Corporation in 1986, with the current TIFF 6.0 specification dating from 1992; Adobe inherited the format when it acquired Aldus in 1994. The format's strengths — lossless compression, 16-bit-per-channel color, multi-page containers, embedded ICC profiles, and rich metadata — make TIFFs large by nature. A single 600 DPI letter-size scan can land at 80-100 MB uncompressed, and a 45-megapixel photo TIFF routinely exceeds 250 MB. Cropping trims the file to the region you actually need, often shaving the largest portion of the size before any compression even runs.

• Clean up flatbed-scanner output — Scanners include a few millimeters of bed around the document, plus black borders when the lid is up. Cropping removes that frame in one pass and leaves the document edges square for OCR or PDF packaging.
• Isolate a region of interest in medical or microscopy TIFFs — Pathology slide scanners and CT / MRI exporters output multi-gigabyte 16-bit TIFFs. Cropping to the relevant tissue or anatomy lets you share a focused file with a colleague instead of shipping the whole slide.
• Trim print artwork to bleed and crop marks — Press-ready TIFFs include 0.125 in (1/8 in / 3.175 mm) of bleed plus crop marks at each corner. Cropping out the marks after proofing leaves a clean trim-size deliverable for downstream layout.
• Extract a tile from a GeoTIFF or satellite raster — GIS workflows often need a small bounding box from a much larger orthophoto or DEM. Cropping yields a smaller image of just that area; note that this editor does not carry GeoTIFF georeferencing tags into the saved file, so use GDAL or QGIS when the clip must stay georeferenced.
• Standardize photo submissions for a publication — Magazines, stock agencies, and book printers require TIFF deliverables but expect a specific aspect ratio. Locking the crop to 3:2, 4:5, or square and re-applying the same numbers per file gives consistent dimensions across a large photo set.
• Keep the TIFF wrapper your archival pipeline expects — Document management systems (DocuWare, M-Files, FileNet, Alfresco) ingest TIFF natively. Cropping to TIFF (rather than re-saving to JPEG) preserves the workflow's compatibility and lossless storage (an edited multi-page TIFF keeps only its first page).

TIF vs TIFF — Same Format, Different Extension

Both extensions are accepted on this page. When the output stays TIFF, the file keeps your source's spelling (a .tif stays .tif); renaming .tif to .tiff (or vice versa) does not change a single byte of the image.

Crop Aspect Ratio Quick Guide

TIFF Compression Options Quick Guide

This editor has no compression-type setting: it always writes lossless Deflate. The guide below explains the TIFF compression types you may meet in source files and in other tools. If the output must use a specific one, run the result through Compress TIFF.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does cropping a TIFF lose any image quality?

Not for a standard 8-bit RGB or greyscale TIFF — cropping only discards pixels outside the rectangle you select, no resampling happens to the retained area, and the saved TIFF is always compressed losslessly (Deflate), so the kept pixels are bit-identical to the original. There is no compression choice. The exceptions, each noted when the file opens: a 16-bit TIFF is saved as 8-bit, a CMYK TIFF is saved as RGB, and a wide-gamut profile (Adobe RGB, ProPhoto) is converted to sRGB.

Can I crop both.tif and.tiff files? Are they actually different?

Both extensions are accepted, and they refer to the same Tagged Image File Format. The shorter .tif is a holdover from DOS / Windows 8.3 filename limits; .tiff is the longer modern variant. Adobe Photoshop defaults to .tif, while many GIS and scientific tools prefer .tiff. Renaming one to the other changes nothing about the file's contents.

Will the output keep my multi-page TIFF as a single file?

The editor works on the first page of a multi-page TIFF. Downloaded without an edit, the file is your original with every page; once you crop it, the saved TIFF holds the first page only, and the editor says so as soon as the file opens ("This TIFF has N pages: an edit here keeps only the first page"). To crop every page, split the file into single-page TIFFs first (IrfanView, XnView or ImageMagick magick input.tif page-%d.tif), crop each, and re-merge.

Will GeoTIFF georeferencing survive the crop?

No. The TIFF this editor writes is a fresh baseline file that keeps the print resolution (DPI) but not the GeoTIFF tags, so QGIS, ArcGIS Pro or GDAL will open the crop as an image without coordinates. For a georeferenced clip, crop with GDAL (gdal_translate -srcwin) or QGIS, which also update the upper-left origin for the new extent.

Can I crop to exact pixel coordinates instead of dragging?

Partly. Width and Height take typed pixel values for pixel-perfect sizing, useful when you have a known crop box from a script or a print-shop spec sheet — but there's no X/Y position field, so placing that box at a specific offset is still done by dragging it into position on the canvas. Combine with an aspect-ratio lock when you need a fixed shape but want to tweak the position interactively.

Does a 16-bit TIFF stay 16-bit after cropping?

No. The editor works in 8 bits per channel, so a 16-bit TIFF is saved as 8-bit, with a note when the file opens; there is no bit-depth setting. 16-bit TIFF stores 65,536 levels per channel — important for color grading, raw conversion, scientific imaging, and HDR pipelines. 8-bit TIFF (256 levels per channel) halves the storage and is fine for final delivery, web preview, and most office document workflows. Reducing bit depth is one-way; keep the 16-bit master and crop a copy.

Can I cap the cropped output at a specific size like 5 MB or 25 MB for email?

Not in this editor — it has no file-size target. Crop first, then run the result through Compress TIFF, which takes a KB or MB target; that is the way to get under Gmail's 25 MB attachment cap or a print vendor's per-asset limit. Saving as JPG with "Save as" also shrinks a photo a lot.

Will EXIF, XMP, ICC profile, and GeoTIFF metadata be preserved?

No. The cropped TIFF keeps its print resolution (DPI), but EXIF camera data, XMP / IPTC keywords and copyright, the ICC color profile (colours are converted to sRGB) and GeoTIFF georeferencing tags are not carried over. Where metadata is part of the asset's value — press archives, legal e-discovery chains of custody, GIS workflows — keep the original next to the crop, or crop with a tool that copies the tags (ExifTool can copy them back afterwards).

What if I want a non-TIFF output after cropping?

If a smaller, web-friendly format is acceptable, convert the TIFF instead: see TIFF to JPG, TIFF to PNG, or TIFF to PDF for those flows. To rotate or resize the TIFF before cropping, see Rotate TIF or Resize TIF. For other crop tools, see Crop JPG or Crop PNG.

Is there a file size or page-count limit?

Most images are processed right in your browser, so the practical limit is how much memory your browser tab can hold rather than a fixed per-file cap. 200-500 MB TIFFs typically crop without issue on a modern desktop; multi-gigabyte GIS rasters or gigapixel pathology slides can run into your tab's memory limit and are better handled with a desktop GIS or imaging tool first. The editor batches up to 50 files at once, so file count isn't the limiting factor either; a multi-page TIFF opens on its first page, and an edited file keeps only that page.