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Smart crop image

A square or a 16:9 that keeps the person, the product or the dog — the crop window centres on the subject, not the middle.

More free conversions, where you upload. The Fylane extension does the same work inside any upload form, on its own free share every day.Add to Chrome

How to smart crop image

  1. Drop the image.
  2. Pick the shape.
  3. Press Smart crop and download.

What happens to your file

A saliency model looks at the whole picture and scores where the eye goes — a face, a product, the brightest contrast. The largest window of your ratio is placed so that region stays inside it, then cut at the original pixel density. Nothing is scaled.

Plain Crop image cuts from the centre, which is right when the subject is in the middle and wrong when it is not. This page is for the other case: a person standing at the edge of a group photo, a product photographed off-centre, a landscape whose interest is in one corner.

When the model finds nothing it is sure about it falls back to the centre, so the result is never worse than an ordinary crop.

Questions

How does it know what the subject is?

A saliency model — the same kind that powers "auto-crop" in photo apps — predicts where a person would look first. It finds faces, animals and high-contrast objects reliably; on a flat texture with no subject it centres.

Can I move the crop myself?

Yes — use Crop by eye to drag the box exactly where you want it. This page is for doing hundreds without dragging any of them.

Is the image kept?

Deleted after 24 hours; the result after 7 days. Nobody looks at either.

Do it once, not on every form

A form that wants a square JPEG under 240 KB says so on the page. The Fylane extension reads that, fits your photo to it, and puts it in the field — without you working out what 240 KB looks like.

And it keeps the result. The next application that asks for a résumé, a cover letter and a photo fills all three from one tap, each one refitted to what that site accepts.

Your files stay in the browser, encrypted, on your machine. Nothing is uploaded to keep them and nothing is sent anywhere to fill a form.

Filmed from the extension: a phone portrait against a form that takes only a square JPEG under 240 KB.

Add to Chrome — freeWhat it does

Do this in code

curl -X POST https://api.fylane.dev/v1/jobs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FYLANE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "file_id": "<file id>",
    "operation": "image.smart-crop",
    "options": {
      "aspect": "1:1",
      "format": "webp"
    }
  }'

The same operation, image.smart-crop — Subject-aware crop: the saliency model finds the subject, the window centres on it. Upload first with the quickstart; every option is on the operations page. 500 free credits a month, then $5 per thousand.