Xatools by 3men2

Tools for Xat

@Marv (1997)
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Crop an animated GIF

Image editor

Make any photo square, remove one-colour backgrounds and borders, or crop images and animated GIFs into shapes (heart, star, circle…). Everything is processed in your browser: nothing is uploaded to any server.

Borderless image

Automatic two-step process: the image is made square by padding it with a white border and, at the same time, a version with that border removed (transparent) is generated. Only the colour touching the edges is removed; the inside is untouched even if it contains white.

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If some border remains, raise the tolerance; if it eats into the image, lower it.

Load an image to start.

With borders (square)

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Without borders (transparent)

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Square image

Turn a rectangular image into a square without distorting it: blurred background, solid colour, stretched or cropped. Ideal for xat avatars, profiles and thumbnails.

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Load an image to start.

Preview

The preview is the real result at the chosen output size. Rescaling uses step-down reduction so it does not look blurry or pixelated.

Upload the GIF, pick a shape or a crop rectangle and download a new GIF with the animation intact and a transparent background. The GIF is decoded frame by frame and re-encoded with the best possible palette; you can also export a PNG strip with every frame.

Frequently asked questions

Is the animation kept?+

Yes. Each frame is cropped separately and the original timings are preserved.

Does it lose quality?+

If the GIF fits in 256 colours it is re-encoded losslessly; otherwise an optimised palette with dithering is used.

Can I crop as a heart or circle?+

Yes: the cutter has 17 shapes (circle, heart, star, cloud, hexagon, moon, bolt…).

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