Crop and straighten

Cut away what does not belong, set the horizon level, turn the photo the right way and give it the size it needs — in one panel. Press R.

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In the app: ? in the editor, or F1, opens this page while Crop is open.
Crop and rotate: the frame over the whole photo, and the panel with shape, straighten, turn and size

Cropping

The whole photo is shown with a frame over it. Drag a corner, or the middle of an edge, to move that side; drag inside to move the frame. While you drag, lines in thirds help place what matters; outside the frame is dimmed. Enter leaves cropping, and the photo is shown cropped.

Shape keeps the frame to a shape while you drag:

ShapeGood for
FreeAny shape.
OriginalThe photo's own shape, only smaller.
1:1A square: profile pictures, a grid of posts.
4:5The tallest a photo can be in a feed.
3:2The shape of most cameras' photos and of prints 10 × 15.
16:9A screen, a wallpaper, a video's frame.
9:16A phone's screen: stories and reels.

Straighten

Drag Angle until the horizon or a wall is level. The corners the turn would leave empty are cut off by themselves, so there is never a white wedge.

Turn and mirror

Left and Right turn the photo a quarter; Mirror flips it left to right, Upside down top to bottom.

Size

As it is, a long side, in pixels, or a percent of it. Under the choices, what the photo becomes: 4000 × 2665 → 2048 × 1365 · 2.8 MP. Made smaller, it gets a light sharpening after it, as Settings say.