Crop an image to the given rectangle

# imagecrop

(PHP 5 >= 5.5.0, PHP 7, PHP 8)

imagecrop — Crop an image to the given rectangle

### Description

imagecrop(GdImage `$image`, array `$rectangle`): GdImage|false

Crops an image to the given rectangular area and returns the resulting image. The given `image` is not modified.

### Parameters

`image`

  A GdImage object, returned by one of the image creation functions, such as imagecreatetruecolor().

`rectangle`

  The cropping rectangle as array with keys `x`, `y`, `width` and `height`.

### Return Values

Return cropped image object on success or `false` on failure.

### Changelog

Version | Description
--- | ---
8.0.0 | `image` expects a GdImage instance now; previously, a valid `gd` resource was expected.
8.0.0 | On success, this function returns a GDImage instance now; previously, a resource was returned.

### Examples

Example #1 imagecrop() example

This example shows how to crop an image to a square area.

`<?php
$im = imagecreatefrompng('example.png');
$size = min(imagesx($im), imagesy($im));
$im2 = imagecrop($im, ['x' => 0, 'y' => 0, 'width' => $size, 'height' => $size]);
if ($im2 !== FALSE) {
imagepng($im2, 'example-cropped.png');
}
?>`

### See Also

- imagecropauto() - Crop an image automatically using one of the available modes

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