Crop images and erase parts of them, right in your browser

Most collages need a little surgery. The photo is great, but there's a stranger at the edge, a price tag in the corner, or just too much empty sky. PasteCollage now has a built-in image editor with crop and eraser tools, so you can fix a photo without leaving your canvas: no Photoshop, no separate app, no export-edit-reimport loop.

How to open the editor

1. Add an image to your canvas (paste a URL, upload a file, or press Ctrl+V / ⌘V).
2. Select it and choose Edit, the pencil button in the image toolbar.
3. The image opens full-screen with two tools: Crop and Erase.

One Apply button commits whatever you changed: the crop, the erased areas, or both at once.

Crop: trim to exactly what you want

Drag the corners and edges of the frame, or snap to a preset ratio: 1:1 for a square grid, 4:3, 16:9, or 9:16 for a phone-shaped panel. Free mode lets you frame anything.

The crop is non-destructive. PasteCollage keeps the full original, so you can reopen the editor any time, loosen the frame, and get back pixels you cropped away. Nothing is lost until you say so.

Erase: paint away what shouldn't be there

Switch to the Erase tab and simply paint over the parts you want gone. Erased areas become transparent, so whatever sits behind the image on your collage shows through.

• Adjust the brush size for wide sweeps or fine edges.
• Undo and redo individual strokes while you work.
• A checkerboard pattern shows exactly what's transparent before you apply.

It works with your finger on a phone or tablet too, and pairs naturally with cropping: trim the photo first, then clean up the edges in the same session.

Eraser or background removal?

They solve different problems. AI background removal is the fast path when you want the subject cleanly lifted from the whole background. The eraser is for precision and control: removing one object, softening one edge, or erasing a region the AI would never guess you wanted gone. A common combo is to let the AI cut the background, then erase the small bits it kept.

A few things worth knowing

• Both tools are completely free, on every plan.
• Erasing bakes into the image when you apply, but the canvas-level undo (Ctrl+Z / ⌘Z) restores the original if you change your mind.
• Everything happens locally in your browser. Your photo never leaves your machine for cropping or erasing.

Ready to try it? Open the collage editor, drop in a photo, and hit the pencil. Your cropped and cleaned-up image exports with the rest of your collage or moodboard as PNG or PDF.