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Dynamic Content Delivery Network:Crop images

Last Updated:Apr 18, 2024

You can crop images to remove irrelevant or redundant parts in images, emphasize major parts of images, and adjust the aspect ratio of images. You can add a cropping parameter to a request URL to crop an image in Alibaba Cloud CDN to a specific size.

Note

Parameters

Set the action to crop or circle.

The following table describes the parameters.

Note

If one of the preceding parameters is set to a negative value, the image remains in its original size.

Parameter

Description

Valid value

w

The width of the cropped area.

The default value is 0. The total pixels of the image cannot exceed 16,777,216 pixels.

h

The height of the cropped area.

x

The X coordinate of the cropped area. The default value is the X coordinate of the upper-left corner of the image.

y

The Y coordinate of the cropped area. The default value is the Y coordinate of the upper-left corner of the image.

g

The position of the area that you want to be crop in a 3 by 3 grid. The image is arranged in a 3 by 3 grid, which has 9 tiles. Each tile is positioned by its upper-left corner.

  • nw: upper left

  • north: upper middle

  • ne: upper right

  • west: middle left

  • center: center

  • east: middle right

  • sw: lower left

  • south: lower middle

  • se: lower right

For more information, see the following figure that shows the position of each tile in a 3 by 3 grid.

The following figure shows the position of each tile in a 3 by 3 grid.图片裁剪

Examples

The following table describes how to crop images.

Feature

Description

Example

Cropping in a circle shape

You can specify the radius of a circle to crop an image. The radius cannot exceed half the length of the shorter side of the base image.

http(s)://example.com/image01.png?image_process=circle,200

Cropping in a 3 by 3 grid

An image can be represented by a 3 by 3 grid. You can specify the position of the tile in the grid that you want to crop.

http(s)://example.com/image01.png?image_process=crop,w_200,h_200,g_se

Cropping based on an X and Y coordinate

You can specify the X coordinate, y coordinate, width, and height to crop an image. The X and Y coordinate represents the lower-left corner of the cropped area. The width and height specify the size of the cropped area.

http(s)://example.com/image01.png?image_process=crop,x_10,y_10,w_400,h_200

Centered cropping

You can specify the width and height to crop equally on all four sides at a time.

http(s)://example.com/image01.png?image_process=crop,mid,w_400,h_200