To split an image into 2, drop your file into the splitter above. It cuts down the middle by default and gives you a left half and a right half. One toggle switches to a horizontal cut for a top and bottom half. Download both as PNG, JPG or WebP. Nothing is uploaded.
Drop an image here
or , or paste with Ctrl+V
JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP and AVIF, up to 50 MB.
Drag any line to move a cut. Tab to a line and use the arrow keys to nudge it one pixel, or hold shift for ten.
Vertical cuts give side-by-side pieces. Horizontal cuts stack them.
The tool picks the rows and columns that keep the pieces closest to square.
A shared strip on each seam, so the sheets can be trimmed and taped.
Each piece is resized to the size this page targets before it is saved.
Your image never leaves your device. Splitting runs in your browser with the Canvas API.
| Pieces | 2, in 1 row of 2 |
|---|---|
| Cut lines | 1 vertical, 0 horizontal |
| Pieces from a 1080 × 1080 Instagram square | 540 × 1080 px |
| Pieces from a 1080 × 1350 portrait | 540 × 1350 px |
| Pieces from a 4000 × 3000 phone photo | 2000 × 3000 px |
| Pieces from a 1920 × 1080 screenshot | 960 × 1080 px |
| Other arrangement of a 4000 × 3000 photo | 2 × 1 gives 4000 × 1500 px |
Two pieces is the split people reach for most, and it is almost never about grids.
You are separating two people who stood side by side. You are pulling a scanned book spread apart at the gutter. You are cutting a wide screenshot so each half stays readable on a phone. The direction of the cut matters more than the count.
The tool starts with a vertical cut, one row and two columns, so you get a left half and a right half. One click flips it to two rows and one column for a top half and a bottom half. A 1600 × 1200 photo cut vertically gives you two 800 × 1200 px halves. Cut the same photo horizontally and you get two 1600 × 600 px halves instead.
The cut line is draggable. An exact 50/50 split is rarely what a photo wants: the gutter of a scanned book sits off centre, and faces have a habit of sitting right where the line lands. Drag the line with the mouse, or nudge it with the arrow keys, and the preview redraws before you export anything.
All of it runs in your browser using the Canvas API. The page reads your file, cuts it on a canvas and hands back the pieces as downloads. Your image never leaves your device, so a private photo stays private and a large scan never has to travel.
A photo of two people side by side becomes two portraits. Drag the cut line so it falls in the gap between them rather than at the exact centre, then export. This is the reason most people search for a two-way split, and it is why a fixed 50/50 cut usually fails on the first try.
Flatbed scans of a two-page spread come out as one wide file with a shadow down the middle. Cut it into left and right pages so each one can be read, filed or printed on its own. The gutter is almost never at the halfway point, so move the line to sit in the shadow.
A 1920 × 1080 screenshot of a spreadsheet or dashboard shrinks to nothing in a chat window. Cut it horizontally into two 1920 × 540 px halves and send them in order, and the text stays legible. Export as PNG so the text edges stay sharp.
A diptych is two panels of one picture hung side by side with a small gap. Split at 1:1 rather than by eye so both frames get the same pixel width, then send each half to the printer at full resolution. A wide photo works better than a square one here.
Drop your image into the splitter on this page. It is already set to one row and two columns, so you get a left half and a right half straight away. Adjust the cut line if you want, pick an output format, then download the halves individually or as a ZIP.
Yes. Use the axis toggle to switch the preset from one row by two columns to two rows by one column. The cut line turns horizontal and you get a top half and a bottom half. The same draggable line and the same export options apply either way.
Splitting to PNG or WebP lossless keeps every pixel exactly as it was. Splitting to JPG re-encodes each half once at quality 92, which is visually hard to tell apart from the original. No half is ever scaled down, so each one keeps the resolution it had inside the source file.
A 1001 pixel wide image cannot split into two equal halves, so the first half takes 500 pixels and the second takes 501. The remainder always goes to the last piece. No pixel is dropped, duplicated or resampled, and the two halves rejoin exactly if you ever put them back together.
Yes. The page works in mobile Safari and Chrome, and the cut line responds to touch. Tap to pick a photo from your camera roll, drag the line, then download. iPhone photos saved as HEIC need converting first: Settings, Camera, Formats, Most Compatible makes new photos JPG.
JPG, PNG, WebP, BMP, AVIF and the first frame of a GIF. Files up to 50 MB are handled in the browser. Output is PNG, JPG or WebP, and you pick which one before you download. Animated GIFs that need every frame belong in the GIF splitter instead.
The file ceiling is 50 MB. Very large sources are handled one tile at a time rather than all at once, so a 40 megapixel scan splits without the browser running out of memory. Anything past roughly 60 megapixels shows a warning rather than failing silently.