To split an image into 4, drop your file into the splitter above. It starts as a 2 by 2 grid, giving four quadrants. Switch to 1 by 4 for a row of four panels or 4 by 1 for a stack. Download all four as a ZIP. The split happens in your browser, not on a server.
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 | 4, in 2 rows of 2 |
|---|---|
| Cut lines | 1 vertical, 1 horizontal |
| Pieces from a 1080 × 1080 Instagram square | 540 × 540 px |
| Pieces from a 1080 × 1350 portrait | 540 × 675 px |
| Pieces from a 4000 × 3000 phone photo | 2000 × 1500 px |
| Pieces from a 1920 × 1080 screenshot | 960 × 540 px |
| Other arrangements of a 4000 × 3000 photo | 1 × 4 gives 1000 × 3000 px; 4 × 1 gives 4000 × 750 px |
Four is the count where the arrangement changes the answer. Four quadrants, four panels in a row and four stacked strips are all four pieces, and they get used for completely different things.
The default here is 2 by 2. A 4000 × 3000 photo becomes four 2000 × 1500 px quadrants, each with the same aspect ratio as the original. That is the shape you want for a four-sheet print, for splitting a scan that holds four photos, or for a quartered texture.
One by four is the carousel and banner shape. The same 4000 × 3000 photo cut into a row gives four 1000 × 3000 px panels, tall and narrow, which is what a swipeable post wants. Four by one gives four wide strips, which is how a long infographic gets broken up.
The cut lines are draggable in both directions, so the four pieces do not have to be identical. Move the vertical line to keep two people in separate quadrants. Move the horizontal one so a caption stays with the picture it belongs to. Reset to equal is one click away when you overdo it.
Everything is processed by the Canvas API inside this page, so your file never leaves your device, there is no queue, and no watermark ends up on the output.
A 2 by 2 split is the small end of poster printing. Each quadrant prints on its own sheet and the four tape together into a picture twice as wide and twice as tall as one page. For proper overlap, cut marks and sheet counts, use the print splitter instead of exporting four flat images.
Scanning four prints on a flatbed at once saves time and produces one file with four pictures in it. A 2 by 2 split turns that back into four separate images. Drag the cut lines so each photo sits inside its own quadrant, then trim the white borders in your usual editor.
Switch to 1 by 4 and a wide banner becomes four swipeable panels. Turn on 4:5 padding and each panel lands on a 1080 × 1350 px canvas, which stops the platform cropping into your artwork. Post them left to right so the picture reads correctly as people swipe.
Game engines and web maps behave better with several medium images than one enormous one. A 2 by 2 split halves the width and height of each piece, which cuts the memory each tile needs to four times less. If you need a fixed pixel size per tile rather than a fixed count, split by tile size.
Drop your file into the splitter on this page. The 2 by 2 preset cuts it into four quadrants of equal size the moment the preview loads. Choose an output format, then download the four files one by one or grab them all in a single ZIP. No account and no upload is involved.
All three produce four files. 2 by 2 is two rows and two columns, so you get quadrants shaped like the original. 1 by 4 is one row and four columns, giving tall narrow panels side by side. 4 by 1 is four rows and one column, giving wide strips stacked top to bottom.
Use the print splitter rather than a plain 2 by 2 cut. It scales your picture to the physical size you ask for, lays it across sheets of the paper you choose, and adds overlap and cut marks so the pages line up when you tape them. The sheet count is shown before you export.
Row major, top row first. Files are named with the row and column in them, so r1c1 is top left, r1c2 is top right, r2c1 is bottom left and r2c2 is bottom right. A sequential number is included too, which is the order you would post or assemble them in.
Yes. Both cut lines are draggable, so you can put more of the picture in one quadrant than another. The preview updates as you drag and a reset button puts the lines back to equal quarters. Keyboard arrows nudge a selected line one pixel at a time for fine adjustment.
Each quarter has half the width and half the height of the source, so it holds a quarter of the pixels. Nothing is scaled or resampled, so those pixels are the same ones that were in the original. A 4000 × 3000 photo gives four 2000 × 1500 px quadrants at full source detail.