diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5741c0a..31c225e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 <br>
 [![NPM](https://nodei.co/npm/trim-canvas.png?downloads=true&downloadRank=true&stars=true)](https://npmjs.org/package/trim-canvas)
 
-A tiny (< 100 LoC) library for trimming whitespace from a `canvas` element with no dependencies.
+A tiny (~100 LoC) library for trimming whitespace from a `canvas` element with no dependencies.
 
 ## Installation
 
@@ -35,9 +35,29 @@ trimCanvas(canvas)
 ```
 
 If you don't want to mess with your existing canvas, then simply clone the canvas element beforehand.
+`trim-canvas` v0.2+ has built-in support for cloning:
+
+```javascript
+const newTrimmedCanvas = trimCanvas(canvas, {clone: true})
+```
+
+Can view the [full list of options](#API) below.
 
 `trim-canvas` returns the canvas element for easy chaining.
 
+### API
+
+#### `trimCanvas(canvas, options)`
+
+- arguments
+  - **canvas** *Canvas object* The canvas to be trimmed.
+  - **options** *object* Optional arguments.
+    - **clone** *bool* Whether to clone the canvas before trimming (default: `false`).
+    - **createCanvas** *function* A custom function to create a Canvas (defaults to DOM implementation).
+      Supports [`node-canvas`'s `createCanvas`](https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas#createcanvas).
+
+- returns the trimmed canvas (original or cloned)
+
 ## Example
 
 Can see how `trim-canvas` is used inside of `react-signature-canvas` [here](https://github.com/agilgur5/react-signature-canvas/blob/310bff81813509a4035bedfe50d76e7045a880cb/src/index.js#L53-L64).
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 8625e51..9aff454 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "trim-canvas",
-  "version": "0.1.2",
+  "version": "0.2.0",
   "description": "A tiny library for trimming whitespace from a canvas element",
   "main": "build/index.js",
   "files": [
diff --git a/src/index.js b/src/index.js
index ab1fd2d..43dbe55 100644
--- a/src/index.js
+++ b/src/index.js
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-export default function trimCanvas (canvas) {
+export default function trimCanvas (canvas, options = {}) {
+  const {clone} = options
+  let {createCanvas = createCanvasDOM} = options // support node-canvas, etc
+
   const context = canvas.getContext('2d')
 
   const imgWidth = canvas.width
@@ -21,6 +24,15 @@ export default function trimCanvas (canvas) {
   const trimmedData = context.getImageData(cropLeft, cropTop, cropXDiff,
     cropYDiff)
 
+  // early return if cloning
+  if (clone) {
+    const copy = createCanvas()
+    copy.width = cropXDiff
+    copy.height = cropYDiff
+    copy.getContext('2d').putImageData(trimmedData, 0, 0)
+    return copy
+  }
+
   // set the trimmed width and height
   canvas.width = cropXDiff
   canvas.height = cropYDiff
@@ -85,3 +97,7 @@ function scanX (fromLeft, imgWidth, imgHeight, imgData) {
   // the whole image is white already
   return null
 }
+
+function createCanvasDOM () {
+  return document.createElement('canvas')
+}