Cut a round picture out of any photo
A round crop is what profile pictures, team pages and logo badges need. This page opens the cropper set up for it: a square area and a circle cut-out, saved as PNG.
- Upload one or more pictures (JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF and more, or a ZIP of a folder).
- Move the square over the face or object you want in the circle. For a batch, the same part of each picture is used.
- Click Crop. Everything outside the circle becomes transparent.
Why the result is a PNG
A circle needs corners that are see-through, and JPEG has no transparency. The result is therefore saved as PNG, which keeps the transparent corners on any background. If you really need a JPEG, choose JPEG under “Save as” and set a background colour: the corners are then filled with that colour instead, which works well when you know the page colour it will sit on.
The edge of the circle is smoothed (anti-aliased), so it doesn't look jagged, even on small pictures.
Tips
- A perfect circle needs a square. With “Exact shape” left on square, the cut-out is always round. Pick another shape, such as 3:2, and you get an oval instead.
- Make it small enough. Profile pictures are usually shown at a few hundred pixels. Under “More options”, set “Then shrink to” to 400 or 512 to get a smaller file.
- Animated pictures stay animated. A GIF, animated WebP or APNG is cut to a circle frame by frame. GIF only knows fully see-through or solid pixels, so its circle edge is not smoothed.
- Camera photos are turned upright first, so the circle lands where you placed it.
More about what this tool reads and writes: Image Cropper.