Circle Crop Image
Drag a circular guide over your photo and download a transparent PNG with everything outside the circle removed, ready to drop straight into a profile picture or a round logo mark.
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Most image formats, up to 50 megabytes each Your images never leave your deviceHow to use the Circle Crop Image
- Drop in your photo.
- Drag and resize the circle guide over the part you want to keep.
- Download the circular PNG with a transparent background.
Features
- Transparent PNG output, so the circle drops cleanly onto any background.
- Drag to reposition and resize the circle over any part of your photo.
- Checkerboard preview so you can see exactly what will be transparent.
- Works well for profile pictures, avatars and round logo marks.
What file format should I download for a circular profile picture?
PNG, which is what this tool outputs, since it is the only common format that stores the transparency needed outside the circle. If a platform requires a square upload but displays profile pictures inside its own circular mask, you may not need this tool at all; it is most useful when you need the transparent circle file itself, for a logo or an image placed on a custom background.
When do you actually need a genuinely circular file, not just a circular display?
Most social platforms already mask a square upload into a circle for you, so a plain square crop works fine there. A real transparent circular PNG matters when you are placing the image yourself outside a platform's own system: over a coloured background in a slide deck or a poster, inside a design tool as a layer, or as a round badge or logo mark on a website where nothing else will apply the circular mask automatically.
How do you keep a face properly centred in the circle?
Drag and resize the circle guide itself, rather than the photo, until the eyes sit roughly on its horizontal centre line, with a small amount of headroom above the hair and enough space below the chin that the crop does not feel tight against the jawline. A checkerboard pattern marks everything that will become transparent, so you can see exactly what falls outside the circle before downloading, rather than guessing.
Frequently asked questions
Will the background outside the circle be white or transparent?
Transparent. The PNG output has no background outside the circular crop, so it can sit on any colour behind it.
Can I use this for a company logo mark?
Yes, it works for any source image, not just faces. Position the part you want inside the circle and download.
Does the output stay sharp at small sizes?
Yes, the crop keeps the original resolution inside the circle; resize separately afterward if you need a smaller file.
Can I crop just part of a larger photo into the circle?
Yes, shrink the circle guide and drag it over the specific part of the photo you want, such as just a face in a group photo, rather than the whole frame.
Will the circle crop work on a photo that is not square to begin with?
Yes, any aspect ratio works. The tool fits the circle guide over whatever image you drop in and lets you drag and resize it freely.
Can I download a square version instead of a circle from the same crop?
Not from this tool directly, since it always masks to a circle. Use the regular Image Cropper with the 1:1 ratio preset if you want a square crop of the same photo.
