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Circle Crop Image

Turn any photo into a circle, transparent background or solid fill. Download as PNG. Nothing is uploaded.

How Circle crop image works

Image Circle Crop cuts your photo into a perfect circle with a transparent background and exports the result as a PNG. The circle is always the largest one that fits centered in your image; you choose whether the corners outside it stay transparent or get filled with white or black, then download the clipped output. The entire operation runs in Canvas inside your browser; the image bytes stay on your device from start to finish.

Circle-cropped images are widely used for profile pictures, avatars and team-member portraits on websites and applications. PNG is the correct output format here because it supports the alpha channel needed for the transparent corners outside the circle. The exported file drops straight into design tools, CMS media libraries or social profile upload forms.

Written by Bastien Sulyan

How to use Circle crop image, step by step

  1. Drop your image onto the upload area or click to open the file picker.
  2. Choose the background for the corners outside the circle: transparent, white or black.
  3. Preview the result with the transparent corners shown as a checkerboard pattern.
  4. Click Crop to apply the circular mask.
  5. Click Download to save the PNG with transparency to your device.

Common use cases

  • A community manager prepares a square headshot for a company LinkedIn profile that requires a circle-cropped avatar.
  • A web designer creates circular team portraits for an About page without opening a dedicated editing application.
  • A user formats a product logo photo as a circle to match the rounded image style of an e-commerce marketplace profile.
  • A developer generates test avatar images in circular PNG format to populate a UI prototype quickly.

Frequently asked questions

Why is the output format PNG and not JPEG?

JPEG does not support transparency. The area outside the circle must be transparent for the circle shape to work in any context where the background varies. PNG stores an alpha channel, so the corners are transparent in the exported file.

Can I adjust the size of the circle relative to the image?

No. The circle is always the largest one that fits centered in the image; its size cannot be adjusted. To crop tightly around a face or object, reframe the photo first with the Image Crop tool, which lets you drag and resize a rectangular selection, or scale it down with the Image Resize tool, then apply the circle crop to the result.

Does the tool upload my image to apply the circular mask?

No. The circular clip is applied by drawing the image onto a Canvas with a clip path set to an arc. The operation happens entirely inside the browser tab. No image data is sent to any server.

Can I crop to an oval or ellipse instead of a perfect circle?

This tool produces a perfect circle only. For elliptical crops or other shapes, a full image editing tool is needed.

What happens to the image quality during the circle crop?

The pixels within the circle are preserved at their original resolution. The output PNG matches the pixel dimensions of the cropped area. No re-encoding of the image content occurs inside the circle; only the alpha channel is modified to apply the circular mask.