Circle Crop Image
Crop a photo or logo into a circle. Drag and zoom to frame it, add a background color or a border ring, and save a round PNG with transparent corners at the size you need. Everything runs in your browser, so your images are never uploaded.
Drag and drop an image here, or
JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, and more, up to 50 MB. You can also paste an image with Ctrl+V (Cmd+V on a Mac). Nothing is uploaded.
What circle cropping an image does
Every image file is a rectangle, so a round image is really a square with its corners made transparent. Circle cropping picks a square area of your image, keeps the circle inside it, and clears everything outside the circle.
The result looks round on any background, the same way profile pictures look on social media. If you save as JPG, which cannot store transparency, the corners are filled with a solid color instead.
Why use our circle crop tool
- ·Free. No signup, no watermark, no daily limit.
- ·No upload. Your photos are cropped on your own device and never sent to a server.
- ·Fit a whole logo. Zoom out past the edges of the image so nothing gets cut off, and fill the space with a color.
- ·Borders and backgrounds. Add a colored ring or a solid or gradient background without opening another editor.
- ·See it small. Live previews show how the picture looks at profile picture sizes on light and dark backgrounds.
How to crop an image into a circle
- 1
Add your image
Drag a photo onto the box, click to pick one, or paste an image with Ctrl+V (Cmd+V on a Mac). JPG, PNG, WebP, and HEIC all work. Nothing is uploaded.
- 2
Frame the circle
Drag the photo to move it inside the circle. Zoom with the slider, your mouse wheel, or by pinching on a phone. Fill circle and Fit whole image jump straight to the two most common framings.
- 3
Add a background or border
Both are optional. The background shows behind the image, which is useful when you zoom out or the image has transparent parts. The border draws a ring around the edge in any color.
- 4
Download the round image
Pick a size and a format and click Download. PNG and WebP keep the corners transparent. The button shows the exact size you will get.
Circle crop options
- ·Zoom. At 1.00× the circle is as wide as the short side of your image. Zoom in up to 10× to crop a face out of a group photo, or zoom out until the whole image sits inside the circle with room around it.
- ·Fill circle and Fit whole image. Fill circle centers the largest circle that fits inside the image, with no empty space. Fit whole image grows the circle until no part of the image is cut off, leaving room for the border if you have one.
- ·Background. None keeps it transparent. White, black, a custom color, or a gradient fills the circle behind the image. You see it when you zoom out or when the image has transparent parts, such as a photo with its background removed.
- ·Border. A ring up to 15% of the circle's width, drawn just inside the edge. The readout shows its width in pixels at the size you are saving.
- ·Size. Full size keeps every pixel the circle covers, up to 8192 px. The other choices save a square of exactly that many pixels on each side.
- ·Save as. PNG keeps the corners transparent with no loss in quality. WebP also keeps them transparent in a smaller file. JPG fills the corners with the color you pick. JPG and WebP have a quality slider.
- ·Keyboard. Click the photo, then use the arrow keys to move it (hold Shift to move faster) and the + and - keys to zoom.
Which size to save a circle profile picture at
| Size | Good for |
|---|---|
| 128 × 128 px | Small icons, chat avatars, and forum pictures |
| 256 × 256 px | Email signatures and website comment avatars |
| 400 × 400 px | The size X (Twitter) and LinkedIn recommend for profile photos |
| 512 × 512 px | A safe choice for most profile picture uploads |
| 1024 × 1024 px | Team pages, slides, and anything shown large or printed small |
If a site asks for a size that is not listed, save at Full size or 1024 and let the site shrink it. Saving larger than the circle covers in the original only enlarges the image, so the tool warns you when that happens.
Why the corners of a circle crop turn black or white
A round PNG or WebP is a square whose corners are transparent. Not every app keeps that transparency. Some image viewers, chat apps, and upload forms that convert images to JPG replace it with black or white, so the circle suddenly has square corners again.
If you know where the image will be shown, save it as JPG and set the corner color to match that page or slide. If the corners only look wrong in one app, the file itself is fine. Try opening it in a browser tab, which always shows transparency correctly.
When to crop an image into a circle
- ·Profile pictures for sites that do not round them. Forums, websites, and some apps show your picture exactly as you upload it. Cropping it into a circle first gives you the round look anywhere.
- ·Team pages, resumes, and email signatures. Round headshots look neat in a row of team members or next to a name. A transparent PNG sits cleanly on any page color.
- ·Logos and icons. Fit whole image plus a background color turns a square or wide logo into a round badge without cutting off its corners.
- ·Slides and documents. Word, Google Docs, and slide apps can crop to a shape, but a ready-made round PNG drops in without extra steps and looks the same in every app.
You do not need a circle crop for Instagram, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, or WhatsApp. They already show profile pictures as circles, so a square upload works. A round PNG is fine there too. On sites that show pictures as squares or rounded squares, the transparent corners take on the page's background color.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I crop an image into a circle?
- Add the image above, drag it until the part you want is inside the circle, and zoom with the slider, mouse wheel, or a pinch. Then click Download. The image is saved as a round PNG with transparent corners.
- How do I make a circle image with a transparent background?
- Leave the background set to None and save as PNG or WebP. Everything outside the circle is transparent, so the image sits cleanly on any color. JPG cannot store transparency, so it fills the corners with a color instead.
- How do I fit a whole logo inside a circle?
- Click Fit whole image. The circle grows until the entire image fits inside it, so no corners are cut off. Pick a background color to fill the empty space around the logo, or zoom out a little more for extra room.
- How do I add a border to a circle crop?
- Move the Border slider and click the round swatch next to it to pick a color. The border is drawn inside the edge of the circle, so it is never cut off. Its width in pixels is shown for the size you are saving.
- Why are the corners of my circle image black or white?
- The corners are transparent in PNG and WebP. Some apps, image viewers, and sites that convert uploads to JPG show transparent areas as black or white. If that happens, save as JPG and choose a corner color that matches where the image will be shown.
- What size should a circle profile picture be?
- 400 × 400 pixels is the size X (Twitter) and LinkedIn recommend, and 512 × 512 or larger works well almost everywhere. Saving larger than you need is fine, since sites shrink the picture when they show it.
- Why does my circle crop look blurry?
- When you zoom in, the circle covers fewer pixels of the original. If you then save at a larger size, the image has to be enlarged, which makes it soft. The tool warns you when this happens. Zoom out a little or pick a smaller size.
- Can I crop a photo into a circle on my phone?
- Yes. The tool works in mobile browsers. Drag with one finger to move the photo and pinch with two to zoom. HEIC photos from an iPhone open too.
- Does the round image keep the photo's details?
- No. The new file does not keep EXIF data such as the date taken, camera model, or GPS location. The photo is turned the right way up before cropping, so it still displays correctly.
- Are my images uploaded?
- No. Your browser does the cropping on your own device, so your images are never sent to a server and nothing is stored anywhere.