Image Circle Crop

The tool takes the largest square from the center of your image, with a side equal to the shorter of width and height. It then masks that square with a circle that touches all four edges and makes everything outside the circle transparent.

The crop is centered. For a landscape photo the left and right edges are removed, and for a portrait the top and bottom. If your subject is off center, crop or reframe it first with the Image Crop or Image Aspect Ratio tool.

The result is a square whose side equals the shorter side of your image. A 1200 by 800 photo becomes an 800 by 800 PNG with a circle of 800 pixels in diameter.

Transparent corners let the circle sit on any page color without a visible box. The result is a PNG because JPEG cannot store transparency.

Yes. The circular mask is anti-aliased, so the edge pixels are partly transparent and the circle looks smooth instead of stepped, even at small avatar sizes.

Yes. Most platforms accept PNG uploads. Many of them also crop to a circle themselves, but a pre-cropped circle gives you control over the framing and works in places that show the image as is, such as email signatures.

Run the result through the Image Flatten tool to fill the transparent corners with any color, or through the Image Padding tool to add transparent or colored space around the circle.

JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, TIFF and AVIF images up to 5 MB are supported. Animated files use their first frame.

Uploads can be up to 5 MB, and images larger than 4000 pixels on a side are scaled to fit 4000 pixels before cropping. The circle therefore has a diameter of at most 4000 pixels.

Crop the circle first, then use the Image Resize tool to scale the square PNG to the size you need, such as 256 by 256 pixels. Transparency is kept when you resize.