A circle crop turns a rectangular picture into a round one: a headshot for a team page, an avatar for a slide or email signature, a logo badge for a website. The part outside the disc has to vanish rather than turn white, otherwise the round picture sits inside an ugly white square on any coloured background.
Here the frame is locked to a square. Whatever you place inside it becomes the circle, and the four corners of the saved file are left fully transparent.
Before and after
2400 × 3600 px1.08 MBJPG
2400 × 2400 px4.93 MBPNG
A circle 2400 px across was cut from the framed square: 2400 × 2400 px out of the original 2400 × 3600 px.
Everything outside the circle is transparent, so the result is a PNG.
The numbers are from a real run of the tool above. The pictures here are smaller previews of the actual files.
How to use it
- Open the photo or logo you want to round off. Phone pictures in HEIC work too, and they are turned upright first.
- Drag the square frame so the face or logo sits in the middle, and pull a corner handle to include more or less around it. Whatever reaches the frame’s edge only shows at the top, bottom and sides of the disc, so leave a little space around a head.
- Press Crop. The preview shows the disc on its own, with the corners cleared.
- Save the PNG and place it wherever the round picture is needed.
What the saved file contains
The file is still a square, as every image file is a rectangle. The circle touches all four edges of it and only the corners outside the curve are transparent. Its diameter equals the side of the frame in the original photo’s pixels: nothing is enlarged or shrunk, so a frame 1,200 pixels wide gives a 1,200 × 1,200 PNG.
PNG is the only format that keeps the clear corners, and it stores every pixel without loss. A large circle from a phone photo can therefore run to a few megabytes. If that is too heavy, shrink it on the resize page, which keeps a PNG as PNG and the corners clear. Converting it to JPG instead would fill the corners with white.
When you do not need a pre-cut circle
Many sites and messaging apps show profile pictures in a circle on their own: you upload a square and they hide the corners. For those, a plain 1:1 crop is the better upload, because their editor may zoom or shift the picture and a pre-cut disc would end up with a transparent rim. A ready-made circle is worth it where nothing rounds the picture for you: presentations, documents, signatures, web pages, name badges and printed stickers.
This page does one thing. It does not add a coloured ring or border, cannot fill the corners with a colour of your choice, and does not handle video. An animated GIF is read as its first frame only.
Frequently asked questions
- Why are the corners of my round picture black or white?
- The corners are transparent, and the program showing the file decides what to put behind them. Some photo viewers draw black or a checkerboard; documents and web pages show their own background, which is what you want.
- Can I get an oval instead of a circle?
- No. The frame stays square, so the result is always a true circle. For a softer shape on a rectangular picture, the rounded corners page keeps the whole image and only curves its corners.
- Does the circle lose quality?
- The pixels inside the disc are copied at their original resolution and saved as lossless PNG. The edge of the circle is as sharp as your browser draws it; nothing else changes.
- Can I save the circle as a JPG?
- Not from this page, because JPG has no transparency. If a form insists on JPG, convert the PNG afterwards and accept white corners, or upload a square crop instead.
- Is my photo sent anywhere?
- No. The frame, the cut and the PNG are all handled by your browser on this device, so private headshots stay with you.