Circle Crop Image

Add a picture to the box above, drag it until the face or logo sits nicely inside the circle, set the zoom and press the button. The round preview next to the controls shows the finished result as you work, so there are no surprises when you download it.

The page works entirely in your browser. Your pictures are not uploaded, there is no account to make, and you can add up to 100 pictures at once, each up to 60 MB, in JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP or AVIF. Every picture keeps its own position and zoom, so a batch of portraits can each be framed by hand before they are all saved together.

A circle crop cuts a picture down to a perfect round shape. Everything outside the circle is either removed, leaving see-through corners, or filled with a plain colour such as white or black. The file itself is still a square, because every picture file is a rectangle, but only the round part is visible.

Round pictures are everywhere: profile pictures on websites and in email signatures, team pages, speaker lists, avatars in forums and chat programs, round logos, stickers, badges and icons. A neat circle makes a row of different photos look like a matching set, even when they were taken by different people with different cameras.

Many sites show your photo in a circle anyway, but they choose the crop for you. If you circle crop a picture yourself, you decide exactly what is inside the round frame, how close the face is and whether there is a border, and the picture looks the same wherever you use it.

To circle crop image online you only need a browser on a computer, tablet or phone. Open this page, add the picture, frame it and download. There is nothing to install, and the page works the same in every modern browser.

Most online tools send your picture to a server and send the result back. This one does not. The page loads once, and from then on your own device draws the circle, adds the border and saves the file. Private photos stay on your device, and the work is quick because nothing travels over the internet.

Your settings are remembered in this browser. The next time you open the page, the background, border, size and format you chose last time are already set, which is handy when you make round pictures for a whole team over several days.

You can crop image into circle online free on this page, with no sign-up, no trial and no daily limit. Crop 100 pictures, then another 100, as often as you need.

Because the work runs on your own device instead of a paid server, there is nothing to charge for and no queue. A batch of twenty portraits is usually done in a few seconds on a computer.

The round pictures you download carry no FlipMyFormat mark and are not made smaller for free users. What you see in the round preview is what you get, at the size you chose.

To crop image into circle with the face exactly where you want it, drag the picture in the preview. The circle stays still and the picture moves behind it, the same way a profile picture is framed on most sites. On a phone or tablet, drag with one finger.

Zoom brings the picture closer. Use the Zoom slider below the preview, or turn the mouse wheel over the preview on a computer. Zooming in makes the circle cover a smaller part of the picture, so a head and shoulders photo can become a tight face crop. Press Centre to put the picture back in the middle at the starting zoom.

The picture can never leave a gap inside the circle. When you drag too far, the page stops at the edge of the photo, so every round picture is fully covered by the photo itself.

With several pictures, click a thumbnail in the list to show it in the preview and frame it. Each picture remembers its own position and zoom, so you can frame all of them one by one and then crop the whole batch with one press of the button.

A circle crop photo is the usual shape for a profile picture. Pick a photo where the face is sharp and well lit, with some space around the head. Drag the photo so the eyes sit a little above the middle of the circle; that tends to look more natural than a face placed exactly in the centre.

Leave a little room around the hair and chin. A circle cuts off the corners of the picture, so a face that fills a square photo edge to edge will lose the top of the head and the chin. Zoom out a little until the whole head fits with a small margin.

For a team page, give every circle crop photo the same zoom and roughly the same face size, and use the same background and border for everyone. The page remembers the background, border and size settings, so each new photo matches the ones before it.

If the background behind the person is busy, take it away first with Remove Background and then make the round picture here with a white or coloured background. That gives a clean, studio-like look. For an official photo with fixed measurements, use Passport Photo instead; a round crop is not accepted for documents.

Good framing matters more than any setting. Before you crop, look at where the eyes are, how much of the shoulders you want to show and whether the head is tilted. A slight tilt is fine; a face cut off at the forehead rarely is.

For a friendly, open look, show the head and the top of the shoulders. For a strong, close look, zoom in until the face fills most of the circle, but keep the chin and the top of the hair inside it. For group photos, a circle is usually too small to show more than one or two faces clearly; crop each person separately instead.

Light and contrast also count. A face that is darker than its background can look like a silhouette in a small circle, so choose the brighter photo when you have a choice. Plain backgrounds look calmer in a circle than busy ones, because the eye goes straight to the face.

Finally, look at the small version. Many round pictures are shown at 40 to 100 pixels on a screen, where fine details disappear. If the face is still clear at that size, the framing is right.

To circle crop image with border, move the Border width slider above 0%. A ring is drawn around the edge of the circle, and a colour picker appears so you can choose its colour. The width goes from 0% to 15% of the circle's size, so a border looks equally thick on a small avatar and on a large print.

A thin white ring of 2% to 4% is the classic look for a profile picture on a dark page. A coloured ring in your brand colour ties a set of team photos together. A thick ring of 10% or more turns the picture into a badge or a sticker.

The border is drawn inside the circle, so the round picture keeps the size you chose and nothing is cut off at the outside. With a ring and a transparent background, the corners outside the ring stay see-through, so the ring sits cleanly on any page colour.

Background decides what fills the four corners outside the circle. Transparent leaves them see-through, White fills them with white, Black with black, and Colour lets you pick any colour you like.

To circle crop image with white background, choose White. The result is a square picture with a round photo in the middle and white corners. That is the right choice for documents, printed name badges, slides with a white background and any place that cannot show transparency, such as an email program that turns see-through corners black.

White corners saved as JPG give a small file that opens everywhere. Choose Colour when your page or slide has its own background colour, so the corners blend in and the picture looks round even without transparency.

For a truly round picture that sits on any colour, choose Transparent and save as PNG or WebP. Only the circle is visible; the corners are empty, so the round picture looks right on a white page, a dark page or a photo.

A circle crop image transparent background file is what you want for websites, slides, logos and stickers. It is also a good starting point for icons: make the round PNG here, then turn it into an icon with PNG to ICO.

Be aware that JPG cannot store transparency at all. If you choose JPG, the Transparent option is turned off and the corners are filled with white, or with the colour you pick. So when you need see-through corners, keep the format on PNG, which is the default, or use WebP.

To circle crop image without losing quality, keep Size on Full resolution, which is the default. The round picture is then made at exactly the number of pixels inside the circle of the original, with no scaling up or down. The size line under the setting shows how many pixels that is for the picture in the preview.

Full resolution means the largest circle that fits the shorter side of the picture. A photo of 4000 × 3000 pixels gives a round picture of 3000 × 3000 pixels at the starting zoom. When you zoom in, the circle covers fewer pixels of the photo, so the full resolution result becomes smaller; the detail is the same as in the original, there is just less of the picture.

The format matters too. PNG is lossless: every pixel inside the circle stays exactly as it was. WebP and JPG use a Quality setting from 60 to 100, set to 92 by default; that looks like the original to the eye, and 95 to 100 brings it even closer at the cost of a larger file.

So for the sharpest result, use Full resolution and PNG. If you choose a fixed size that is larger than the circle in your photo, the picture is enlarged to fit, and enlarging cannot add detail. Start from the original photo, not a copy saved from a chat or a social site, because those copies are usually smaller already.

Size offers Full resolution, 1080 px, 512 px, 400 px, 256 px and Custom. The number is the width and height of the finished square picture; the circle fills it from edge to edge.

Small fixed sizes are ideal for avatars, because the file is light and every picture in the set matches. Larger sizes are better for slides, prints and anything that may be shown big. If you need a size the list does not offer, choose Custom and type it in pixels.

If you want to change the size of a round picture later, Resize Image can make it smaller while keeping its shape.

Under More options, Soft edge fades the outside of the circle instead of cutting it sharply. The Fade slider goes from 0% to 30%. A small value of 3% to 6% gives a gentle, smooth rim; a larger value gives a dreamy vignette that melts into the background.

With a transparent background, the soft edge fades into see-through, so it blends into any page. With a white or coloured background, it fades into that colour. A soft edge and a border can be used together, though most people choose one or the other.

Under More options, Format offers PNG, WebP and JPG. PNG is the default because it keeps the corners transparent and loses nothing. WebP is smaller and also keeps transparency, and it is shown by all modern browsers. JPG gives small files that open everywhere, but its corners are always filled.

Files are named after the original with -circle added, such as anna-circle.png, so the round copies never get mixed up with the originals. With several pictures, Download all (ZIP) saves them together in one file called circle-crops.zip.

Photo details such as EXIF are not copied into the round pictures, so the camera model, the date and any location are not in the new files. Keep your originals if you need those details. An animated GIF becomes a still picture of its first frame.

A round logo is useful in many places: social pages that show the logo in a circle, app and button icons, labels, stamps and stickers. Square logos often lose their corners when a site cuts them into a circle for you, so it is better to make the round version yourself and check that nothing important falls outside the circle.

Before you start, look at how much empty space the logo has. A logo with a wide margin ends up small inside the circle; zoom in until the logo fills about two thirds of the circle, leaving a calm ring of background around it. A logo with no margin at all needs the opposite: zoom out to the starting zoom and choose a background colour, so the corners of the logo do not touch the rim.

Wide logos, such as a name written next to a symbol, rarely fit a circle well. In that case, frame only the symbol and leave the name out, or put the name under the round picture on your page instead. A coloured background in your brand colour and a thin white ring give a clean badge that reads well at small sizes.

For stickers, choose Transparent, a thick white ring of 8% to 12% and PNG. The white ring gives the familiar die-cut sticker look, and the transparent corners let the sticker sit on any chat background or page.

This circle crop tool takes up to 100 pictures at once. They all share the same background, border, size, soft edge and format, but each one keeps its own position and zoom. That is the difference from a simple tool that cuts the middle out of every picture: here you can frame each face by hand.

A quick way to work through a batch: add all the pictures, set the background, border and size, then click each thumbnail in turn and drag it into place. When every picture looks right, press the button. A circle crop tool that remembers each position this way saves a lot of time on a team page or a class list.

Pictures you do not need can be taken out of the list with the small cross on their thumbnail. The button shows how many pictures will be cropped, and the result lists every file with its size in pixels and its file size.

To circle crop image Windows needs no extra program. Open this page in Edge, Chrome or Firefox, drop the pictures from File Explorer onto the box, or press Ctrl + V to paste a picture you copied, such as a screenshot.

Frame the circle with the mouse: drag to move, turn the wheel to zoom. Then press the button, or Ctrl + Enter. The round picture, or the ZIP with all of them, lands in your Downloads folder. Right-click a ZIP and choose Extract All to get the pictures out.

Programs such as Word or PowerPoint can use the round PNG straight away: insert it as a picture and the transparent corners let the page or slide show through. The same steps work on a Mac, on Linux and on a Chromebook.

On a phone or tablet, open this page in the browser, tap the box and pick a picture from your library. Drag with one finger to move the picture inside the circle and use the Zoom slider to get closer.

Press the button and tap Download. On an iPhone or iPad the picture is saved to Downloads in the Files app, from where you can save it to your photos; on Android it goes to the Downloads folder. Large batches are quicker on a computer, which has more memory.

Keep your original pictures in one folder and save the round copies in another. The -circle ending in each file name keeps them apart.

If the picture needs a different shape of crop first, for example a straight square or a wide banner, use Crop Image. If you want soft rounded corners on a rectangle instead of a full circle, Rounded Corners does exactly that. To take the background away from a portrait before making it round, use Remove Background.

To make a favicon or a desktop icon from a round logo, save it here as a PNG with transparent corners and convert it with PNG to ICO; if your source is a photo, JPG to ICO works too. All our picture tools are listed under Image Tools.

Your pictures are not uploaded. Reading the pictures, drawing the circle and the border, saving the files and making the ZIP all happen in your browser, on your own device. No copy of your photos reaches our servers or anyone else.

That makes the page suitable for photos of family, children, colleagues and clients, and for logos that are not public yet. When you close the page, the pictures are gone from it.

Each picture is decoded by your browser into plain pixels at full size. The part under the circle is copied onto a square canvas, a round mask is applied, with a soft fade if you chose one, and the border is drawn as a ring on top.

The canvas is then saved as PNG, WebP or JPG, named after the original and offered for download. The preview uses a smaller copy to stay fast, but the files you download are made from the full-size picture.

Keep the eyes slightly above the middle of the circle.

Leave a small margin around the head so hair and chin are not cut.

Use the same zoom, border and size for every photo in a set.

Save as PNG for transparent corners, JPG only when white corners are fine.

Use Full resolution when you might print or edit the picture later.

Keep your originals; the -circle copies go in their own folder.