Circle Crop Image
Turn any photo into a round picture with a transparent background. Drag the circle over the face or logo, then save a clean PNG ready for profiles, avatars and stickers. Everything runs in your browser — nothing is uploaded. Need exact pixels instead? Resize or compress.
How to crop an image
Cropping keeps a rectangular (or circular) section of an image and discards the rest — unlike resizing, which scales the whole picture down or up. Use it to remove distracting edges, cut a photo to a specific ratio, or make a circular profile picture.
- Add your images, or drop them in.
- Choose how to crop: Drag & ratio (freeform, square, circle, 16:9…), Exact size (type width, height and position in pixels), Cut from edges (remove pixels or a percentage from each side), or Auto-remove borders (finds plain borders for you).
- Click Apply Crop. The tool moves to the next image automatically — or tick Use this crop for all remaining images to crop a whole batch at once. Then download each file or grab them all as a ZIP.
Drag to the pixel
Move and resize the crop box freely, or lock it to a ratio so it can't be stretched out of shape.
Batch, one at a time
Add a whole folder. The tool queues every image and walks you through cropping each one in turn.
Nothing is uploaded
Cropping happens in your own browser using the Canvas API. Your photos never touch a server.
Other image tools
Cropping cuts pixels away. For the whole-image jobs, use one of these instead:
Can I undo a crop?
Not within this tool once you've downloaded the result — cropping permanently discards the pixels outside the box, unlike resizing, which can be reversed by starting again from the original file.
Click Re-crop on any row before you close the tab to adjust a crop you've already applied; it reopens the original image with your last crop box in place.
Getting a clean round crop
Why it saves as PNG. The corners outside the circle are made transparent, and only PNG keeps that transparency. A JPG would fill them with white or black. Upload the PNG as it is — sites that show round avatars will place it neatly on any background.
Centre the face, leave a margin. Put the eyes slightly above the middle of the circle, with a little space above the hair. Platforms that crop to a circle themselves often trim a few pixels more.
Logos. A round crop suits icon-style logos. If the logo touches the edge of its square, scale it down slightly first so the circle doesn't cut the letters.
Then size it. Most profile pictures display at 100–200 pixels, so resize the PNG afterwards — for example to 400×400 or the Instagram profile size.
More for profile pictures
Size, convert or crop your round picture further:
Frequently asked questions
Why is the background transparent and not white?
So the round picture sits cleanly on any page colour. If you need a white corner, open the PNG in the converter and save it as JPG — the transparent parts become white.
Why does the Circle option produce a square image with rounded corners?
Almost nothing actually stores a circular image file — formats work in rectangles. What the Circle preset does is crop a square and make everything outside the circle transparent, which is why the output is always a PNG regardless of what you uploaded. Any app that displays it in a circular frame (Instagram, Slack, Gmail) will show it as a clean circle; opened directly, you'll see the square canvas with transparent corners.
Does cropping reduce image quality?
No. The pixels you keep are copied exactly as they were — cropping doesn't resample or recompress anything on its own. The one exception is JPG output, which re-applies JPG's own lossy compression when the file is saved, the same as any JPG re-save.
Can I crop many images at once?
You can add many at once, and the tool queues them so you crop each one in turn — cropping is inherently a one-at-a-time decision, since every photo needs its own box position. Once you've cropped everything, download the results together as a ZIP.
Is there a limit on file size or how many files I can crop?
No. Cropping runs inside your browser rather than on a server, so there is no upload, no queue and no cap. Very large images may simply take a moment to load into the editor on a slower device.
Are my images uploaded anywhere?
No. Cropping happens entirely in your browser using the Canvas API. Nothing is transmitted, stored or logged, and you can disconnect from the internet after the page loads and it will still work.