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Choose imageAbout the Circle Crop
Turn any photo into a perfect circle or a rounded square in seconds — ideal for profile pictures, avatars, team pages and logo badges. The tool automatically centre-crops your image to a square, then clips it to a circle or to rounded corners with an adjustable radius. Keep the background transparent for a clean PNG cutout, or fill it with any colour you choose.
Round avatars look sharp everywhere from Discord and Slack to email signatures and website bios, but most photo apps make the simple circle crop surprisingly fiddly. Here it's three clicks, and because the clipping happens on a canvas in your own browser, the photo is never uploaded. Download the result as a PNG with real alpha transparency that drops cleanly onto any background.
Features
- One-click circle crop centred on your photo
- Rounded-square mode with adjustable corner radius
- Transparent PNG output with true alpha channel
- Optional solid background colour of your choice
- Live preview updates as you tweak settings
- Private by design — cropping runs entirely in your browser
How to crop an image into a circle online
- Drop your photo onto the tool or click to select it.
- Choose Circle, or pick Rounded and set the corner radius.
- Keep the background transparent, or untick it and pick a colour.
- Check the live preview, then click Download to save the PNG.
Frequently asked questions
Will the circular background be transparent?
Yes, by default. The area outside the circle is saved as true alpha transparency in the PNG, so the cutout sits cleanly on any coloured page or design. If you prefer a solid backdrop — white for a printed document, brand colour for a badge — untick transparency and pick any colour.
What happens if my photo isn't square?
The tool centre-crops it to a square automatically, using the largest square that fits, before applying the circle. If the subject isn't centred in the original, crop the photo to a square around the subject first — Tooldoodle's image cropper or editor handles that — then circle-crop the result.
Which sites accept round profile pictures made here?
Any site that accepts PNG uploads: Discord, Slack, GitHub, LinkedIn, forums, email signatures and your own website. Note that platforms that already display avatars in a circle will crop a square upload themselves, so this tool is most useful where the display area is square or rectangular.
Does circle cropping reduce image quality?
No. The pixels inside the circle are copied from your original at full resolution with no recompression — only the shape changes. The output is a lossless PNG, so text, faces and fine detail stay exactly as sharp as they were in the source photo.
Is my photo uploaded when I crop it?
No. The circle is clipped on an HTML canvas running in your own browser, and the finished PNG is generated on your device as well. No server ever receives your image at any point in the process, so personal photos and professional headshots remain completely private from start to finish.