Circle Crop an Image
This free tool crops an image into a circle in your browser and saves it as a PNG with a genuinely transparent background, so it sits cleanly on any color rather than inside a white square.
Drop an image here
PNG, JPG, WebP, or GIF
BeforeAfter- Nothing uploadedYour images stay on your device
- Works offlineOnce this page has loaded
- No size capOnly your device's memory
- No watermarkYou get back only your image
- No accountNothing to sign up for
How it works
- Drop an image onto the box above, or click to choose one.
- Drag the circular selection over the part you want to keep. For a profile picture, center it on the face.
- Drag any handle to make the circle larger or smaller.
- Click Download PNG. The corners outside the circle are fully transparent.
Common use cases
- Making a round profile picture or avatar for a site that shows square images.
- Preparing headshots for a team or about page where they sit in circles.
- Creating a circular logo badge to overlay on a photo or video.
- Cutting a round sticker or emblem out of a larger graphic.
- Producing a circular crop to drop into a slide or document without a white box around it.
Frequently asked questions
- Is the area outside the circle really transparent?
- Yes. The corners are erased rather than filled with white, so the result sits on any background color without a visible square behind it. That is the whole difference between this and drawing a circle over a photo.
- Why must the download be a PNG?
- JPG has no transparency channel, so saving as JPG would fill the corners with a solid color and put the square straight back. PNG keeps them genuinely empty.
- My circle looks square again after uploading it somewhere. Why?
- Some platforms flatten transparency onto a white background when they process an upload, and others crop to their own circle anyway. Nothing on our side can prevent that, but the file you download does have a transparent background, which you can confirm by opening it over a colored layer.
- What size will the circle be?
- The selection is square and the circle fills it, so a 600 x 600 selection produces a 600 x 600 PNG with a 600 pixel circle inside it. Larger is safer: the platform will scale it down, and downscaling looks far better than upscaling.
- Can I use this without a mouse?
- Yes. Tab to the selection, then arrow keys move it, Shift with arrows moves faster, and Alt with arrows resizes.
- Is my image uploaded to a server?
- No. Cropping happens entirely in your own browser using the Canvas API. The file never leaves your device, and nothing is stored.
Related tools
- Square Image CropperCrop any image to a perfect 1:1 square.
- Image CropperCrop an image freehand or to a fixed aspect ratio.
- Remove White BackgroundMake a white background transparent. Best for logos, screenshots, and product shots on white.
- Emote ResizerResize art to every Twitch emote and badge size and Discord emoji and sticker size at once.
Understand what this does
Plain explanations of what is happening to your file, and what it costs you.
- What is a favicon?The small square in the tab, and the handful of files that cover everything asking for one. The hard part is not making them. It is that a logo stops being readable long before it gets that small.
- How to make an image transparentUsually it means a clear background, sometimes a see-through picture. Both are easy, and both are undone by saving in the wrong format.