Crop an Image into a Circle

Do you even need to crop it round?

Most social networks, chat apps and video-call tools already display profile pictures as circles — they take a square upload and mask it. For those, upload a square with the face centred and plenty of margin. A pre-cropped circle matters when you control the display: a website team page, an email signature, a slide, a document, a sticker or a logo placed over a coloured background. There, a PNG with transparent corners sits cleanly on any colour.

Framing a face so it looks right in a circle

• Put the eyes roughly one third down from the top of the circle, not dead centre.
• Leave a little space above the head; circles cut corners, so tight crops lose the top of the hair.
• Zoom until the shoulders just meet the edge — faces that are too small disappear at avatar sizes.

Logos in a circle

Wide logos rarely survive a circular crop. Use just the symbol, or pad the logo onto a square canvas first with the image resizer, then crop. A thin ring in your brand colour helps a round logo stand out on busy backgrounds.

Need a rectangle or a fixed ratio instead? Use the image cropper. For an exact square pixel size, see the 512 × 512 and 1080 × 1080 converters.