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Circle Crop Image

Crop a photo to a perfect circle for a profile picture.

  • Free
  • No signup
  • Nothing uploaded
  • No watermark

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Your photo · read on your device, never uploaded

How to Use the Circle Crop Image Online

Circle Crop Image: before and after JPG A BEFORE CIRCLE CROPIMAGE JPG A AFTER

Circle Crop Image cuts a photo into a circle and leaves the corners transparent. The picture is first trimmed to a centred square, otherwise the result would be an oval, and the circle is drawn inside that square. The download is always a PNG, because JPG has no transparency and would fill the outside with a solid colour. It suits avatars, team pages and a round badge on a slide.

Crops a photo to a perfect circle with transparency outside it. Save as PNG rather than JPG — JPG has no transparency, so the area outside the circle becomes a solid square and defeats the point entirely.

No software to install Free Works on any device

Step-by-Step Guide to Using the Circle Crop Image

  1. 1. Drop your picture in

  2. 2. Adjust the settings — the preview updates as you change them

  3. 3. Download the PNG

    The photo is never uploaded.

No .png file to hand? Download a sample Image file (253.4 KB) and try it.

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What is the Circle Crop Image?

Crops a photo to a perfect circle with transparency outside it. Save as PNG rather than JPG — JPG has no transparency, so the area outside the circle becomes a solid square and defeats the point entirely.

JPG files

.JPG .PNG .WEBP

Crop a photo to a perfect circle for a profile picture.

At a glance

  • Takes: JPG, PNG or WebP
  • Gives: A square PNG with the circle inside and transparent corners
  • Crop: Centred square of the shorter side, so faces are not stretched
  • Output: Same pixel size as the square, no upscaling
  • Runs: On a canvas in your browser; the photo stays on your device
  • Price: Free, no signup

Why Use Online Image Tools?

Every website, exam form and social app wants pictures in its own size, shape and format. Resizing, compressing, cropping and converting on your own device gets a photo accepted the first time, without sending it anywhere.

“The right photo in the wrong size still gets rejected.”
  • Photos that meet size limits
  • Crops that fit each platform
  • Faster loading web pages
  • Text and watermarks added
  • Any format to any format
  • Private details stripped from photos
  • Exam photos made to rule
  • Colours picked straight from pictures

Popular Uses for Photo Editing Tools

These are the picture jobs people bring here most often.

  • Exam application photos Resize a photo and signature to the exact size and KB limit an exam form asks.
  • iPhone HEIC photos Convert HEIC pictures to JPG so they open on Windows and upload to any site.
  • Faster websites Convert product images to WebP and compress them so pages load quicker on mobile.
  • Social media posts Crop and resize a picture to fit Instagram, Facebook or a Discord profile.
  • Passport-style photos Make a passport-size ID photo, cropped to the size a form or office asks for.
  • Removing location data Strip GPS and camera details from a photo before posting it publicly.
  • Favicons for websites Turn a logo into the small icon that shows in a browser tab.
  • Collages and GIFs Put several photos into one collage or join frames into a short animated GIF.

What You Can Do with the Circle Crop Image

Accepts JPG, PNG, WEBP

Aspect ratio is held unless you deliberately break it, so faces and text are never stretched

Resampling is done by the browser’s own image engine, the same one used to display the picture

Why Use ToolXkit for Circle Crop Image?

Your files stay with you

Everything runs inside your browser. Nothing you open or type is uploaded to a server.

Picture Tools for Different Users

Students and job applicants

Get photos and signatures accepted by admission and recruitment forms first time.

Online sellers

Prepare product photos that look sharp and load quickly on shop pages.

Web developers

Convert images to WebP or AVIF and make favicons for new sites.

Social media users

Resize pictures for each platform and add text or borders to posts.

Bloggers

Compress and watermark images so articles stay quick and credit stays with you.

Designers

Pull colour palettes from photos and check image sizes and resolution.

Best Times to Resize or Convert an Image

Image tools help most when you are:

  • Filling in an online application
  • Uploading a photo that is too large
  • Opening iPhone pictures on Windows
  • Posting to different social apps
  • Speeding up a slow web page
  • Sharing a photo taken at home
  • Adding a watermark to your work
  • Making a favicon for a new site

Tips and Good to Know

  1. The circle is centred automatically. If the face is off to one side, crop the photo to a square around it first with Crop Image, then run it here.

  2. A site that displays avatars as circles already does the rounding. Upload the square photo there instead; a pre-cut circle just adds transparent corners.

  3. For rounded corners rather than a full circle, use Rounded Corner Image; this page only makes circles.

Frequently Asked Questions

Answers to common questions about this tool.

Do I need to install anything to use the Circle Crop Image?

No. Circle Crop Image runs entirely in your browser — there is nothing to download, no extension and no desktop program. It works the same on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iPhone.

Is it safe to use the Circle Crop Image online?

Safer than the usual alternative, yes. Most online tools upload your file to a server you know nothing about, where it sits until someone deletes it. Here the file never leaves your device — the processing happens in the page itself, so there is no server copy to leak, retain or sell.

Does Circle Crop Image reduce my photo’s quality?

Converting and cropping keep quality close to the original. Compressing trades a little detail for a much smaller file, and a lighter setting keeps more of it. Compare the preview with your original before saving.

Will my photo be accepted by the exam form?

The exam photo tools follow the size, dimensions and file weight given in the official notice. Always read the latest notice too, because boards sometimes change their rules between years.

Can I edit pictures with Circle Crop Image straight from my gallery?

Yes. Pick a photo from your gallery or take one with the camera, then save the result back to your phone. Everything works in the browser, so there is no app to install.

Is Circle Crop Image free with no watermark?

Yes. Use it for as many pictures as you need without an account, and each image comes back without any logo or mark from the site.

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