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Create circular profile pictures perfect for WhatsApp, LinkedIn and avatars.
Click or drag image here
JPG, PNG, WebP supported · Max recommended 25MB
Crop any photo into a perfect circle online for free with ResizerPhoto. Create circular profile pictures for WhatsApp, LinkedIn, GitHub or any platform that uses round avatars. Our circle crop tool outputs a PNG with a transparent background so the circular shape displays correctly on any background.
Circular profile pictures have become the standard across nearly every social platform, messaging app, and community forum, but most cameras and editing tools only crop to rectangles — leaving you to either accept a platform's automatic, and often poorly centered, circular crop, or manually create one using layer masks in software like Photoshop. This tool builds the circular mask directly into the crop process, letting you position and resize a circular selection over any part of your photo and export a transparent PNG that already has the circular shape baked in, ready to use as-is on any platform that expects a round avatar.
Because the circular clipping happens at full image resolution rather than on a low-resolution preview, the downloaded file retains sharp detail right up to the edge of the circle, which matters for profile pictures that are often displayed larger than a typical thumbnail on desktop versions of social platforms. This tool is also useful beyond social media profile pictures — circular cropped images are common in team member listings on websites, app onboarding screens, and review or testimonial sections where a round photo next to a name is the standard visual style. Since the output is a standard PNG file with transparency support built in, it works correctly wherever a circular or custom-shaped image is expected, without any special file format requirements on the receiving platform's end. If your subject isn't centered in the original photo, simply drag the circular selection to reposition it before exporting, so the final circular image is framed exactly the way you want rather than being forced into a default centered crop.
Behind the scenes, the tool first draws your uploaded photo onto a canvas at a size you choose, then uses the canvas API's circular path drawing function to define a perfect circle as a clipping region. Once that clipping path is set, anything drawn afterward is only visible inside the circle — so when the tool paints your photo onto the canvas after applying the clip, everything outside the circular boundary becomes fully transparent rather than simply being covered up with a solid color. This is what allows the final downloaded PNG file to have a genuinely transparent background outside the circle instead of a white or black square background, which matters if you place the image over a colored profile banner or a photo grid where a hidden white square would otherwise be visible as an ugly box around your circular photo.
The output is a PNG file with a transparent background, so the circular shape displays correctly on any background color.
Our tool crops to the largest possible circle that fits within your image, centered on the image.
The circle is automatically centered. For precise positioning, crop your image first using our Image Cropper tool to place the subject in the center, then apply circle crop.
Circle crop creates a perfect circle with transparent background. Round corners keep the image rectangular but with smooth rounded corners.
WhatsApp and most social platforms display circular profile pictures on a colored background, so the transparent area blends naturally.
Yes, you can set your own crop dimensions in addition to the common presets offered.
Cropping itself doesn't reduce quality — you keep the original pixels for the area selected, just remove the rest.
Yes, you can upload the original image again at any time to start with a fresh crop.