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Drop a photo, drag the round frame over the part you want, and download a clean circular cutout with a transparent background.
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Araluma's circle crop turns any photo into a round cutout, the kind a profile picture or an avatar needs. Drop an image in, drag the circular frame over the part you want to keep, and download the result. Save it as a transparent PNG, WebP, or AVIF so the corners outside the circle are see-through, or flatten it onto a solid color as a JPEG. The whole crop happens right on your own machine, so the photo stays on your own machine and nothing is sent away. Cropping only chooses which pixels to keep, so the part inside the circle stays at its original quality. You pick the frame. The tool draws the circle. There is nothing to learn and nothing to install. Drop an image and round it off. From there you can crop a rectangle instead, compress the result, or browse the rest of the crop tools.
Drop a single photo onto the page, or pick one from your device. A round frame appears over the image. You drag and scale it over the part you want to keep, a face, a logo, a badge. When the framing looks right, press the button and the circle is cut, with everything outside it cleared away. The result is ready to download in seconds. There is nothing to set up first, and the photo stays on your own machine the whole time.
Once the circle is cut, you choose how to keep it. A transparent PNG is the safe default, with the corners outside the circle left see-through so the round photo drops cleanly onto any color. A WebP or AVIF keeps that transparency at a lighter weight. A JPEG cannot hold transparency, so the corners are filled with a solid color, white unless you pick another. The circle is the same in every case, only the file you save changes.
A round photo is what most social networks quietly expect. Discord, Slack, LinkedIn, and Instagram all show a profile picture inside a circle, cropping whatever you upload to fit. By rounding the photo yourself first, you decide exactly what sits inside the circle instead of leaving it to an automatic crop that may cut off the top of a head or center on the wrong thing. The cutout you download drops straight into any of them.
Because the round photo is saved with a transparent background, it scales cleanly to whatever size an avatar slot asks for, from a tiny comment badge to a large profile header. The crop keeps the full resolution of the part inside the circle, so a picture meant for a big avatar stays sharp rather than soft. Center the face a little above the middle and leave a small margin. Then the same cutout reads well at every size.
The whole crop runs on your own machine, so the photo stays on your own machine and nothing is sent to a server. You can confirm it: open the network panel and round a photo, and you will see no image leave the page. Nothing is added to the file you download either, no badge in the corner and no stamp across the picture. What you save is just the clean round cutout.
The tool handles a wide range of inputs, PNG, JPG, WebP, AVIF, GIF, BMP, and SVG, plus HEIC on Safari, so most photos go straight in. It works on one image at a time, since rounding a photo is a deliberate framing choice rather than a batch job, and the frame is one you place by hand, not an automatic guess. Once your photo is round you can crop it to a rectangle instead, or compress it for the web.
Drop one image onto the page or pick it from your device. The whole crop stays in your browser.
Drag and scale the round frame over the part you want to keep, like a face or a logo.
Press the button and the circle is cut, with everything outside it cleared away.
Keep the round photo as a transparent PNG, WebP, or AVIF, or flatten it onto a color as a JPEG.
Save the round photo to your device, ready to drop into any profile or layout.
A circle crop is one shape. Crop a rectangle instead, make the file lighter for the web, or browse the full set of crop tools.
No, the part inside the circle keeps its original quality. Cropping only chooses which pixels to keep and clears the rest, so nothing inside the circle is re-compressed. A transparent PNG, WebP, or AVIF holds every detail, only a JPEG is a little lighter, and that is because JPEG compresses, not because the crop changed anything.
Yes, that is the point of a circle crop. When you save the round photo as a PNG, WebP, or AVIF, the corners outside the circle are left fully transparent, so the cutout drops cleanly onto any color or background. Only a JPEG cannot hold transparency, so its corners are filled with a solid color instead.
You can round PNG, JPG, WebP, AVIF, GIF, BMP, and SVG images, plus HEIC on Safari, so most photos go straight in. The round photo comes back as a transparent PNG, WebP, or AVIF, or as a JPEG flattened onto a color you pick, ready for wherever it is headed.
It stays with you. The whole crop runs on your own machine, so the picture is never sent to a server while you round it. You can check it yourself in the network panel: round a photo and watch nothing leave the page. Because no server ever touches the image, there is nothing to log, retain, or share in the first place.
Yes, and the round photo comes back with nothing stamped on it. You can save the cutout and use it for any profile or layout without paying for the download. What you get is the clean circle on a transparent background, with no badge in the corner and no mark across the picture.
Yes. Since cropping only discards the corners and never touches the pixels inside the circle, the cutout carries the same detail the original had. Saved with transparency, it has no square edge to give it away, so it drops into a small chat icon or a large header and looks intentional at either end rather than stretched or boxed.
Because so many places show a profile picture inside a circle. Rounding the photo yourself lets you decide exactly what sits inside the frame, instead of leaving it to an automatic crop that might cut off the top of a head. For a banner or a thumbnail, a rectangle is still the right shape, and that is a different crop.
There is nothing to install. Open the page, add your photo with a click or a drag, drag the round frame over the part you want, and press the button. Your circular cutout comes back ready to save as a transparent PNG, WebP, or AVIF, or as a JPEG, all without the photo ever leaving your machine.
Notes from the team on craft, formats, and the small decisions behind a good round crop.