Profile Picture Without Cropping
Make your profile picture fit in a circle with nothing cut off. The whole picture goes inside, and the space around it stays transparent in a PNG or takes a color you pick.
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- No watermarkJust your photo in the file
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How to make a profile picture without cropping
Choose a photo from your device, or drop or paste it on the page.
Check that Whole photo is on, so the entire picture sits inside the circle.
Open the Background tab to keep the space around the picture transparent, or to fill it with a color: white, one suggested from the photo, one of your own, or one taken with the eyedropper.
Press Done, then Download. A PNG or WebP keeps the transparent parts; a JPEG fills them with the background color, or white.
How do I fit a whole picture in a profile picture?
Turn on Whole photo: the picture shrinks into the circle until its four corners touch the edge, so nothing is cut off.
The price is space: the picture covers only part of the circle, where a normal crop fills it edge to edge. The wider or taller the picture, the more empty space it leaves around it.
That trade is worth it for a wide group photo, a tall portrait or a logo with words near its edges, where any cut would lose something.
A white or colored background around the picture
You can put a white or colored background around the picture, or leave that space transparent.
Choose white, one of the colors suggested from your photo, a color of your own, or use the eyedropper to take one from the photo itself. A color taken from the photo is the easy way to make the space blend in.
Where the color shows depends on the format. In a PNG or WebP it fills the circle around the picture and the corners stay transparent; in a JPEG it fills the corners too, and white takes its place if you set no color.
What you get: a square file with the circle inside
The file is a square, and the circle inside it holds your whole picture at its own shape, never stretched into an oval. Only the space around the picture and the corners change; the background inside your picture stays as it is.
FAQ
How do I make a square picture fit into a circle?
Turn on Whole photo: the square shrinks until its four corners touch the circle, so none of it is cut. The four curved gaps between its sides and the circle stay transparent in a PNG, or take the color you pick.
Can I use the finished picture on Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp without it being cropped again?
That depends on the site, and CircleCrop cannot see its rules, so check the site's own help page for the file types and sizes it accepts. With Whole photo on, what CircleCrop saves is a square PNG, WebP or JPEG with your whole picture inside the circle.
Why does my picture look small inside the circle?
Because its four corners have to fit inside the circle, the picture cannot fill it, and a wide or tall picture leaves more space than a square one. To make it bigger, zoom in and the circle starts cutting the corners, or turn Whole photo off to fill the circle completely.
Can I leave the space around the picture transparent?
Yes, in a PNG or WebP file, where that space stays transparent unless you pick a color. A JPEG has no transparency, so it fills that space and the corners with the background color, or white when none is set.
Can I add a ring to a whole photo?
Yes: open the Ring tab and choose Outside, so the ring covers none of the picture. An inside ring covers the edge of the photo, and an outside ring makes the file larger by twice its width.
To fill the circle and cut off the edges instead, use the circle crop image tool.
To put a ring around the circle, see how to add a border to a circle image.