Crop an image into a circle

Profile photo sizes, checked on each help page

Every app sets its own rules, and some give only a minimum. The table lists what each platform's own help page said when we read it on 13 October 2026, and the size our preset saves. Where a page gives only a minimum or a range, the preset is our own pick inside it and is marked that way.

Discord's help names PNG and GIF as its avatar file types, not JPG, so save a PNG for Discord. A square file is the safe upload everywhere. Facebook says it shows Page profile pictures cropped to a circle, so the corners of the square are hidden in that view. When an app cuts its own circle like that, a solid background is the safer choice, because a site that saves your upload without transparency turns clear corners into a color you did not pick.

Want the whole photo inside a round profile picture, with a soft border instead of a crop? The full DP tool does that.

Clear corners or a solid background

A circle crop always gives you a square file: the round picture plus four corners. With Transparent picked, those corners hold no color at all, so the circle sits cleanly on any web page, slide or document. PNG and WebP can store that transparency. JPG cannot, as the MDN image format guide explains, so a JPG from this tool gets white corners. Google's WebP page notes that WebP keeps transparency even in its smaller lossy mode.

In our test with the sample dog photo, framed on its head and saved at 400 x 400 pixels with Transparent picked, the PNG came to 270 KB, the WebP to 35 KB and the JPG, with its white corners, to 41 KB. PNG keeps every pixel exactly. WebP and JPG are saved at quality 92, which still looks clean on a photo but changes fine detail slightly. So PNG suits logos and flat graphics, and WebP gives you clear corners in a far smaller file for photos.

Logos need a second look. LinkedIn says a transparent Page logo is shown on a white background, so a white logo with clear corners would vanish there. The previews under the tool show your picture on a light and a dark page, so you can catch that before you upload.

How wide to make the ring

The ring width is a share of the picture's width, so it looks the same at every size. It sits inside the square: when you widen it, the image shrinks a little so your framing stays as you set it. The gap adds space between the image and the ring, filled with the background color or left clear.

Profile pictures are often shown small. YouTube renders channel pictures at 98 x 98 pixels, and Facebook shows Page profile pictures at 176 x 176 on computers. This is how wide the ring ends up at those sizes:

At 2 percent the ring is about 2 pixels wide at YouTube's size, so pick 4 percent or more when the picture will be shown that small. If the app crops its own circle, give the ring a little extra width too, since a mask slightly tighter than ours would trim its outer edge.

Circle crop a logo without cutting its corners

A circle is narrower than the square around it, so Fill the circle trims the corners of anything square. Choose Fit the whole image instead: it scales the image until its corners touch the circle. A square logo then spans about 71 percent of the circle's width, because the largest square inside a circle has sides equal to the diameter divided by the square root of 2.

Wide wordmarks lose less width: a logo three times as wide as it is tall, fitted the same way, spans about 95 percent of the width and 32 percent of the height. Turn on Fill the circle behind the image to set it on a colored disc. SVG logos open too: we draw them 2048 pixels across their longest side, so the edges stay crisp at profile photo sizes and well beyond. If the logo came on a plain white box, clear that first with the background remover, then bring the PNG back here.