How to Crop an Image in Circle Shape With Photoshop - Step by Step Guide

 Learn How to Circle Crop an Image With Photoshop - Step by Step Guide

If you want to crop an image in circle shape with transparency in photoshop, this posts is for you. Here we provide you a step by step guide with image. You can easily do the same after reading this article.

Step -1 : At first, Open your image in Photoshop. In this article we used a license free image available on internet.

Step -2 : Unlock your image layer or convert your image into an editable layer by double-clicking your Background in the Layers panel, or choose Layer › New › Layer from Background.

 

Step -3 : Select the Elliptical Marquee tool.

 

 

Be sure select path option in the tool:

Step -4 : Draw a perfect circle by holding the shift key and dragging your shape into place.

Step -5 : Right Click on selected area and select "Make selection" option.

 

 

 

 

Step -6 : Under the Select menu, click Inverse to deselect the area inside the circle and select everything outside the circle.

 

 

Step -7 : Under Edit Menu Click Clear to get rid of the rest of your image.

Step -8 : Go to the Select menu and choose Deselect to remove the selection outline. You can also use Ctrl+D button.

Step -9 : Use the regular Crop tool to delete the extra pixels around your circle-cropped image.

Step -10 : Save as a PNG or another image file type that supports transparency. That's it.

Note : Don’t save as a JPG, as this file format will convert your transparent background into solid white.