How to crop an image into a circle in Photoshop

In this article, TipsMake will show you how to cut images into shapes in Photoshop simply and quickly.

Step 1: Open the Photoshop application and add the image to the system for processing. In the case of cropping the image to a square, we will be working on the original image, so select the Lock icon to unlock the image.

Once the image has been unlocked, the Background Layer will be changed to Layer 0 , thus completing the unlocking of editing.

Step 2: Then, select the Marquee Tool item and select the Elliptical Marquee Tool item .

Step 3: By default, the Elliptical Marquee Tool will create an elliptical selection, if you want to create a circular selection, you will have to hold the Shift key .

Step 4: When creating a circle on the image, right-click and select Select Inverse to invert the selection outside the circle.

Step 5: Now you just need to press the Delete or Backspace key to proceed to delete the selection outside the selection. The image will instantly be cropped to a circle and without a (transparent) background.

Step 6: If you want to create a background for the image, create a new Layer (1) and move them down (2) to make the background.

Step 7: Next, open the color tool and find the Paint Bucket Tool to fill the background. The background color palette you can choose from in the color selection section in Photoshop.

Step 8: Once the images have been backgrounded, you can also use the Crop Tool to cut them into a square and nicer shape.

Step 9: Finally, you just need to choose File => Save As… to save the image on your computer.

So you have finished creating images into circles on Photoshop software with just a few basic operations.

In this article, Tipsmake showed you how to create circular images in Photoshop software. Have a nice day!

Jessica Tanner

Update 20 December 2021