The short answer
Why use Avatar Crop?
Each site crops your upload to a circle on its own, and a face placed by eye ends up with the chin or hair cut off. Framing it against the same ring first, at a size large enough for any site, means one file works everywhere.
The frame is locked to 1:1. Width starts at 1024 and accepts 16 to 8000 pixels; Height follows it and cannot be typed. While you frame the photo, a ring marks the part that will show in a round avatar. After Create crop, the result screen dims everything outside the circle, but that dimming is only on screen and is not saved in the file.
The PNG is a full square with every pixel kept, corners included. That is what avatar uploads expect: the site stores the square and draws its own circle, sometimes after cropping it again. Keep the face well inside the ring with some room above the head, so a second crop by the site does not clip it.
Pick Circle Crop instead when you need a round file for a web page, a slide or a print, where nobody will cut the corners for you. WhatsApp DP and Discord PFP make the same full square at 640 and 512 pixels. Oval Crop is for an ellipse with transparent corners.
Where Avatar Crop fits
Video call profile
Set a framed headshot as your meeting avatar so it shows when your camera is off.
Developer profiles
Make one square picture for code hosting, package registries and a personal site.
Online course profile
Upload a centered photo to a learning platform that crops student avatars into circles.
Start to finish
How to use Avatar Crop
- 01Tap Choose image and pick a photo, or use Paste from clipboard. Avatar Crop opens the photo in the editor.
- 02Drag the frame to move it and pull a corner handle to resize it. On a phone the settings sit below the preview, so scroll down if you need them.
- 03Tap Create crop, check the result, then tap Download result.
What to expect from Avatar Crop
| Check | What it means here |
|---|---|
| Supported input | JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP, SVG and browser-supported AVIF images |
| Main controls | Crop frame position and size, plus output width and height |
| Output | PNG, with transparent corners for shaped crops |
| Working limit | 50 MB and 50 megapixels per image |
Avatar Crop tips
- Keep the eyes slightly above the center of the ring for a natural profile look.
- The dimmed corners on the result are only a preview; the file keeps them.
- Use a plain background, since the circle is shown very small next to comments and chat messages.
- Upload the same 1024 file to every account so your picture matches everywhere.
Avatar Crop FAQ
Something missing? Ask us.
Does Avatar Crop make the corners transparent?
Why 1024 pixels?
How is it different from WhatsApp DP and Discord PFP?
Does Avatar Crop upload my file?
Is Avatar Crop free to use?
Why did Avatar Crop fail or look wrong?
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