What is Image Shape Crop?

Image Shape Crop cuts your photos into circles, hearts, stars, hexagons, and a dozen other shapes. Use it for profile pictures, graphics, or social media posts. The area outside the shape can stay transparent or be filled with the color of your choice.

The output is a square image saved as PNG, JPG, or WebP, at your choice of 400, 512, 800, or 1080 pixels. Sixteen shape templates ship by default: circle, ellipse, square, rounded square, heart, star, diamond, hexagon, octagon, pentagon, triangle, cloud, moon, teardrop, shield, and arrow. A zoom slider, XY offset, and rotation control let you reposition your subject inside the shape, and brightness, contrast, and saturation sliders fine-tune the photo before exporting. Behind the shape you can keep the area transparent or fill it with white, black, or a custom color. Save the result, or copy it straight to your clipboard to paste into a design tool, document, or chat.

How to use

1. Step 1 — Upload your image by dragging it onto the canvas or clicking to browse.
2. Step 2 — Pick a shape from sixteen options: circle, ellipse, square, rounded square, heart, star, diamond, hexagon, octagon, pentagon, triangle, cloud, moon, teardrop, shield, or arrow.
3. Step 3 — Position and zoom your subject inside the shape, then download as PNG, JPG, or WebP. Keep the background transparent or fill it with a solid color.

When to use

• Making a circular profile picture from a square photo without manual masking.
• Designing heart-cropped photos for Valentine's cards, wedding invites, or anniversary posts.
• Cutting hexagonal or octagonal tiles for a stylised team-page or about-page grid.

Result

Upload a couple's photo and select the heart shape. Position the heart over both faces, then download as a transparent PNG for a card design or as a white-background JPG for a printed photo book.

FAQ

What goes behind the shape in the saved file?

By default the area outside the shape is transparent, so a PNG or WebP export drops cleanly onto any background. If you switch the Background control to white, black, or a custom color, that color is baked in behind the shape instead. JPG always needs an opaque background since the format has no alpha channel.

Can I reposition my subject inside the chosen shape?

Yes. The horizontal and vertical offset sliders shift the image under the shape mask, and the zoom slider scales it in or out. Recenter resets both to defaults. Use this to keep faces or focal points centred inside a heart, star, or hexagon.

What size is the saved image?

Pick the output dimensions before you save — 400, 512, 800, or 1080 pixels square. 400px suits most profile slots; 1080px is better for high-resolution social posts or print. The on-screen preview always shows 400px, but the file you download or copy uses the size you chose.

Will the shape's edge look smooth or jagged?

Smooth. The clipping mask uses anti-aliased canvas paths, so curves on circles and hearts have softened edges that blend cleanly into transparency. Sharp-cornered shapes like diamonds and triangles get clean diagonals without staircase artifacts.

Can I use a transparent PNG as input?

Yes. Existing transparent regions stay transparent and the shape mask is applied on top, so anything outside the shape also becomes transparent in a PNG or WebP export. The result is a fully alpha-aware cutout you can drop straight into a design.

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