How To Crop a Photo into a Circle using MS Paint and Word

People like to share profile pictures online to get a digital identity. Picture shape is important for the photo. Two most popular picture shapes are box and circle.

The box-shaped picture is the default one. The circle-shaped picture can be used as a professional profile photo. Especially for students and job seekers, round shaped profile photo is a must.

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Either it's a square-shaped or rectangular shaped photo, the simple crop is enough. If you want the picture shape should be a circle, you may prefer Photoshop. It can be frustrating to learn photoshop tricks to crop a photo into a circle.

You may also have an idea to hire a freelancer to crop your pictures. Here, we have come with simple tips to crop a picture into a circle. Thus, you can do it yourself on your own.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to crop a photo into a circle using MS Paint and MS Word.

Requirements

• Windows PC (Version 7 or above).

• MS Office.

Sample Picture

In this tutorial, we've used this Batman picture to make a circle picture shape. Let's begin the tutorial.

Steps

• Open MS Paint on your Windows PC.

• Add your photo in Paint.

• Choose Rectangular selection in Paint.

• Crop your photo showing your face. 

Look for the below example:

• Save As the picture in PNG format.

• Now, open MS Word.

• Go to Insert > Shapes > Oval.

• Place the cursor on the page and draw a circle. 

Tip: Press the SHIFT button while making a circle. Drag the cursor and make a perfectly round shape for the profile picture.

When you make a circle shape, it will look like this on MS Word:

• Upon finishing the circle, Drawing Tools will be activated.

• Go to Format > Shape Fill > Picture.

• Add the cropped picture into it.

You will see your cropped photo like this:

You need to remove the blue circular outline around the image.

To do that:

• Right-Click on the image area.

• Click on Format Shape option.

Format Picture window will open.

• Click on Line Color.

• Check No Line radio button.

• Click on the Close button.

Have you noticed that the circular line around that image has been cleared?

Note: We've used MS Word Professional Plus 2010. If you're using any other version, Right-Click on image > Format Autoshape. On the Format Autoshape window, under Color section > Choose No Color. Our aim is to clear the circular border.

• Then Right-Click on the image showing points.

• Copy the image to clipboard or Press Ctrl + C.

• To save the image, go to MS Paint.

• Paste the copied image from clipboard to Paint.

• Now, Save the image.

When you use your cropped circle picture on the white background, it will look like this:

To use your circle shape picture on a different background,

• Go to MS Paint.

• Insert a picture with a different background.

• Go to Home > Select > Tick the Transparent Selection.

• Now, add the cropped circle picture on a different background.

An example is given below:

• Then Save the picture.

Tip: Prefer PNG format while saving the picture for best quality.

That's all. You're done.

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Conclusion

If you're looking for circle crop tool, you should try this DIY guide. If you've any queries, feel free to leave your comment.

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