How to cut a picture in a circle in Photoshop

 How to cut a picture in a circle in Photoshop

  Cropping a photo in a circle in Photoshop will allow us to get very amazing, unique and disturbing images, leaving aside simple squares or rectangles.  Achieving this is very easy and we will see below a step by step guide so you can learn how to achieve it step by step.

  Since we love Photoshop, we have on many occasions shared different and very interesting guides for achieving unique effects in our versions, from creating a reflection, cropping an image, switching between dark and light themes, etc.

  Cut a picture in a circle in Photoshop

  open layer

  The first thing we will do is open Photoshop and add the image we want to edit.  When the image is open, we will click on the "Lock" icon to unlock the layer.

  How to Crop a Circle Image in Photoshop

  After unlocking the image, the background layer will be changed to layer 0, thus completely unlocking the editing.

  elliptical selection tool

  Now we will have to select the Marquee Tool item, right click on it and we will choose the Elliptical Marquee Tool.

  circle mark

  By default, the Elliptical Marquee tool will create an elliptical selection, if we want to create a circular selection, we will have to hold down the Shift key.

  Check in the opposite direction

  Once the circle is created in the image, we will right click on it and we will choose Inverse Selection so that the selection is outside the circle.

  We have already succeeded in cropping the image of the circle in Photoshop

  Now all we have to do is press the Delete or Delete key so we can delete everything outside the selection.  The image will be cropped instantly in a circle without background.

  lower the layer

  If we want to create a background for the image, we will click on "New Layer" and move it down.

  paint bucket

  Next, we will find the color tool and we will right-click to select the Paint Bucket tool, this way we will fill the background.

  So we can put a background after cropping the image of a circle in Photoshop

  After placing the images in the background, we can also use the Crop tool to crop them into a more flattering square shape.

  To finish, we'll simply click on File > Save As and we'll already be able to crop an image in a circle in Photoshop.