Cookie-cutter your photos.
Circles for avatars, hearts for valentines, arches for vintage spreads, stars for kids' walls. Nine shapes, seven backdrop colours plus transparent, four edge styles. Drag to reposition, zoom to fit. Transparent PNG export when you want one. Nothing uploads. For a layered design, grab a proper app.
Crop a photo to a circle, heart or star
Cut a photo into one of nine shapes — circle, oval, rounded square, arch, heart, star, diamond, hexagon or luggage tag — on a paper background or as a transparent PNG.
What you can change
- Shape
- Zoom
- Recenter
- Background
- Edge
- Edge colour
How it works
- 01Drop in a photo, or open one of the samples.
- 02Pick the shape, then drag the photo inside it and zoom to choose what stays. Set the background colour or transparency, and an edge: line, double or die-cut.
- 03Download it at full resolution. Nothing is uploaded — the work happens in this browser tab.
Setting up the cookie cutter…
Crop a photo to a circle, heart or star
Cut a photo into one of nine shapes — circle, oval, rounded square, arch, heart, star, diamond, hexagon or luggage tag — on a paper background or as a transparent PNG.
What you can change
- Shape
- Zoom
- Recenter
- Background
- Edge
- Edge colour
How it works
- 01Drop in a photo, or open one of the samples.
- 02Pick the shape, then drag the photo inside it and zoom to choose what stays. Set the background colour or transparency, and an edge: line, double or die-cut.
- 03Download it at full resolution. Nothing is uploaded — the work happens in this browser tab.
Setting up the cookie cutter…
Six places shaped photos beat rectangles
- 01 for profile pics
A circle crop for an avatar without browser zoom
Most platforms display avatars in a circle but accept a square upload. Pre-crop to circle here with a transparent PNG; you control which part of the photo lands where, instead of accepting whatever automatic crop the platform decides. Avatar looks intentional, not lucky.
- 02 for journals
An arch-cropped portrait for a vintage album spread
Edwardian-era family albums used arch-shaped portrait windows — tall rectangle with a rounded top. Run your portrait through Arch with a paper background and the photo immediately reads as 'old album'. Glue onto a kraft journal page; the spread tells you where you are in time.
- 03 for valentines
A heart-cropped photo for the inside of a card
Every Valentine's Day card needs a photo. Run a couple shot through Heart with a soft cream background, print on cardstock, glue inside a folded card. Same effort as a generic heart-shaped sticker; ten times more personal.
- 04 for kids
Star-cropped photos for a kid's wall display
Wall display of school year photos: each year's portrait in a Star with a different paper backdrop. Print on photo paper, mount on construction-paper backings, hang in a row. Reads as 'we noticed' rather than 'we forgot to update the frame'.
- 05 for invites
A rounded-square photo for a save-the-date
Square-with-rounded-corners is the modern app-icon shape. Cropping a save-the-date photo to that shape pulls the design forward — feels like a tile in an app, not a stock-photo background. Print on glossy cardstock for a feed-ready feel.
- 06 for stickers
Diamond-cropped photos for a sticker sheet
Print-and-cut sticker sheets work best with consistent shapes — diamonds tile cleanly. Drop nine photos through Diamond mode with the same paper-cream background, lay them out in a 3×3, print, hand-cut. Perfect for a sticker swap or a book-cover decoration.
Frequently asked
Does the photo upload anywhere? +
No. The crop is rendered to a canvas in your browser. Your photo never touches our servers — we don't run an image pipeline at all.
How do I get a circle PNG with transparent background? +
Pick the Circle shape and the Transparent background. The export becomes a PNG with the background outside the circle as full alpha — perfect for layering onto a different design.
How do I move the photo within the shape? +
Click and drag on the canvas to reposition. The shape stays fixed; the photo slides underneath. Combine with the zoom slider to fine-tune which part of the photo fills the shape.
Why is the output square? +
All shapes here are designed to fit a square canvas — circles, hearts, stars all sit naturally inside one. For non-square aspect ratios, run the result through the Crop & Resize tool afterward to letterbox into Story 9:16, Pinterest 2:3, etc.
What are the four edge styles? +
None is the bare shape. Line draws a single outline in your chosen colour. Double adds an inset inner ring for a vintage-portrait feel. Die-cut wraps the outline in a paper border with a soft shadow, the way a sticker sits on a page.
Will the shape fill the frame? +
Yes — every shape is drawn to touch all four sides of the canvas, so a heart reaches the bottom point and a star reaches its top tip. Zoom in and drag if you want a specific part of the photo inside it.
now what?
A few moves after a cookie-cutter cut
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Drop Shadow
Float the cutout over paper for an avatar mockup.
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Background Replace
Drop the cutout onto a colour or photo backdrop.
Open
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Add Text to Photo
Add a name caption next to the avatar.
Open
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Duotone Effect
Recolour the cropped shape in two tones.
Open
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Polaroid Maker
Frame the shape in a Polaroid.
Open
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Pinterest Pin Maker
Use the cropped shape as a pin hero.
OpenThe rest of this shelf
Photo Strip Maker
Four photos, B&W mode, handwritten caption.
Open
Diptych Maker
Two photos, side-by-side or stacked.
Open
Photo Mat & Border
Paper mat for prints, journals, framed walls.
Open
Vintage Postcard
Greetings caption, faux stamp, postmark, paper texture.
Open
Social Banner
X, LinkedIn, or YouTube cover with title overlay.
Open
Background Remover
Cut the background out of any photo in one click.
Open Make proper layouts
in a proper app.
One shape-cropped photo is a piece. When you want a multi-photo composition — six shaped photos arranged on a paper background with captions and washi tape — a real collage app handles it cleanly.