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Crop an image into a circle

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Luke1 Posted messages 18751 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   -
Hello,
I have a round image and I would like to keep it as it is as a photo. How can I crop it with GIMP 2 so that my photo is round?
I don't know GIMP 2 at all.
Thank you for your help.

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    Luke1 Posted messages 18751 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   5 435
     
    Good evening,

    Simple:

    - Open your image in GIMP.
    - Add an Alpha channel (right-click --> add Alpha channel).
    - Use the elliptical selection tool to make a round selection.
    - Go to Selection --> Invert or Interchange depending on the version.
    - Press the Delete key on your keyboard to cut everything that exceeds.
    - Go to Selection --> Delete or none (same reason as above).
    - Crop your image and export it as PNG to keep the transparency: File Export (or save as). For more safety before that or if you want to work on it again, save (not export) in XCF which is GIMP's native format.
    - You have a round image on a transparent background:





    Luke.

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