How to Crop Circles From Photos in Photoshop
Although there is not a built-in feature in Photoshop to make a circle-shaped photograph, it can be done with a few simple steps. Circle photographs are excellent for magnets or promotional buttons and can be made without sacrificing important parts of the photo.
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Instructions
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Open your image in Photoshop. Determine what area of the image you want included in your circle. Rename the background layer (the automatic layer) to “Layer 1” by double-clicking on the name and typing in “Layer 1.”
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Create a duplicate layer of your image. Select “Layer” and “Duplicate Layer.” This will give you a layer called “Layer 1 copy.” Work on this layer so that your original image is preserved.
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Select the Elliptical Marquee tool from the left-hand toolbar. Press “Shift” while you pull the mouse over your photograph to draw a circle over the area you want to preserve. Pressing “Shift” will keep the circle perfectly round.
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With the circle area selected, press “Control” and “I” to invert the selection. Now the background of the photograph is selected, but the circle is not. Press “Delete” to remove the background and complete the circle crop.
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- Photo Credit Jack Hollingsworth/Photodisc/Getty Images
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How about for someone like me still using Photoshop 6? Everything goes along according to these directions until I click Delete, what happens then is my circle area gets filled with color. It doesn't invert to the background area or even delete the circle area. So I imagine even the background area would be filled with color if it had inverted, when all I want to do is crop the selected circle area out of the square photo.
