And if were using Photoshops Crop Tool, we dont really have any other options.

But who says we need to use the Crop Tool Photoshop makes it just as easy to crop a photo using a selection tool.

Ill be using Photoshop CC here but any recent version of Photoshop will work.

The reason is that well need to be able to surround our image with transparency, but Photoshop doesnt allow transparency on the Background layer.

In Photoshop CS6 or earlier, press and hold the Alt (Win) Option (Mac) key on your keyboard and double-click on the Background layer.

And just like that, weve converted it into a normal layer and were good to go.

By default, the Elliptical Marquee Tool is nested behind the Rectangular Marquee Tool.

Right-click (Win) Control-click (Mac) on the Rectangular Marquee Tool, then choose the Elliptical Marquee Tool from the fly-out menu.

Dont worry about getting the location of the circle exactly right because well move it into position in the next step.

For now, just make sure the circle is big enough to surround the area you want to keep.

Make sure you release your mouse button first, then the Shift key, or the selection outline will snap back into a freeform elliptical shape.

Here, Im moving it so that the young womans face is centered within the circle.

What we actually need is for the area outside the circle to be selected.

Photoshop fills the area with a checkerboard pattern, which is how Photoshop represents transparency.

Then make sure that Top, Bottom, Left and Right are all selected at the bottom (they should be by default).

Photoshop instantly trims away the surrounding transparent areas, leaving us with our image cropped as a circle.

To keep the transparency in the corners and avoid filling them with white, save the cropped image as a PNG file which does support transparency.

Name your file and choose where you want to save it, then click Save.

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