Crop Image to Shape — Heart, Star and Circle Photo Cutouts

We offer circle, heart, star, diamond, hexagon, and custom geometric shapes. You can also create unique custom shapes.

Yes. You can resize any shape and reposition it to focus on the most important part of your image.

No, shaped cropping maintains the original image quality within the selected area. Only the shape changes, not the quality.

You can choose from small (200px) to large (1000px) shapes, or set custom dimensions to suit your needs.

Yes. Shaped crops are useful for creating unique social media posts, profile pictures, and creative content.

PNG is the default and keeps everything outside the shape fully transparent, which is best for logos, stickers and overlays. Switch to JPEG if you need a smaller file with a solid background color behind the shape; only PNG preserves transparency.

It controls the compression level of the exported file from 1% (smallest, most compressed) to 100% (largest, sharpest edges). For crisp shape outlines like a star or heart, keep it above 85% — lower values can introduce visible blockiness right at the shape's edge.

Yes — once you switch Output Format to JPEG, a Background Color picker appears so you can fill the area outside the shape with any solid color instead of transparency. This is useful when a platform doesn't support transparent PNGs and needs a flat-colored image instead.

Use the Width and Height +/- steppers under Resize Crop to nudge the shape to an exact pixel dimension, shown live as you click. You can still drag the shape to reposition it or use the blue handles for freeform resizing on desktop or touch.

For print or platforms without transparency support, pick JPEG format, push the Quality slider to 95-100% to avoid compression artifacts on the shape's outline, and set a Background Color that matches your brand or print background. For web/social use where the shape should float over any background, keep PNG with its automatic transparency instead.

Beyond the classic circle, square and heart, you can crop into triangle, star, diamond, oval, hexagon, octagon, pentagon, cross, moon, cloud, lightning bolt, arrow, teardrop, wave and five different flower outlines — 22 shapes in total, picked from the shape grid in the Shape panel. Every shape shares the same crop box, so you can switch shapes after positioning without having to redo your framing.

No — PNG is a lossless format, so the Quality slider only has an effect once you switch Output Format to JPEG, where it controls compression. If you're exporting a transparent PNG, you can ignore the slider entirely; it only becomes relevant when you pick a compressed format.

Yes — Pixoate supports batch and bulk processing. Switch to Batch mode, add up to 60 images on Premium or 200 on Pro, set your options once, and every image is processed with the same settings before you download a single ZIP. Bulk processing is a Premium feature; the output uses the same quality and settings as single mode.

Yes — with bulk processing you configure the settings a single time and they apply to every item in the batch — up to 60 images on Premium or 200 on Pro. There is no need to repeat the setup per item, and Temporary uploaded and generated files are processed securely and deleted automatically.

Almost always one of three things. The file is over the 20 MB free upload limit — Premium takes 50 MB and Pro 120 MB. The format is not one this tool accepts, so check the list shown on the upload panel. Or the file is not really the format its name says: renaming a file does not change what is inside it, and that is the reason a valid-looking image gets refused.

Cropping, rotating, resizing and framing keep your original pixels — quality loss almost always comes from somewhere else. The two usual causes are enlarging a small image past the resolution it actually has, and re-saving a JPG over and over, because each save throws away a little more. Start from the largest original you still have, and export PNG when the image contains text, screenshots or flat color.

Crop by Shape supports free standard use within the published processing allowances. Free downloads are clean — no watermark. No signup is required for standard tool use. Photo effects and AI edits have a web-size limit on Free, with the original-resolution result available through Premium or one credit. Crop, resize, rotate, compress and convert stay full size. Premium supports batches of up to 60 files, with the applicable plan limits shown before processing.

No — Crop by Shape runs in the browser on desktop and phone. There is nothing to install, no trial to start, and no license to buy before you can see whether it does what you need. Try it on the file you are actually stuck with rather than a sample.