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Circle Cropping An Image

halfhyde_design — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 03:21:48 GMT

When designing t-shirts I do NOT like my images to be square or rectangular, I want to have the image on the shirt to be circle shaped. I have come up short on a good solution. Creative Fabrica has a circle crop but it never covers my whole image and is unusable.

I have also found numerous websites offering free circle crops. Same story...circle never covers my whole image. Unusable.

Have also tried layer masks in Photoshop and Affinity Photo and Designer and the mechanics that I see in Youtube tutorial videos never seem to work the same for me when I follow their instructions on my own.

Anyone faced similar challenges in going for a decent circle crop? Any suggestions?

Thanks

Re: Circle Cropping An Image

Baylee — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 06:49:39 GMT

Is there some reason you don't want to just mask it in the design tool instead of cropping?. Use the oval element in the design; make the circle any size you want, then select both your image layer and the oval layer and click on mask.

Re: Circle Cropping An Image

BKMuir — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 18:44:22 GMT

@halfhyde_design Here is one of my shirts created with the mask that @Baylee is referring to.

T-Shirt - Relaxing Palm Trees
by ArtistRepurposeStore

Re: Circle Cropping An Image

Jadendreamer13 — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 00:59:54 GMT

In photoshop, find the approximate center of your design, then use the selection tool to draw a circle. Then select Edit>Transform Selection. Handles will appear, so you can modify the selection without changing the design. Now select Edit>Modify Selection>Inverse and delete the background you don’t want. Then select Edit>Trim Transparent Areas. Save it as a .png file.

Re: Circle Cropping An Image

Barbara — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 11:56:04 GMT

@halfhyde_design

Have you tried the method that @Baylee mentioned? If not, you should. It's exactly what you're looking for, and it's also the easiest, most versatile method.

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Re: Circle Cropping An Image

NigelSutherland — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 15:45:54 GMT

Use the mask feature with whatever overlaying shape element you choose. Its simple.

Re: Circle Cropping An Image

halfhyde_design — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 11:53:51 GMT

I ended up using the mask method. But I found it more to my liking in Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo.

Re: Circle Cropping An Image

halfhyde_design — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 11:54:37 GMT

what version of Photoshop are you using?

Re: Circle Cropping An Image

Barbara — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 14:58:24 GMT

The perc to using Zazzle's masking is not needing to have more than one version of an image--circle, oval, rectangle, square, diamond, triangle--any can be used on the same uploaded image. Or, you can create more shapes for masking with SVGs.

Jumping in with your question to @Jadendreamer13 , I use Photoshop CS3 because I've never found anything in the newer versions that I thought I'd want to use.

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