Use it to mark the part of the picture that you want to be visible in your crop. Now reach for the Selection Tools and choose Elliptical Selection. You can show the original again at any time during your edits by clicking that icon again. To get a better idea of the changes you’re making, hide the lower layer by clicking its eye icon. To copy a layer, select it and click the Duplicate Layer button. You’ll find it in the Layers toolbar in the right panel. Then copy the layer with the picture by clicking Duplicate Layer. So in Zoner Photo Studio X, open the photo that you want to crop in the Editor. How to Make Circular and Elliptical Cropsįor simple shapes like circles and ellipses, you can get by with even just one layer. And you can even crop a picture into a polygon if you really want to. Using layers, you can create even quite complex crops. But there isn’t a way to crop photos like that on a computer… or maybe there is? Actually, you can produce a circular or elliptical crop in just a few clicks.Įven though it may seem like cropping a photo to a circle is complicated, you actually just need to be able to manage basic work with layers. And this one here an elliptical or maybe triangular one.” You may have found yourself saying something like this before.
“This photo could really use a circular crop.