Circular crop

April 22nd, 2025
I am looking for a way to make circular crop. I need it to crop photos made using an ultra fisheye lens to cut out unwanted edge "intrusions" such as my feet or fingers. Anyone know of an app (Apple Mac) that can do this? Thanks for any help.
April 22nd, 2025
You can do it with Photoscape X, not sure if there is still a free version. Look at my latest post.
@allsop
April 22nd, 2025
@markp Thanks for the suggestion I will have a look. Cheers.
April 22nd, 2025
I used PhotoscapeX too but it's not an app

http://x.photoscape.org/
April 22nd, 2025
@30pics4jackiesdiamond @markp I have found it as an app in Mac App Store, trying to work out how to do it now. Their "Help" consists of lots of videos without commentary! I have managed to do a circular crop (have to have the Pro version though) which is great except it now has a white background, I am sure there will be a way to preserve the black background just have to keep practicing.
April 22nd, 2025
@markp @30pics4jackiesdiamond See my 365 Album of today. https://365project.org/allsop/365/2025-04-22
Many thanks for your help.
April 23rd, 2025
@allsop if I want a black background I make a black layer in Affinity and paste on the round crop. Then crop square.
April 23rd, 2025
You can do a circular crop in Photoshop
April 24th, 2025
@30pics4jackiesdiamond @ankers70 Thanks guys. Suzanne you are right and I guess Photoshop is the one most folk would use but I object to Adobe's pricing structure where you have to pay time and again to use their products. Also in this case Photioscape X does exactly what I want, plus the developers of my editing software of choice (Exposure 7) have responded to my query with them and sent me detailed instructions on how to do it in Exposure 7. Win win!
April 24th, 2025
Actually, I have done a circular crop in Affinity!! I'm just lazy and go to PhotoX!!

Off to look up Exposure7!
April 24th, 2025
@30pics4jackiesdiamond I can thoroughly recommend Exposure 7 it does everything I need/want to do but the best thing about it is that the support is so good, Nate Zellmer (the support guy) always responds quickly and sorts out any problems or requests for help in super fast time. An example of this is hat I asked for help on this topic on April 21st and got the detailed how to from Nate on the 22nd! That to my mind is what service should be but so rarely is. Hope you find it useful.
April 28th, 2025
If you're into open source software, try GIMP https://www.gimp.org/downloads/

It's free, and designed to be similar to photoshop.

Here's a tutorial. It's a little tedious, but works. https://www.guidingtech.com/crop-image-into-circle-gimp/
April 28th, 2025
@stephomy Thanks for the suggestion Stephomy.
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