Then click in the shape box and drag it to where you want it.Then use the triangle’s own anchor points to adjust the lengths of the individual sides and the positions of their corners.Click and drag the shape box’s anchor points to set the size of the whole triangle.Now just adjust its size, placement, and exact shape. You can then combine shapes however you want by using new layers. Use Place Shape and then set the kind of shape to use for the crop. ZPS then automatically changes the placed shape into a triangle. Meanwhile, controls for choosing the type of shape and for its settings are shown in the right panel. This makes a small white rectangle appear on the picture. Then hide the bottom layer.Ĭlick the small white triangle by the Add Layer button, and then in the menu that this shows, click Place Shape. But you’ll need some work with layers for this.įirst open the photo you want in the Editor, and click Duplicate Layer to copy it. In Zoner Photo Studio X, you can also do more complicated crops. That will make sure that the cropped-away areas are transparent. Don’t forget to save your cropped picture to PNG. If you saved the picture to JPG, it would replace the transparent area with white instead. That way, the area around the circular crop will truly be transparent. Wrap up by saving the photo to PNG format. That gets rid of empty space in the picture. Then use Crop and Rotate (C) to crop your picture with your round or elliptical crop, so that the visible part fills in the part of the picture you want. In those cases, you can finalize things by using Move and Transform (V) to shift the image layer so that it precisely fits your selection. Sometimes after you’ve made your selection, you might find that you need to move it a little. Hold down Shift until you’ve got the selection you want. That makes ZPS turn your ellipse into a perfect circle. Just hold down the Shift key while you’re creating your elliptical selection. And your elliptical selection is done.Ī circular crop works the same way. Then right-click on the layer with your selection and use Mask > Reveal Selection in the menu that appears. 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.
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