Have you ever come across somebody's blog or
website and they have those nicely cropped
circular photos of themselves? And you're
wondering how the heck do I do that? Well in
today's video, I'm showing you how you can use
my favorite free tool Canva, in order to
quickly and easily crop your photos into
circles to use on your blog or website or
marketing materials.
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All right, so let's dive right in! So if you
haven't already set up an account with Canva,
head on over to canva.com and sign up for a
free account. Now, I've been using Canva for
years in my business and I've never needed
anything more than the free version. But just
a heads up that if you do want to make your
cropped circular photos into ones that have a
transparent background, you will need the paid
version of Canva. But if you are just going
with something that has a white background or
whatever color you want, then the free version
is perfectly fine.
Okay, so once you head into Canva, you can go
up here to create a design and choose the
dimensions that you want for your image. I'm
just going to go here to Instagram post, and
then Canva will load. And then to make your
circle cropped image, you want to go over here
into Elements and then find a frame that is a
circle. So it's the first one here. Click that
and resize it to take up the entire space of
your Canva image. So once you've done that,
you can go on over here to Uploads and then
upload whatever image you want to create and
crop into a circle.
So I have a bunch here already, but if you
want to upload, you can click this button here
and upload whatever image you want. So I'm
just going to select this one and drag it into
the frame. And it's good to go! If you double
click on the image, you can resize and
re-position your image if it doesn't fit, if
you want it to be zoomed in or zoomed out.
Once you're done, you can click the Check and
Done and you are done.
So when you're happy with it, you can go up
here to Download and choose to download that.
I would hit download. But if you do want to
have the transparent background that is a paid
feature in Canva... So if you do sign up for
the paid version, you'll be able to click the
Transparent background here before you
download in order to get the transparent
background around your circle.
But if you don't have the budget for that, you
can simply make the background color of your
image match whatever background you're going
to be putting it on. So if your blog
background is white, just make it the same
color and it'll look just as good.
So once you hit download, it will prepare your
design and download it. And then there you
have it, you have your circular cropped image!
And that's it -- super quick, simple and easy.
Now, I'd love to know where are you planning
on using your circular cropped images that you
made in Canva? Is it for your blog, or your
website, or other marketing materials? Comment
below. I'd love to hear what you're doing with
it.
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