What size should a profile picture be?

An 800 × 800 export is safe everywhere — Instagram displays at 320 pixels, YouTube at 800, and X at 400. Uploading at 800 leaves room for high-resolution screens without wasting bandwidth.

Why is my profile picture cut off at the corners?

Because platforms display the square file as a circle, so all four corners are always lost. Zoom and reposition until what matters sits inside the circular preview, not merely inside the square frame.

What is the difference between the square and circular files?

The square file is the one to upload, since the platform rounds it itself. The circular file has a transparent background and is useful when you need a round image inside another design, such as a media kit or a slide.

Image & Canvas

Profile Picture Maker

Pick an image, set its position and zoom, then download a square or circular profile picture.

Choose or drop an image PROCESSED ON YOUR DEVICE · NEVER UPLOADED

Zoom 100% Move across Move up or down Background

1:1

SQUARE — FOR UPLOADING

CIRCLE — HOW IT ACTUALLY SHOWS

What this is

A profile picture maker crops an image to 1:1 and exports it at the size platforms use. Almost every platform displays a profile picture as a circle even though the file is square, and that is where the usual problem comes from: what looks safely inside a square preview gets cut at the corners once it renders round. The preview here shows both at once so the surprise does not arrive after upload.

How it works

When a square image renders as a circle, roughly 21% of its area disappears — all of it from the corners. Anything that matters belongs inside the circle, and ideally a little in from its edge, because some interfaces add a ring or a badge that covers the circle's rim.

An 800 × 800 export covers every major platform and leaves room for high-resolution displays. Uploading something far larger adds no sharpness, because the platform downsizes it anyway, and only slows the upload.

How to use it

Choose an image The file is read on your device and uploaded nowhere.
Set zoom and position Watch the circular preview rather than the square one — that is how it will appear.
Download the shape you need The square version for uploading, the transparent circular one for design work.

Common questions

What size should a profile picture be?: An 800 × 800 export is safe everywhere — Instagram displays at 320 pixels, YouTube at 800, and X at 400. Uploading at 800 leaves room for high-resolution screens without wasting bandwidth.
Why is my profile picture cut off at the corners?: Because platforms display the square file as a circle, so all four corners are always lost. Zoom and reposition until what matters sits inside the circular preview, not merely inside the square frame.
What is the difference between the square and circular files?: The square file is the one to upload, since the platform rounds it itself. The circular file has a transparent background and is useful when you need a round image inside another design, such as a media kit or a slide.

Notes

Images are processed in the browser and never uploaded.