How to Crop an Image into a Circle in Photoshop May 22, 2021, 10:24 am EDT | 1 min read In Adobe Photoshop, it’s easy to quickly crop an image into a non-rectangular shape such as a circle, which can come in handy when visualizing round social media headshots. Here’s how to do it. First, open the image that you want to crop with Photoshop on your Mac or Windows computer. In the Photoshop window, find the “Layers” panel, which is located in the sidebar on the right. In the Layers panel, find the “Background” layer and click the lock icon next to it. If there’s no lock icon, you don’t have to do anything.