Crop a photo into a shape
Lay a shape over your photo — a heart, a star, or one you draw yourself — move, resize and rotate it, then cut everything outside (or inside) away. The result is a PNG with real transparency.
How it works
Everything happens in your own browser: the photo is never uploaded. Choose one of the standard shapes (heart, stars, diamond, circle, square) or draw your own closed shape point by point. Drag it into place, set the size and rotation, and press Cut — everything outside the shape becomes transparent. Flip the mode to punch the shape out of the photo instead, and use the strength slider for a partial fade (0–100%).
You can cut multiple times on the same photo — each cut works on the result of the previous one. Download saves a PNG with real transparency, ready for stickers, logos, collages or print work.
Twenty shapes, your own drawing, or your own SVG
The Shapes panel goes well beyond hearts and stars: basic geometry, badges and shields, and objects like the house, the balloon, the cloud and the bone — plus two routes to a shape nobody else has. Draw your own shape lets you click point by point around anything in the photo and close the outline; Import an SVG shape takes a vector file from your design program and turns it into a reusable cutter, stored in your browser so it is still there next visit. That import is the quiet power feature: a company logo, a mascot, a custom frame — imported once, then applied to any number of photos. Whichever route you take, the mode choice stays the same: Keep the shape removes everything around it, Punch the shape out removes everything inside it, and the Transparency strength slider runs from a subtle 30% fade to a full 100% cut.
Stretching a shape, not just scaling it
Shapes here are not locked to their original proportions. Grab the frame around a placed shape: the corner grips stretch both directions at once, the edge grips stretch one side only, and the opposite side stays anchored where you put it — so a circle pulls into an ellipse, a square into a letterbox, a heart into something wider or taller than the standard. The stretching works under rotation too, along the shape's own axes rather than the screen's. Drag from the middle to move the whole shape, use the Size and Rotation sliders for even adjustments, and remember you can cut more than once: each Cut! works on the result of the previous one, and Undo last cut steps back if a cut lands wrong.
Auto-crop, and the two tools this one feeds
The download is automatically cropped to the smallest frame around what survived the cut — a small heart cut from a large photo saves as a small heart, not a huge transparent canvas with a heart lost in the middle. That makes the PNG immediately usable, and two neighbours are built to receive it. For montages, drop the cut-out into /photo-montage and it sits cleanly on any background, no box around it. And for difficult photos, try this order: when /image-transparency struggles to key a background — busy scenery, colours too close to the subject — cut the troublesome zone away here first, then finish the fine keying there. Removing the hard part with one drawn outline before the colour tools take over is usually about twice as fast as fighting the whole photo at once. The free tier covers five images per day at up to 10 MB each, with a small CONVERTBURDA.COM mark on free results; nothing is ever uploaded.
