ProfilePicture Maker

Your profile picture is shown tiny: in comments, in story rings, in search results. At that size, a close crop of your face beats a full-length shot every time. Fill most of the circle with your head and shoulders, and look at the camera.

Simple backgrounds help. A plain colour behind you makes your face stand out at 40 pixels wide, where a busy street scene turns to noise.

A solid or gradient background lets you replace a messy backdrop, if your photo has a transparent background or you leave some space around it with the padding setting. Pick a colour from your brand so your picture looks like you on every app.

A ring works like a frame. Keep it thin, around 20 to 40 pixels at this size, so it doesn't eat into your face. Avoid copying Instagram's own story ring gradient, since followers may think you have a story up.

Every major platform takes a square upload and crops it to a circle itself. This tool exports a 1080 × 1080 square with your circle centred, so nothing important lands outside the crop. Turn on the circle cut-out if you want a PNG with transparent corners for slides, email signatures or websites.

Use the same picture on all your accounts and on your link-in-bio page. People recognise a face and a colour faster than a name.

Your photo is processed by your browser's canvas and never uploaded. Nothing is stored, and closing the tab clears it.

That also means it works for photos you'd rather not hand to a random website, like a new headshot before you've shared it anywhere.

Shrink the preview in your head to the size of a fingernail, because that's how most people will see it.

• Can you still tell it's you at a tiny size?
• Is your face roughly centred, with a little space above your head?
• Does the background contrast with your hair and clothes?
• Is it the same picture you use everywhere else?