Circle crop

While cropping images is more of a task for Photoshop or our online image cropper, you can easily do basic crops in Adobe Illustrator to save time.

You can use any shape to crop the picture, but I will show you using a circle for this example.

Step-by-Step to Crop a Photo Into a Circle

1. Go to File > Place
2. Place the Image Into the Document
3. Select the Ellipse Tool ()
4. Click and Drag to Add a Circle to the Page
5. Select the Circle and Image With the Selection Tool ()
6. Go to Object > Clipping Mask > Make
7. Use the Fly-Out Menu Shortcut
8. Check Your Canvas

There are a few ways to crop images in Illustrator, such as using the Crop function.

How to crop an image in illustrator to a shape

However, if you want to trim the shape into a circle, you will need to follow the clipping mask method below. I will demonstrate by cropping this lady wearing sunglasses image from Unsplash.

Go to File > Place

First, you need to open an image in Illustrator or place the image onto the page of your project.

Go to File > Place or use the shortcut + + on Windows or + + on