A colleague asked me today about cropping a square image into a circle using Google Drawing. This process is called masking, and it can be done quickly and easily not only in Drawing, but also in Slides. In fact, you are not limited to masking your image with a circle; you can crop itinto a number of different shapes. The illustrations below show the process in a drawing, but it works the same for images on slides.
Click on the image you want mask, then click the dropdown arrow next to the crop icon.
You can choose from any of the four categories of masks. Select acategory, then click on the shape you want.
The mask is applied to show as much as possible of the original image. You can resize and adjust itby dragging on the blue handles.
Resulting image:
To add a frame, adjust the width and color of the line while the image is selected.
You can reset your image and start over with the click of a button.
Express yourcreativity by using different shapes to mask yourimages.
Original image used in this post:
By Jessie Eastland (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (//creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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