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Add Soft Rounded Corners to Photos and Screenshots

Give photos neat rounded corners with a transparent background.

Add Soft Rounded Corners to Photos and Screenshots

Give photos neat rounded corners with a transparent background.

Why use PDFWix to round PDFs

• Real transparency: The corners are empty pixels, not white squares, so the image sits cleanly on any colour.
• Consistent across sizes: A percentage radius keeps a set of screenshots looking like a matching set.
• Optional ring: A thin coloured ring lifts a light screenshot off a light page without any design work.
• Batch friendly: Round a whole set of app screenshots for a landing page in one pass.

Common uses for rounding PDFs

• Softening app screenshots for a landing page or pitch deck
• Making rounded team photos for an About page
• Preparing rounded product tiles for a shop or catalogue
• Turning a square logo into a rounded app-style tile
• Creating pill-shaped banner images for a newsletter

How to Round the Corners of a Picture

1. Add your images — Drag in JPG, PNG or WebP screenshots or photos — several at once is fine.
2. Set the roundness — Drag the slider or pick Subtle, Rounded, Very round or Pill. It is a percentage of the shorter side.
3. Optional ring — Switch on a ring and pick its colour to separate the image from a busy background.
4. Download — Click Round the corners. You get a transparent PNG, or a white-background JPG if you chose that.

Tips for rounding corners

• Keep PNG for transparency — A JPG cannot hold transparent corners — it fills them with white instead.
• Crop to ratio first — Set the shape you want with [Crop Image](/crop-image), then round the corners.
• Match your brand radius — Pick one percentage and reuse it everywhere so all your images look like a set.
• Shrink afterwards — Run the finished PNG through [Compress Image](/compress-image) to keep pages fast.

Ways to get rounded corners

Comparing baked-in rounding with the alternatives.

Related tools

• Circle Crop Image
• Crop Image
• Resize Image
• Watermark Image

Quick answer

To round the corners of an image free: open PDFWix Round Image Corners, add your photo, drag the roundness slider (12% suits most screenshots), and click Round the corners. The PNG downloads with genuinely transparent corners — set 50% on a square image for a perfect circle.

How PDFWix Round Image Corners works

PDFWix Round Image Corners builds a rounded-rectangle path on the browser canvas using arcTo, clips the drawing area to it, then draws the source image inside the clip. Pixels outside the path become fully transparent in the saved PNG, so the rounded shape travels with the file instead of relying on CSS. The corner radius is set as a percentage of the shorter side, so the same setting looks consistent across photos of different sizes.

How much roundness should you use?

Because the radius is a percentage of the shorter side, the same number works on a phone screenshot and a wide banner. Around 6% reads as a subtle softening, the kind used on cards and dashboard tiles. 12% is the familiar app-screenshot look. 25% gives a strongly rounded panel that suits playful branding, and 50% turns a square into a circle and a wide photo into a pill or stadium shape. Save as PNG whenever the picture will sit on a coloured background, a slide or a dark-mode page, because only PNG carries the transparency. If the destination demands a JPG, switch on the white-background option and the corners will be filled with white instead. For a strictly circular avatar with an optional coloured ring, Circle Crop is the more direct tool.

At a glance

Radius range: 1%–50% of the short side · Corners: Genuinely transparent in PNG · Processing: 100% in your browser

The bottom line

For circular profile pictures use Circle Crop. To change the shape of the frame first, Crop Image sets exact ratios, and Resize Image fixes the final dimensions.

Frequently asked questions

How do I give a photo curved edges?

Open PDFWix Round Image Corners, move the roundness slider until the edges curve the way you want, and download the PNG. The corners outside the curve stay see-through.

How do I round the corners of an image?

Open PDFWix Round Image Corners, add the image, set the roundness and click Round the corners. The PNG downloads with transparent corners.

Are the rounded corners transparent?

Yes, in the PNG output. Only the optional JPG output fills the corners with white.

Can I make a circle instead?

Set the slider to 50% on a square image, or use Circle Crop for a dedicated circular result.

What radius should I use for screenshots?

About 12% of the shorter side matches the familiar rounded app-screenshot look.

Can I round several images at once?

Yes. Add a batch and they all get the same radius and optional ring.

Is my image uploaded?

No. The shape is drawn by your own browser and the file never leaves your device.

For round avatars, Circle Crop is quicker. To set the frame shape first, use Crop Image, and Compress Image keeps the final PNG small.