6th September 2002
Question: I don't need the edges on my JPEG files, so are there any software packages out there that will allow me to cut off this excess canvas space and make a round JPEG?
Answer: may be wrong with this one but, my answer is no. I have yet to find a program that either offers a circular canvas or allows you to cut the canvas into a circular design. That canvas space makes little difference in file size if there isn't any color on it. Although it isn't a true circular JPEG you could always make a transparent canvas and then put a your image on that canvas and crop the picture into a circle. That would be the closest thing I can think of. To tell you the truth, I don't think you can have a circular canvas at this time because of the technical aspects of a graphic. It would be very hard from a vector point of view to work with a circular canvas, not to mention the calculations that the machine would have to make to keep the pixels and DPI correct in the graphic. I'm sorry, but I hope this at least gives you a workaround or idea to make a round JPEG of sorts.