Although Photoshop Elements 12 enables you to crop your images as rectangular shapes, the Toolbox -- accessible in Expert mode -- features the Elliptical Marquee tool to help you select a round area.

Sometimes you might want to add a circular photo of the author on the last page of a text or presentations. Word and ...

Whether you want to focus on a particular part of a picture, remove distracting detail from the edges of a graphic, or reshape an image to fit a specific layout, the Crop tool in Microsoft Word, Excel ...

The cropping tools of Powerpoint 2010 can help you to cut and remove unwanted portions of your images. You can remove or hide part of an image, simply by reducing the horizontal and vertical edges.

You may place an image into Paint.NET but want to crop and rotate the image to have a tilted look. Paint.net has tools that allow the user to crop and rotate the image according to the user’s wants.