Resize a photo for your Facebook profile picture.
Facebook profile pictures display as a square in most placements but a circle in others - keeping the subject centered in a square crop avoids it being cut off by the circular mask.
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Try Free Resume Builder Try Free Invoice BuilderFacebook shows profile pictures as circles in feeds and comments but stores them as squares - keeping your subject centered within the square crop means nothing important gets clipped off by the corners the circular mask hides.
Facebook masks the square profile photo into a circle in most display contexts - centering the subject in the square avoids losing it to that mask.
Crop or reposition the source photo before uploading here so the subject lands in the center of the square output.