circularize an image with imagick

Question

Trying to take a rectangular photo, crop it into a square region, and then mask it into a circular with a transparent background.

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Answer 1

There's also another workaround that I suggest here :

// create an imagick object of your image
$image = new \Imagick('/absolute/path/to/your/image');
// crop square your image from its center (100px witdh/height in my example)
$image->cropThumbnailImage(100, 100);
// then round the corners (0.5x the width and height)
$image->roundCorners(50, 50);
// force the png format for transparency
$image->setImageFormat("png");
// write the new image
$image->writeImage('/absolute/path/to/your/new/image');
// done!

Many thanks to all previous answers and contributors that lead me to this code!

Feel free to test/comment my solution!