There is a way to get rounded crops with MS Paint, but how you do it is somewhat backward.
You make the frame you want and grab that as a brush, with the transparent pasting button selected.
See: http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c358/ChuckItAll/crop2.jpg
I used your example, as a frame on a picture of mine.
Note: You MUST make sure that the center of your brush.
All I have is MSpaint. Any way for me to crop the below via MSpaint?
Note it's just a sample, though it's basically the gist of what I'll need - i.e. I need to crop off the excess junk surrounding the cylindrical shape, and just retain the cylindrical shape to use as button IMG.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v32/JudySmith/testbutton.gif

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