Circular Avatar Crop and Background Cleanup

Prepare a portrait for a circular avatar. The face should survive a small circle. Clean only the background. SOURCE Where it will appear: [SLACK | LINKEDIN | APP] Background problem: [CLUTTER | FINE] Headroom and whether a hat or hair touches the top: [NOTES] PLAN 1) The square crop first, eyes above the center, space around the hair because the circle clips corners. Show what the circle will cut (shoulders, a hand near the face). 2) Background cleanup only outside the hair. No frequency-separation beauty pass. 3) A check at 48 pixels: eyes still visible, no thin gap at the edge, no leftover object in the corner. 4) Exports: a square PNG and a note on whether the platform applies its own circle. 5) If the source is a wide group photo, say a new crop cannot invent resolution, and when to reshoot. Do not change the face. Do not extend hair with a generative fill unless I asked, and then keep it off the face.