You can crop an image based on any custom shape. Do this by having your own custom image as a mask for cropping, setting the overlay parameter as your mask image's public ID and setting the flags parameter to cutter (in URLs: l_<mask_image>,fl_cutter).

Here's the original image:

https://res.cloudinary.com/demo/image/upload/pasta.jpg

The following PNG image was uploaded to Cloudinary with the 'hexagon_sample' public ID:

https://res.cloudinary.com/demo/image/upload/hexagon_sample.png

Now, you can use this image with the cutter flag. For example, when applying it to an image with the 'pasta' public ID:

https://res.cloudinary.com/demo/image/upload/w_173,h_200,c_fill/l_hexagon_sample,fl_cutter/pasta.png

You can also add the relative flag to automatically adjust the dimensions of the mask to match the resulting image you need. For example:

https://res.cloudinary.com/demo/image/upload/l_hexagon_sample,fl_cutter.relative,w_1.0,h_1.0/pasta.png

The mask image can also be a semi-transparent PNG file to make the edges smoother. Here's an example of an uploaded mask:

https://res.cloudinary.com/demo/image/upload/hexagon_feather_sample.png

And here's a sample result while creating a 200x220 face detection based thumbnail of an uploaded image:

https://res.cloudinary.com/demo/image/upload/w_200,h_220,c_thumb,g_face/l_hexagon_feather_sample,fl_cutter/face_left.png