Newbie: Turn a square shaped image to a circled one

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Amarios
Dec 5, 2005
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Hello.

I have a wallpaper of a movie and i want to make a cd cover out of it. I imagine a simple conversion of the square to circle shape.

Can this be done in a easy way? This is my first contact with PhotoShop !

Thanks.
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Mike Hyndman
Dec 7, 2005
Amarios,

If you just want to trim the rectangular shape to a circular one you just select the oval marquee tool (top left tool, right click on it if it shows a recangular one)

Hold the shift key down to constrain the shape to a circle and drag to make you selection.

When you are happy with the selection, go to Select>Inverse and then hit delete.
HTH
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Amarios
Dec 8, 2005
Hello Mike,

and thanks for your info.

This is not what i want. I was hoping to "schrink" the four edges of the image so as to loose as few info of the photo as possible. If i do what you propose, i will definetly loose much info.

Any ideas ?

Best regards
Marios
"Mike Hyndman" wrote in message
Amarios,

If you just want to trim the rectangular shape to a circular one you just select the oval marquee tool (top left tool, right click on it if it shows
a
recangular one)

Hold the shift key down to constrain the shape to a circle and drag to
make
you selection.

When you are happy with the selection, go to Select>Inverse and then hit delete.
HTH
MH

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Mike Hyndman
Dec 8, 2005
On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 08:26:19 +0200, "Amarios"
wrote:

Hello Mike,

and thanks for your info.

This is not what i want. I was hoping to "schrink" the four edges of the image so as to loose as few info of the photo as possible. If i do what you propose, i will definetly loose much info.
Any ideas ?
Marios,

See Filter>Distort>Spherize or Edit>Transform>Warp but both of these options will introduce some distortion to the image.
Regards
MH

Times flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
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Amarios
Dec 9, 2005
Thanks ! I will try all !

"Mike Hyndman" wrote in message
On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 08:26:19 +0200, "Amarios"
wrote:

Hello Mike,

and thanks for your info.

This is not what i want. I was hoping to "schrink" the four edges of the image so as to loose as few info of the photo as possible. If i do what you propose, i will definetly loose much info.
Any ideas ?
Marios,

See Filter>Distort>Spherize or Edit>Transform>Warp but both of these options will introduce some distortion to the image.
Regards
MH

Times flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.

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