How to cut a rounded corner picture?

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Sep 6, 2006
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I have a picture 800*200
I wanna make it to rounded corner, How can I do so?

Thanks for help!
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jenelisepasceci
Sep 7, 2006
"Cylix" wrote:

I have a picture 800*200
I wanna make it to rounded corner, How can I do so?

Thanks for help!

A computer picture will alwas be rectangular, you can only have a rounded corner picture on a colored or transparent rectangular background.

How this is done depends on the version of PS you use. With a version which supports custom shapes, a rounded rectangle shape with the desired radius is created first. Then, a selection is made from the path by clicking the small black triangle button on the top right side of the paths-palette and hitting Make Selection…, the selection is inverted (Ctrl Shift I) and filled with the desired background color,
e.g. white.
With older versions of PS, a circular selection is created first by pressing the Shift key and using the circular selection tool. This selection is then moved to one corner. It will snap to the borders automagically. This selection is saved. Then the selection is moved to the next corner and added to the first saved selection (Selection – Save Selection – Channel: Alpha 1 – Tic "Add to selection". This is repeated for the 3rd and 4th corner. Now, the saved selection of four circles is loaded and a rectangular selection is added twice, first from the top middle of the upper left to the bottom middle of the lower right circle and a second one from the left middle of the upper left to the right middle of the lower right circle. Press the Shift key to add a selection to an existing selection! Now the selection is inverted (Ctrl Shift I). The foreground color swatch is set to the desired background color and the selection filled by pressing Alt Del – or the selection is set to transparent by hitting the Del key. Finaly, trash the alpha channel. Transparency is only possible when the image is not on the background layer and it can only be handled with certain file-types (gif, png, tiff, and of course, psd).

Peter
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Cylix
Sep 8, 2006
Thanks Peter!
I done it! It is really nice.
TK
Tom Kaczmarek
Sep 9, 2006
You also might consider this method: creating a vector mask using the rounded rectangle tool.

First duplicate or rename your background layer. Choose the rounded reactangle tool and set your corner radious and choose the "paths" option. Now simply click/drag your rectangle over your image. To use this path as a mask, Layer>Add Vector Mask>Current path.

If you duplicated your BG layer turn off the original’s visibility to see your rounded corners. If your simply changed the BG layer’s name the rounded corners will appear once you’ve created the vector mask.

The benefit of this method is the flexibiity of the vectorr mask and the non-destructive nature of masks.

Hope this helps!

Tom

Peter Wollenberg wrote:
"Cylix" wrote:

I have a picture 800*200
I wanna make it to rounded corner, How can I do so?

Thanks for help!

A computer picture will alwas be rectangular, you can only have a rounded corner picture on a colored or transparent rectangular background.

How this is done depends on the version of PS you use. With a version which supports custom shapes, a rounded rectangle shape with the desired radius is created first. Then, a selection is made from the path by clicking the small black triangle button on the top right side of the paths-palette and hitting Make Selection…, the selection is inverted (Ctrl Shift I) and filled with the desired background color,
e.g. white.
With older versions of PS, a circular selection is created first by pressing the Shift key and using the circular selection tool. This selection is then moved to one corner. It will snap to the borders automagically. This selection is saved. Then the selection is moved to the next corner and added to the first saved selection (Selection – Save Selection – Channel: Alpha 1 – Tic "Add to selection". This is repeated for the 3rd and 4th corner. Now, the saved selection of four circles is loaded and a rectangular selection is added twice, first from the top middle of the upper left to the bottom middle of the lower right circle and a second one from the left middle of the upper left to the right middle of the lower right circle. Press the Shift key to add a selection to an existing selection! Now the selection is inverted (Ctrl Shift I). The foreground color swatch is set to the desired background color and the selection filled by pressing Alt Del – or the selection is set to transparent by hitting the Del key. Finaly, trash the alpha channel. Transparency is only possible when the image is not on the background layer and it can only be handled with certain file-types (gif, png, tiff, and of course, psd).
Peter

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