Hi, I'm new, great forum! Have a question...

Hi, I'm new to this forum, and it looks great! I'm gonna enjoy this place. :D

Anyway, I have what should be an easy question.
I am using Photoshop 5.5, and was wondering, how can I round the corners on a picture?
If I take a normal square picture that I have, how can I make the corners rounded off instead of 90 degree angles? Any help would be GREAT, thanks!

Hi and greatly welcome to TeamPS. You will enjoy your stay, I hope...

Now, If you have a pic thats smaller then the canvas you select that and go to channels, create a new channel filter gaussian blur it heavily a few times so that you see...kinda blurred rounded edges. Then, still in channels and still selected, you go image/adjustments/ levels and slide them slides and you'll get something that looks like rounded corners...

Hmmm...im pretty dumb...where is 'channels'? Thanks for the help so far.

Hehe, I'm dumb aswell...But if you do not know the basics of PS, this might be difficult. Try, in such case, to find tut's that covers the PS basics and try to learn them before you go on trying to achieve great art (you just might get reeeealy dumb otherwise)
Hm, that was just a tip !

Now, channels is one of three "tab's" located at the layers palette. Layers, channels, and paths. You should click on the channels tab and create a new channel (will be called alpha 1) and in that channel (wich you activate by clicking it) you gaussian blur the selection (ie 4 times, starting with the amount of 10, depending on the size of the selection. Then dividing the amount each time), and finaly you change the levels on that layer, before
goin back to the layers tab, activate it and ctrl+shift+I in order to inverse the selection and press delete...

BTW, a good place to start the PS tour from scratch is At The Photoshop Guru's place. Start with the newbie stuff.

*if you're not such a newb, I do appologize ;)...*

Hmm that was a wierd way you are makeing round corners Patteman...
Okey I know there are a million ways...
But I guess if you are new to PS an easy way would be to just make a square...fill it with a color, change the ellitical marquee tool...(lol at the real name for this tool)...well the tool that you make squares, rounds and these things...
Then change it to the round one and just make it as you want your corner to look then take select inverse and use the rubber to take away the corner...

Pattemans method (well not strictly his;)) is pretty foolproof. Channels take up a lot less memory and produce a smaller filesize. It also has the benefit of being able to be adjustable. Layer masking would probably be the way I would do it.

Welcome to the forums - here's what I would do:

1. Hit CTRL-A to select the whole canvas.
2. Go Window>Info to bring up the info and note how big the selection (therefore the whole canvas) is.
3. Then click and hold on the rectangle tool. Choose the rounded rectangle tool.
4. Find the spot in the options bar where you can choose to set the dimensions of the rectangle.
5. Set it to the dimensions that you noted earlier.
6. Set the radius, which is how much the sides will be rounded.
7. Center the rectangle in the middle of your image.
8. CTRL-click the layer with the rectangle on it.
9. Click the layer with the image on it. (If it is the background layer, you will need to duplicate it (CTRL-J) and then delete the one with background properties (drag it into the trash can).)
10. The selection should still be active - click the layer mask icon in the bottom of the layers pallete. (It's a rectangle with a circle in it).
11. File>Save for Web.
12. Post here to show us your results.
[or]
13. Post here and ask if you get stuck.

tom

Hmmm...I dont see any 'rounded rectangle tool'. :(

Is this on 5.5?

That's on 7. That's why I brought up the channels thing...

Ok thanks, I'll mess around with your method a little bit and see what I can do.