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Email Address:. The Ultimate Photoshop Resource. Customer Support Cart. Toggle navigation. Rounding corners of anything in Photoshop Tutorial Colin Smith In this tutorial, Im going to show you how to smoothen of the sharp corners of your graphics. If you are looking for something a bit more advanced, or how to round the corners of a rasterized shape, read on… 1 Create a new layer, Make a shape, select it and fill with foreground color.
Click on the RGB thumbnail to select all channels 2 7 Go back to the layers palette. In fact, not only can we give the photo rounded corners, we have complete control over just how rounded they are! I've opened a new blank Photoshop document, filled the Background layer with black to help make it easier for us to see what's happening, and then dragged my photo into the new document.
We can see the document here, showing the photo in front of the black background:. And if we look in the Layers palette, we can see the photo sitting on its own layer, "Layer 1", above the Background layer:.
With "Layer 1", or whichever layer your photo happens to be on, selected, click on the Layer Mask icon at the bottom of the Layers palette:. Nothing will appear to have happened in your document, but if we look at the layer in the Layers palette, we can see that we now have a layer mask thumbnail to the right of the layer's preview thumbnail:.
We won't be covering layer masks in this tutorial since we won't be using them, but if you want to learn more about layer masks, be sure to check out our full Understanding Layer Masks tutorial in our Photoshop Basics section. Okay, so if we're not going to be using the layer mask, why did we just add it?
Well, we're about to do something that many people never do. We're going to see something that many people never see. Because we're not "many people". We're different from them. Those people click on an icon once, see what it does, and then take a nap.
It never occurs to them that maybe, just maybe, if they were to click on that exact same icon a second time, well, there's at least a slim chance that something else might happen! And it's too bad for them because in this case, something else will happen! I know it sounds crazy, but now that we've added our layer mask, click once again on that exact same Layer Mask icon:. If you have "Show Tool Tips" enabled in your Photoshop Preferences, you may already have noticed something a little different when you hovered your mouse over the icon.
No longer does the tool tip say "Add layer mask" like it normally does. Instead, it now says "Add vector mask" , and as soon as we click on the icon, if we look at the layer in the Layers palette, we get what appears to be a second layer mask thumbnail to the right of the first one. The difference is, it's not a second layer mask thumbnail. It's a vector mask thumbnail :. Both the layer mask thumbnail on the left and the vector mask thumbnail on the right look exactly the same, but there's a big difference between a layer mask and a vector mask.
Both are used to show and hide different parts of the layer, but the way they go about it is completely different. With a layer mask, we paint on it, usually with the Brush Tool, to make different parts of the mask either white, black, or some shade of gray in between.
White makes that part of the layer visible, black hides it, and gray makes that area partially visible depending on how light or dark the shade of gray is. Vector masks, on the other hand, don't require any painting at all. In fact, you can't paint on them because Photoshop won't let you. Instead, we use shapes to control which parts of the layer are visible or hidden. In fact, we're going to use a shape right now to create our rounded corners! With our vector mask now added, go over to the Tools palette and select the Rounded Rectangle Tool.
By default, it's nested in with the normal Rectangle Tool, so click on the Rectangle Tool and hold your mouse down for a second or two. You'll see a fly-out menu appear. Select the Rounded Rectangle Tool from the list:.
Those are selection tools and they're used to drag out selections. The tools we're selecting here are Shape tools and they're used to draw shapes. You'll see a group of three icons over on the left. These three icons determine how our Shape tool will work. We want to draw shapes with our Shape tool sounds fairly obvious, doesn't it? Then, if you move further towards the right, you'll come to the Radius option.
This option determines how rounded our corners will be. The higher the number, the more rounded they'll be. Lower number, less rounded.
Simple stuff. The problem is, you'll never really know for sure what number to enter in for the Radius value until you try one, start drawing the shape, look at how rounded the corners are, and then decide whether you're happy with the result or whether the corner needs to be more or less rounded. I usually start with a value of somewhere between pixels, then drag out my shape and decide if I like the corners.
I've already experimented with this a few times, and I know that a Radius value of about 30 pixels is going to give me the corners I want, so I'm going to enter "30 px" the "px" stands for "pixels" into the Radius option:. We have our Rounded Rectangle Tool selected, we've selected the "Shape layers" option in the Layers palette, and we've entered in a "Radius" value that will determine how rounded our corners will be.
We're ready to drag out our shape. First though, we need to make sure the vector mask is selected, so back in the Layers palette, click on the vector mask thumbnail to select it.
You'll see a white highlight box appear around the thumbnail, which let's us know that the vector mask is selected:. All we have to do now is drag out our shape. Even though it's going to look to us like we're drawing the shape on the image itself, what we're really doing is drawing it on the vector mask, and when we're done, the only part of our photo that will remain visible is the area inside the shape.
Everything outside of the shape will be hidden. Go ahead and drag out your rounded rectangle shape.
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