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How do you create round corners of a rectangle picture in photoshop?

Question by Jeremy: How do you create round corners of a rectangle picture in photoshop?
For reasons beyond my understanding, inverse and crop options no longer work on my version of Photoshop.

Answer by fjpoblam
Try this:
Use the eliptical marquee tool to mark off the corners (select an oval around the part of the pic that does NOT contain the corners to be rounded). Then click Select and Invert. Then select two colors for the graded shadow, like from white to black or white to gray. Then select the gradient tool. In each corner draw a gradient line from the image to the corner.

Now, someone here, will likely tell you something even better! or even tell you this same thing, with using the white as an “alpha channel”, so watch for that! It’ll be the one for yer points.

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4 Responses to “How do you create round corners of a rectangle picture in photoshop?”

  1. I don’t think this one looks like the easiest way, but perhaps you’d like a visual tutorial to follow along:

    http://matthom.com/archive/2004/09/10/fast-rounded-corners-in-photoshop

  2. Create a new Layer, set the color to white, and use the Rounded Rectangle Tool (U) to create to rectangle with rounded corners. Start from the top-left corner and go down to the bottom-right corner. If the shape doesn’t look good to you, adjust the size of the corners in the Radius option that should be visible when you are in the Rounded Rectangle Tool mode.

    Once you have a rounded rectangle that looks good to you, use the Select Color Range option to select the rounded rectangle. Switch to the image you want to have rounded corners and select “Inverse”, or press CTRL+SHIFT+i. Press delete to remove the corners. You can fill in the empty space with whatever you want by adding a layer beneath it.

  3. Watch this video.

  4. What I did was, I erased the border of the picture, and then erased a pixel out of each corner. But mine was tiny, about 50×70 or so, if you have a bigger picture, I would suggest erasing more than 1 pixel. 4, or maybe 9, in a square form.

    Now, if you make it to it’s regular size, it will seem as if the corner is rounded.

    Ok, I just Adobe Photoshop CS3, not 4, but that’s what I did in my version. I turned out pretty well, actually!

    Check it out:
    http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm260/_Bloom_/Register.gif

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