How to create rounded corners: photography tutorial

Ok, everyone's askin' so I'm here to share, how to round the corners of your pictures. I used  Photoshop Elements in this tutorial but you can do the same thing in CS4 too.

*Open your picture.

*Right click on the layer that says background. Click on "Layer from Background"



*Here is where you can rename it if you'd like. Click ok.



*Now go over to your shapes tool and click on the "rounded rectangle tool".



*In the radius box you can adjust how round you want your roundness to be. I usually go anywhere between 100 pixels and 150. But you can play with it and get it how you like it.



*Start at the corner of your picture and drag your mouse across the whole picture.



*This is what it will look like. The color of your rectangle may vary.


*See how the rectangle isn't covering the whole picture. This is just a matter of preference. We can leave it like that but I am going to adjust mine to fit the whole picture. I will click on the move tool. Which will select the whole rectangle and then I can drag it down to the edges.

*Currently our layers look like this and are in this order.


*Drag the shape layer down so it will be behind our picture layer. See how the order swapped?



*Now click on the layer tab at the top. Scroll down and click on "create clipping mask".


*See our picture now has rounded corners! ......almost finished.



*Go back to the layer tab and click on "merge visible" That will merge all of our layers into one!


*Now save your picture. When saving pictures for my blog I always save in .png.



There you have it!