Supplies are from Life 365 at Weeds and Wildflowers
On Wednesday this week I(Steph) took my crop-a-dile to a friend so she could use it for some cards she was making. While I was there, I saw some cute little squares and rectangles with rounded corners. I had told her last week how much I like rounded corners because they make things look so GREAT with such little effort. I was reminded how difficult it was for me to figure out how to round corners digitally when I first started. It’s almost laughable how long it took me to figure it out…haha!
I was able to find some GREAT tutorials to share with you on how to round corners but to my surprise, none of them showed the way I do it. Most of the tutorials showed one or more different ways to round corners, so I learned A LOT of different ways to accomplish this technique.
First, I thought I wanted to share how I do it…
1) I select my rounded rectangle tool (under the rectangle tool in PS and PSE) and I use these settings:
2) Create a new layer
3) Click and drag to draw the rectangle or square (to get a perfect square, hold the shift key while dragging).
4) Now, I just use the shape layer like it is a template or clipping mask. I put the paper or photo layer ABOVE the shape layer and then in PS, CTRL+ALT+G and in PSE CTRL+G.
As always, even if these tutorials are not written specifically for your program, the version of your program, or even scrapbooking, the principles will apply across platforms.
Rounded Corners in PSE by Misty Cato
Rounded Corners in PSE by Pain in the Tech (isn’t that a fun name?)
Rounded Corners in PS by Website Magazine
Four Different Methods to Create Rounded Corners by Tutorio
Have fun going round! 
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I’m still a LONG ways from being familiar with PS and even further from being an amazing scrapper. For the life of me, since I made the switch from PSP7… I couldn’t figure out how to do rounded corners in PS and really hadn’t missed them until recently. Guess what will be making a major comeback in my scrapping??
LOL
Thanks again!
Thanks for the links. I agree with Trude. The one by Jessica Sprague is my favorite. She also provides free rounded corner brushes as well.
How funny – your way is how I do it to. I like the option of moving the paper around to find the pattern piece I like.
There are a couple of things that I miss the simplicity of in paper scrapping. Mostly rounded corners, tearing paper, and not having to worry about whether the very edge will print or not. (Also not having to worry about scale – is it a 12×12 page? or smaller? how big will the photo really look?) But mostly I’m digi all the way – easy typewritten text, fix and size my photos as I go! And easy storage and organization.
This is why I love you guys! Great share!
I’ve always loved this tutorial by Jessica Sprague:
http://spraguelab.squarespace.com/blog/2006/10/19/photoshop-friday-16-rounded-corners.html
Thanks for the links!
It took me forever to figure that out too! Your instructions are how I do it. I love that you can set the size of the roundness. It took me forever to find the drop shadows the first time. It feels so long ago now….
That’s funny because I couldn’t find any tutorials that worked for me. Your way is how I’ve been doing it too =>