*Open your picture.
*Right click on the layer that says background. Click on "Layer from Background"
![Screen shot 2010-02-04 at 1.21.08 PM](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4016/4330238077_d90e635f83_o.png)
*Here is where you can rename it if you'd like. Click ok.
![Screen shot 2010-02-04 at 1.21.44 PM](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2688/4330973216_178148dd5a.jpg)
*Now go over to your shapes tool and click on the "rounded rectangle tool".
![Screen shot 2010-02-04 at 1.22.43 PM](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2773/4330973244_7da5b36a51.jpg)
*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.
![Screen shot 2010-02-04 at 1.23.38 PM](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4021/4330238173_ea5939b935.jpg)
*Start at the corner of your picture and drag your mouse across the whole picture.
![Screen shot 2010-02-04 at 1.25.37 PM](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4023/4330973352_04050cda20.jpg)
*This is what it will look like. The color of your rectangle may vary.
![Screen shot 2010-02-04 at 1.26.04 PM](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4021/4330973388_b96f679ec8.jpg)
*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.
![Screen shot 2010-02-04 at 1.28.58 PM](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2723/4330238303_a0b68fc9bf_o.png)
*Currently our layers look like this and are in this order.
![Screen shot 2010-02-04 at 1.30.22 PM](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2691/4330238327_ca1d516d3a_o.png)
*Drag the shape layer down so it will be behind our picture layer. See how the order swapped?
![Screen shot 2010-02-04 at 1.30.27 PM](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4060/4330238371_baea2a1f96.jpg)
*Now click on the layer tab at the top. Scroll down and click on "create clipping mask".
![Screen shot 2010-02-04 at 1.39.05 PM](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2761/4330973492_88534c01e1_o.png)
*See our picture now has rounded corners! ......almost finished.
![Screen shot 2010-02-04 at 1.39.22 PM](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4024/4330238451_7015bb0141.jpg)
*Go back to the layer tab and click on "merge visible" That will merge all of our layers into one!
![Screen shot 2010-02-04 at 1.39.41 PM](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4013/4330973578_d3b12a947a_o.png)
*Now save your picture. When saving pictures for my blog I always save in .png.
![Screen shot 2010-02-04 at 1.40.30 PM](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2703/4330238515_0a9f81b00a.jpg)
There you have it!
o now I really want Photoshop! :-) Thanks
ReplyDeletemay i ask why png??
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing! I will have to get Photoshop Elements now! :)
ReplyDeleteYay! Thank you! The create clipping mask part was the part I either missed/ or wasn't in the other tutorials I found.
ReplyDeleteGreat tutorial! I have been rounding my corners when I write in Live Writer but at a BlissDom workshop today they said that Live Writer isn't good to use. Bummer b/c it's a lot easier that way! I'll have to follow this for Photoshop. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Monica!
ReplyDeleteI am curious about the .png thing too!
I don't have the Clip option... I am using Elements 6.0... thinking I need to upgrade :-(
ReplyDeleteIs there another way to clip? I'm using photoshop 7 and didn't have that function under the Layer tabs. Thanks for the tutorial though!
ReplyDeleteHey Monica...I'm having some trouble with this...I go through all of the steps, but when I get to the "create clipping layer" part, it won't let me click it...Any ideas??
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