Marquee - rounded edges to selection 1

[DoctorGonzo]

Hi guys,

Can anyone tell me how to get the Rectangular marguee tool to have rounded corners.

I have a square image and I want the corners to be rounded.
(like when you feather it, but without the fading)

Does this make sense?

Many thanks!

Gonzo

 

[Manic]

If you use the round edge rectangle tool you can create a selection from that.

Just draw out your shape, change to the path selection tool, right click and select 'Make Selection'.

Hope this helps.

Manic
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[DoctorGonzo]

Brilliant.

Thanks Manic... you've no idea how long I've been trying to do that.

Gonzo

 

[Eggles]

I tried figuring out how to do this recently and didn't come up with the much easier solution that Manic suggested (I wish I had known!!) but instead, I used the Pen tool to draw a octagonal-shaped path, and then pulled out the nodes to make curves on the corners, then did Path->selection. There's always more than one way of doing things in PS isn't there?

 

[mscallisto]

What version of PS?

 

[darrync]

cant you just draw a rectangular marquee and go to select>modify>smooth then just cut and paste a nice rounded corner image?

 

[Eggles]

mscallisto - if you are asking ME what version of PS I am using, it's V7. My method actually worked quite well (and I am SO pleased to have thought of it all by myself). I set up four guides (two vertical, two horizontal) each exactly the same disatance in from the edges of the image, and I used these for node placement, so I'd get a very regular shape. When I pulled out the node handles, it was done so that they stayed parallel to the image edges, so I also managed to get matching curves. I tried the rounded rectangular shape, but couldn't figure out how to convert a shape to a selection/path.

Next time, I will attempt Manic's suggestion.

 

[darrync]

you could hold ctrl+click on the layer to make a selection/path

 

[mscallisto]

Actually I just wanted to know what ver DocGonzo uses but it doesn't really matter.

Manic gives a nice method but I am confused a bit.

If you use the rectangle marquee tool and feather you do see a rectangular selection but (image > crop) no longer acts like (image > crop) before the feather.

When you use Manic's method, (image > crop) acts like the normal rectangular selection (image > crop) except the corners remain square.

How does one get the crop to include the rounded corners?

 

[darrync]

you cannot -- best method is to copy selection and open new file then paste and save

 

[DoctorGonzo]

Hi all,

Sorry for late reply. I am using Photoshop CS.

I've found a few ways of doing this, but Manic's is by far the easiest. (for me)

Gonzo

 

[Manic]

Glad I could be of help to you all

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