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[11design]

Hi,
I am doing a catalog and I need to take many samples into it. My original pictures are perfect square and what I want for the catalog is round those squares. What is the best way to make them rounded without resizing? I cannot find this option in Photoshop....

 

[mscallisto]

Do you mean like selecting the complete pic with the "rectangular marquee tool" and adding some "feather" to round the edges?

 

[11design]

No. I don't want feather. I want the whole picture but rounded at the edges with no feather. It's like having my picture framed in a rounded square shape. I don't have to crop any of the pics just have this round corner in all of them.

 

[jmgalvin]

Since you're doing a catalog, you're probably using a page layout program. You can round the corners of the image frame in the page layout program.

This would be a lot quicker than playing in PS, since you can easily duplicate the image frame with the rouded corners.

You're going to have a certain amount of crop - at the corners. Otherwise the image will be a little distorted

Using OSX 10.3.8 on a G4

 

[11design]

I am using InDesign CS. Maybe I don't know any good option in InDesign to use for it. I tried everything I thought possible in the options but nothing. Do you how can I do it in InDesign?

 

[jmgalvin]

Select the rectangular frame tool and draw your box. Leave it selected and go to Object menu/Corner effects. Select Rounded from drop down menu. Select the radius of curve that you want. Change that radius as desired.

Place your pic in the box and choose whatever fitting you want from object menu. Once you're happy - if you're gonna repeat this throughout catalog - you might want to go to Library/new/library and put the box in the library for quick use in subsequent stuff.

Using OSX 10.3.8 on a G4

 

[11design]

Wow! I can't believe. Thank you very much. I did everything you told except that I was working with both pic and frame together, since I've thought I had to have both to work in InDesign. You have no idea how much time you saved me!!!
Thanks.