Re: [Photoshop] Non-angular corners

Brian,

Don't feel bad - Creating a box with rounded corners is tricky in PS - In
fact I don't even have that totally mastered.  I'll give you a clue on how
to start it and perhaps another will have some advise on how to make it a
perfect box.

With the rectangular selection marquee selected, go to the Marquee Options
pallete and set the feather to about 20-30 pixels, depending on how curved
you want your box.   Now make your box.  The selection will have the curved
corners.  Right click on the selection and make a working path.  Go to the
Paths pallete and make a selection setting the feather to 0.  Now go back to
the layers and stroke the selection.  That's it - You'll probably have to
play around with it to get the box looking good.

Now another tip:  What I tend to use instead of PS to make the box is the
old MSPaint from Win3.1 - It makes a great rounded box with no hassels and
it's anti-aliasing is much better than what I can do with PS.  The new
MSPaint under Win95 lost that functionality, so for a long time I had a copy
of the old MSPaint on my system just for making those boxes.

Shay  B-)

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>
>
>Hello oldies, newbies, in between and the like-
>
>Have a question for some of the more experienced folks out there.
>I'm kinda embarrassed that I've made it this far without figuring out how
>to do this:
>
>How do I make a square box, with a thickness of about 4 or 5 pixels, but
>keep the edges rounded, curved?
>
>I have tried making a rectangular selection, then holding shift and adding
>circular selections to the edges, but this is way too inconsistent, as it
>never works like I want it too. I am just about to get stewed over this
one.
>
>I have worked with this problem for months, hesitant to ask for help; call
>it pride, whatever-- I just like to try to get it on my own, but heck, I'm
>at a loss. Am I missing a simple key-press?
>
>HELP! :)
>
>Here, this is an example:
>
>http://www.himmeloghav.no/tjenester.html
>
>Notice the retangular box with smooth, rounded, symmetrical corners on the
>second layer of the image. It's so perfect, I think it's laughing at me
now.
>
>Thanksabunchfolks,
>
>Brian
>
>
>brian j. | fusion web design
>freelance graphic designer/web developer
>fusion(at)greenwood.net
><http://www.ais-gwd.com/~fusion>
>[i.c.q. 1057986]
>

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