I always make them manually, and though I, too, am tempted to bail out to a
vector program, Usually, I'll do them in Photoshop.

The key elements are an image the size of the finished rectangle you want,
the creation of a black "doughnut" on a white background with the desired
diameter (i.e., marquee select a circle with desired diameter--always
divisible by two--and fill with black; marquee select another circle with
diameter smaller than first by twice the desired thickness of the line,
and, using the Ctrl+Alt [Command+Option on the Mac?] and the arrow keys,
move the selection outline to the exact center of the black circle, and
fill with white). Cut the doughnut into quarters and move each of the
quarters out to the corners of the image. Then connect the arcs at the
corners with black rectangles, select all, invert the colors and cut to the
clipboard for pasting into your other image as an alpha channel.


At 03:18 PM 2/22/98 -0500, Brian wrote:
>
>
>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]
> 
Barn
(Byron Canfield)
http://www.byronc.com
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