Saturday Special 2/13 – Rounded Corners
Happy early Valentines Day everyone!! I hope you all are doing something romantic this weekend! For this week’s Saturday Special I am going to talk about rounded corners. Have you noticed that they have been popping up everywhere lately? I LOVE the way they look but I have to admit I often used pieces of templates to get the look because I could never get them to look right in my program (I use PSE 6). Well, now I know and I wanted to share it with you!
There are a few ways to do this – use the rectangular marquee tool or use the shape tool. Today I am going to talk about using the shape tool. I like it because the results aren’t permanent and I can change the shape around as I scrap if I want. (I am a little indecisive! LOL!)
So first open up the paper or photo you want to crop into a rounded corner shape. Then..
For the radius setting, feel free to play around with it and see what creates the look you want. I have it set to 100 here but I ended up wanting my corners more rounded so I settled on 150.
Now you are ready to draw your shape. Create a new layer by using the menu or holding down Shift-Ctrl-N. If you want the shape to be square you can hold down the shift key when you draw and it will make it stay symmetrical.
Next, select and drag your paper layer on top of the shape and reduce the opacity so you can see the shape under the paper. You can select the shape layer and move it around or even resize it if you want to. Now we want to group the layers together and “cut” the paper. You can use the menu (layer-group with previous) or press Ctrl – G.
Voila! Now you have your pretty rounded rectangle or square! You can merge the layers together to make it permanent or if you are like me you can continue with your LO and link them but leave it unmerged so if you decide you want to change the shape again you can!
Here is my LO using lots of rounded corners:
Credits: Yummy Scrummy Love Bundle and Date Go Rounds by Stolen Moments Designs
And here is some awesome inspiration from the CT..
Wendy used “Day By Day – V.3 Templates” by WM[squared] Designs and “Innovation” by Sahlin Studios to create this awesome page!
Amber created this cutie using Underwater Escape by Erica Zane, Vellum Alpha by Sahlin Studio and P365=Everyday Life Template Set 2 by Happy Scrap Girl.
And here’s another cutie from Lori using Connie Prince’s Beary Sweet Boy Kit.
Liz created this LO with Juno’s Dessert, Britt’s White Christmas and In Stitches: Basics, Plum Dumpling’s Alpha-bits, and Jenn Barrette’s Basic Brown Alpha. Check out that fun title!!
Finally, Jenn created this pink beauty with Erica Zane’s Zaney Amy.
I think the Creative Team likes rounded corners as much as I do!!
You have until Feb 28th to complete an LO, upload it in the Saturday Special Gallery and link it back to the forum thread. You’ll receive an extra point for using a new release in your LO (please remember to put that you used a new release in your post.) I’ll also choose a LO at the end of the month that will receive one more point!
I can’t wait to see all your creative uses of rounded corners!
-Amanda (panders77)
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