Rounded corners

[richrc1131]

Photoshop Version:
CS2

OS:
Windows 7

Project:
I'm trying to give a photo rounded corners by starting with the Rounded Rectangle Tool.

Steps:
I opened the photo.
Unlocked it
Duplicated the layer
Selected the rounded rectangle tool
Chose black as the foreground color
Selected an area of the photo

Problem:
The selected area did not convert to foreground color. It didn't appear to do anything at all.

Question: I'm obviously missing a step or a setting. Does anyone have an idea what I missed?

 

[Stric9]

You would have to fill the selected area with the foreground color. You can do this simply by hiting alt+backspace on your keyboard, or you can go to up to edit and fill. But you really can't make a selection with the rounded rectangle tool without using it in path mode then right clicking and making a selection.
There a several ways to accomplish this. I'll give you a few. 1)You can go to filters-distort-lens correction and use the vignette slider or 2) if you want to use the rounded rectange tool, then you can make the shape, drag your image layer above the shape layer, then hold down alt and click on the line between the image and shape layer to make a clipping mask or 3) Make a new layer above your image layer. Using the rounded rectangle tool in path mode drag out the shape you want, right click and choose make selection, press crtl+shift+i to invert your selection, then fill with the color you choose by going to edit-fill. 4) Using the marquee tool make a selection smaller than what you wish to have, then go to Select-Modify-Expand. The amount you want to expand depends on your image size. When you expand very far, you will get rounded edges. 5) Instead of using expand...if you have cs3 or above you can use Refine Edge. The amount you use also depends on image size. You have various sliders in Refine Edge and a live preview to see the effect.

Hope this helps,

Stric9

It really depends on the effect you are trying to acheive.

 

[Steve]

On the tool bar on the top of the image your tool is set to paths.
Change it to fill pixels.