Free! New & Improved Rounded Corner Action for Photoshop CS, CS2, CS3, and CS3 Extended
filed in Free Photoshop Actions on Nov.18, 2008
Okay! Today I am going to share with you my Action Set of three actions for rounding corners on photos. This set includes an Action for Landscape, Portrait, and Square orientations, and includes easy to follow prompts. Expanding the process into three Actions means there will be no need to rotate the matte to match the orientation of your photo. Again, these are designed to work equally well on 72ppi and 300 ppi resolution photos and papers, because that is what I use. I have found that you will always get a nicer result, however, if you have sized the photo close to the final resolution and size that you want prior to running the Action. That way the corners will be cleaner and smoother than they would be if you ran the Action first, then resized. Later today or tomorrow I’ll be uploading a video showing how to use the Actions for those who like a little visual demonstration.
If you are new to loading and using Actions in Photoshop, CLICK HERE for instructions on getting the Action loaded into your program.
To download the FREE Rounded Corners Action, CLICK HERE.
November 29th, 2008 on 11:59 pm
just wanted to say THANK YOU for the awesome rounded corners action. It’s exactly what I’ve been looking for..and for free! thank you so much.
December 5th, 2008 on 6:49 pm
Hi, Nicole! You are so welcome! I’m glad you like the actions! And I appreciate your taking the time to leave a comment!! – DeeDoo
December 28th, 2008 on 1:54 pm
yay! great action…thanks for sharing!
January 5th, 2009 on 8:25 pm
Thank you!
January 29th, 2009 on 11:59 am
I found your blog through a web search and then saw this free action! I can’t wait to try it out. Thanks so much.
January 29th, 2009 on 12:27 pm
Great, Amber! Hope it works well for you! Thanks for the ‘thank you’!!!
January 29th, 2009 on 12:28 pm
You are welcome!
February 9th, 2009 on 1:31 pm
Thank you for sharing this great action!
February 9th, 2009 on 2:15 pm
You’re welcome! I also will be posting another tutorial for PSE7 on rounded corners once I can get all my computer and storage issues sorted out!
February 18th, 2009 on 3:19 am
You are the bomb! I have been up HOURS trying to figure out how to do it in cs3 and not in Illustrator because I don’t have it on this computer…. None of the tutorials on youtube were good but yours! thank you so much!
March 14th, 2009 on 7:04 am
Hi Janet,
Thank-you so much for posting these actions! And for free! You are so generous! I just have one question. After I press control+t and then shift to resize and resize my project, all the steps after the rasterize layer disappear and the action will not complete from that point on. Any ideas?
March 14th, 2009 on 8:26 am
thank youuuuu rocked
March 14th, 2009 on 10:37 am
Penny, which action are you using? I don’t know what would cause the steps to disappear….are you using Photoshop CS or which?
May 4th, 2009 on 6:43 am
Just another thank you for your action – never managed to do this and your action is exactly what I wanted to achieve, very many thanks for your generosity.
July 19th, 2009 on 6:27 pm
Thank you! Boy does this action speed up the process. Great job.
July 26th, 2009 on 10:01 am
Thank you very very much! This is very helpful!
Once I resized it the way I wanted it to be…I played/pressed the action button again to continue.
PS I was having the same problem as Penny—once i hit ctrl t——nothing would happen. So what i did was at that point i went to the top tool bar, went to “edit”, “transform path”, “scale”. And I was able to resize the mask.
Hope this helps others who are having the same problem!
Chao!
Nicole
September 21st, 2009 on 6:41 pm
Hi. My name is Virginia and i’m doing my own senior pictures to save money. I really want the rounded corners on my pictures but do i need to have photoshop in order to do this… thank you very much for this amazing blog… can’t wait for the video!!!
Virginia
October 2nd, 2009 on 9:33 pm
Thank you so much for such a wonderful action. It is absolutely beautiful I love it!! I have a mac and it is command T and it worked great!!
October 15th, 2009 on 9:22 am
Hi, Virginia! Thank you for visiting my blog! The tutorial and actions are for Photoshop, so yes, you do need to have that program for them to work! We do have a template for rounded corners in our Templates/Actions section of the store, that you can use with any program that uses PNG files and layers/transparency. You can open the template and use it to clip your photos, giving them rounded corners. Hope this helps! DeeDoo
November 3rd, 2009 on 12:13 pm
Thank you for sharing this awesome action! I have been tinkering around for hours trying to figure out how to create rounded edges in CS4 – finally, success – thanks to you!
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November 9th, 2009 on 5:05 pm
Yea! Glad you found the action helpful! -J
August 12th, 2010 on 4:33 am
hi my name is mukesh kumar this action is avery nice
September 1st, 2010 on 2:04 pm
Thanks so much for this action! I love it! The only problem is, could you tell me how I keep the background transparent, instead of the white background? Thanks
September 1st, 2010 on 3:33 pm
Soot! I should mention that I am saving it as a png file and still coming up with white around the corners….I have tried everything possible to correct this. I really appreciate your time
September 3rd, 2010 on 9:42 am
Alyson, I emailed you privately to work on this, but wanted to add some info here for others who may have a similar issue. Always be sure that you are NOT flattening the file when saving (this was not Alyson’s problem, btw). Even if your finished rounded corner photo appears on a clear background, it will not be on a clear background unless saved either as a psd (not flattened) or as a png file. In order to get it to appear on my website with rounded corners, I take an additional step and place a white background behind the rounded corner photo, since my website background is white. I then trim the entire file leaving a border of white outside the rounded corners, but just a very slim border. I then flatten the file and save for web. When I upload the photo to my website, it shows the rounded corners while the slim white border simply blends in with the website background. If your website background is black, you would back the photo with a slim black border, etc. I hope this helps anyone having similar difficulties! Janet
September 3rd, 2010 on 9:44 am
Thank you! I’m glad you are enjoying it.
November 12th, 2010 on 8:01 am
Hey! Thank you so much for posting this, I am so excited to use this action again and again. Everything is perfect until at the end I am left with the white background, I don’t know how to go about removing that? Thanks again!
November 13th, 2010 on 9:15 pm
I did a video tutorial for this action and it is posted on youtube. You can watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jz1-lZZeoM
Follow it exactly and the action should turn out correctly.
Janet
November 14th, 2010 on 8:35 am
this is so awesome!!! thank you so much for sharing!
November 14th, 2010 on 9:27 am
you are welcome
. I appreciate your thank-you!
December 5th, 2010 on 10:39 pm
Great action. Thanks!!
February 5th, 2011 on 5:40 am
Thanks, great action!