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