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wrawrawrawrawra
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August 18, 2010
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Rounded Corners on a Pre-existing Shape

  • August 18, 2010
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I'm trying to take a shape with sharp corners and give them round edges, preferably to a consistent degree. Similar to what the tutorial at http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/interfaces/round-edges/ is trying to do, only that tutorial doesn't seem to work anymore. I can't realistically recreate the object from scratch using rounded corners but it would look much nicer if the picture did have them. I am using Photoshop x64 CS5 on a Windows 7 computer. Thanks in advance for the help.    

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    seomixi
    Participant
    August 21, 2010

    You can use grid & pentool to create nice rounded rectangle , remember to on snap  to grid .

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    swashguy
    Inspiring
    August 18, 2010

    What does your shape look like and is it a vector shape?

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    wrawrawrawrawraAuthor
    Participant
    August 18, 2010

    It's not a vector shape and looks like a group of letters (with sharp corners). I'll try to pen tool it later tonight but was hoping for an easy shortcut to just "add" smooth/round corners.

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    Anonymous
    August 18, 2010

    wrawrawrawrawra wrote:

    I'm trying to take a shape with sharp corners and give them round edges, preferably to a consistent degree. Similar to what the tutorial at http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/interfaces/round-edge s/ is trying to do, only that tutorial doesn't seem to work anymore.

    What do you mean by "doesn't seem to work anymore"?

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    wrawrawrawrawraAuthor
    Participant
    August 18, 2010

    Well I tried the steps in the tutorial and it didn't take the blurred shapes back to a sharp view.

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    swashguy
    Inspiring
    August 18, 2010

    I would just use the Pen tool and manually make the rounded edges.  Otherwise, start over with the Rounded Rectangle Tool (unless your shape is not rectangular).  Why can't you recreate your existing shape?

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