There are plenty of reasons you may want rounded corners of an image rather than leaving them at sharp 90-degree angles. People love circles, a square or a rectangle with rounded corners because they definitely look more appealing to us than sharp right angles. We see them almost on all kinds of websites these days, from personal blogs to business websites, NGO websites, educational websites, news press, social media websites, etc..
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The immediate human response to sharp edges is danger. Rounded corners evoke warmth and trust. This is exactly why many call-to-action buttons, like those signing up, adding to chart, checking out buttons, are designed this way. By evoking a sense of warmth and trust, users will be more inclined to do business with a brand and convert.
If you are a graphic designer or website master who have Photoshop installed on your computer, you can make photo corners rounded in several ways. In this guide, we’ll go over two quick and easy ways to round out those corners in Photoshop on Windows computer.
Method 1. Create rounded corners using rectangle marquee tool
Open the photo or image in Photoshop. Turn the background into a layer from the Layers panel in the bottom right section.
Select the Rectangle Marquee Tool which can be found at the top of the left toolbar.
Draw a rectangle on the image. From the top menu, select Select->Modify->Smooth. Enter the desired corner radius.
Select Inverse and delete it from the image. Select the Crop tool from the left toolbar to crop unnecessary parts of the picture if needed.
Go to save the image as PNG file from the File menu so you can preserve the transparency of the rounded corners.
Method 2. Make rounded corners using rectangle tool
Open the photo or image in Photoshop. Turn the background into a layer from the Layers panel in the bottom right section.
Select the Rectangle Tool from the toolbar on the left side. Draw a rectangle on the background image. Select the desired roundness by adjusting the radius value in the Properties panel on the right side.
Move the background layer above the rectangle layer from the Layers panel in the bottom right section.
Right click on the background layer and select Create Clipping Mask to make all the image corners rounded.
Go to export the image as a new PNG file from the File menu.
