How to Put a Rounded Border on Images in Photoshop
Photography starts off as simple as snapping a picture of the family dog or a loved one, but what's done with the photograph after it is taken can make the picture memorable, such as a cherished photograph hung on a family wall. Adding a finished, rounded border to an image in Photoshop changes that image from a simple snapshot, to a finished photograph.
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Instructions
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Open a new document in Photoshop. Fill the Background layer with black. Drag the image onto the Photoshop document.
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Highlight "Layer 1" and click on the "Layers Mask" icon on the bottom of the layers palette. The palette appears on the middle right in Photoshop. The layers mask icon looks like a rectangle with a circle in the center.
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Click on the "Layer Masks" icon again. It will appear that there are three boxes in layer 1: the image and two blank squares. The second blank square is called the Vector Mask.
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Click and hold on the rectangle in the toolbar located on the left side of the Photoshop screen. A drop down screen will open. Select Rounded Rectangle tool. Do not select the Marquee rectangle tool near the top of the toolbar.
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Go to the Options Bar at the top of the screen. There will be three icons on the left that determine how the Shapes tool will work. Click on the icon on the left, the "Shape" layer icon.
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Look further right on the same Options toolbar. Select the Radius option. This option determines how rounded our corners will be, the higher the number, the more rounded the corner. Start with a px, or pixel size, of around 30 and alter the number later if the corners need to be more or less rounded.
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Go back to the Layer palette and click on the white box (vector mask) closest to the right. Hold the left click mouse button down and drag out the shape. Everything inside the shape will be shown and everything outside the shape will disappear.
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Add a border to the image by clicking on the Layer Styles icon, which looks like a cursive "f" in the middle of a circle at the bottom of the Layers palette. Select "Stroke" from the drop down menu that appears.
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Set stroke size to approximately 16 pixels, although this can be changed if it is too thick or thin. column. Leave the Position option set to Outside. Select white as the stroke color and click "OK." Apply the stroke by dragging it across the image the same way as the original rounded edge rectangle.
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Tips & Warnings
Photoshop is an amazing tool that can do almost anything imaginable, so take the time to explore the program and try different tools available.
Save the finished image under a different file name than original so the original is saved for future Photoshop work, or any other necessities.
