Perfect rounded edges in Adobe Photoshop (cont.)

Now that you have your selection, zoom out a bit. Keep your selection. Now using the rectangular marquee tool, we want to hold down the shift key and select the areas of the rectangle that we want to KEEP. This will ADD to the selection you already have. Try to intersect your elliptical selection as shown here:

Notice how I drew the rectangle? I split the circle down the middle..selecting the areas of the rectangle that I wanted to keep. Now we will add to that again, but splitting the circle the other way. So hold down the shift key, and using the rectangular marquee tool draw another rectangle ( again, adding to what we already have ). You should have something that looks like this now:

Notice how we have selected the areas we are going to keep, and the area of the rectangle that we want eliminated is not selected.

Now comes the easy part. Go to the menu up top, and click on select, then inverse. ( SHIFT+CTRL+I ) Now hit the delete key on your keyboard and deselect. ( CTRL+D ). You should have something that looks like this:

This may seem difficult at first, but once you get used to it and practice, it is probably one of the best ways I've seen to make rounded corners. Do the method above to the other 3 corners, and you will have something like this when you are finished:

Dress it up a little, and you can have a cool looking image!

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