HOWTO: curved edges

Curved Edges
Just thought I'd post this here as I get asked it quite a bit. There's a million ways to do them, this is the one I'm most comfortable with.

• create a marguee around the item you want curved
• click the Channels palette
• make a new channel (CTRL + N)
• make sure your foreground/background colours are black/white (press D, then X)
• clear the area inside the selection (DEL)
• remove the marquee (CTRL + D)
• now to create the curve - Filters -> Gaussian Blur
• The amount of blur equals the radius of the curve
• Now - this bit is a little tricky - bring up the Levels dialog box (CTRL + L)
• Adjust the Levels so that the outter two arrows are right next to the centre arrow - the closeness also defines the amount of anti-aliasing on the curve - then click OK
• click back to your Layers palette, and click on the layer you want the curve on
• press CTRL + ALT + 4 to bring up the marquee (4 being the number of the alpha channel)

That's it - it might look and sound complicated at first, but after you've done it a few times, it becomes second nature

HTH
stumpy!!

thank the lord someone has published that mini-tutorial!! thanks Stumpy! I remember trying to create those "oh so sweet" curves..... never worked though! Good work!!

Yes I agree with fakker,
Thank you very much for explaining this, In this way.

This will save me some time.