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Adobe Photoshop Assignment - Odds and Ends

18. Smooth

In this exercise, you will produce an image with rounded corners.
There are various ways to do this. This exercise demonstrates Select, Modify and Smooth commands.

1. In imagename.psd, highlight just less than your entire image using the Marquee Tool. (For some reason, I cannot get "smoothing" to work with the entire image highlighted, so highlight an area just a few pixels smaller than the image)
2. Hit Select Modify Smooth Atl+S+M+S, then enter a radius in pixels (higher number gives more rounded corners), Hit Okay.
3. Each corner of your selection should now be rounded. If you would like more or less rounding, Hit Edit Undo and redo the smoothing operation, changing the radius.
4. While your rounded-corners selection is still highlighted, copy it (Ctrl+C). If rounded selection was bot "selected" (no longer outlined by the vibrating dotted line), re-do the smoothing operation.
5. Hit Ctrl+C to copy the image .
6. Click to assignment_photoshop.psd; have original image at top, as explained in curves assignment.
7. Hit Ctrl+V to paste the image into assignment_photoshop.psd
8. As for the prior four exercises, align the original image at the top of assignment_photoshop.psd, and copy the altered image to the bottom.
9. File Save for Web (Alt+Shft+Ctrl+S) as assignment_photoshop_smooth.jpg.
10. FTP assignment_photoshop_smooth.jpg to the photoshop_assignment subfolder in your images folder on your Web server (example of finished color assignment file).
11. Proceed to feather.

For more info:
In Photoshop, hit F1 (for Help), click Index, click S, scroll down to "smoothing", About [1]. Photoshop's Help describes a rounded rectangle tool , a different flavor of the rectangle marquee tool , but I have never been able to find it (let me know if you do!).

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