I know that there has to be an easy way to do this. I want to simply crop a photo to a rectangle with rounded corners.

thanks

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Angie

I usually just crop and add an outside stroke in PSE3. This can either be white or the background color. I'm sure there are other ways to do this same thing.

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Pat
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I answered this in another thread:
Rounded corners in PS CS?

Holler if you have any more questions!

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~Laurie Garza~

Thanks Laurie. I had to copy it so I can jump over to photoshop and follow your steps- looks easy tho. I'll let you know if I can't do it.

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Angie

Thanks, Laurie, works like a charm!

Yep, I've learned my new trick of the day, Thanks Laurie!

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Hooray!!!!!!!!!!!! I finally figured out how to do this- thanks so much!!!

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Kate Teague

the way I do this is to use the rounded rectangle shape tool.
I go to the top bar where it says "radius" then I enter in a number. I usually use 200 px but you can use more or less to get the look you want. a higher number will give you a more rounded edge, lower number a less rounded edge.
then I open a new layer on top of my photo.
I drag out a rectangle to the size I want it.
you will then have a colored rounded rectangle over the top of your photo.
then you ctrl+click on the layer with the rectangle to select it
then you can click on the photo layer and hit ctrl+c to copy it
then go over to your layout window and ctrl+v to paste the cropped photo on to your layout
i use this all the time and it works great and it's really easy

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