Photoshop Tutorial – Making Rounded Corners Text
In this tutorial we’ll create Rounded Corners text effect, with this tutorial you can make rounded corners for any type of shapes:
1. Start by making a new file with the Width=1024 and Height= 768.
2. Select a square font, I used Arial Black with a size of 400 and write your text, I will write AND.
3. Go to Layer->Rasterize->Type.
4. Select the text layer, then Ctrl+Click on the layer thumbnail to select the text contour.
5. To add a layer mask Go to Layer->Layer Mask->Reveal Selection, pres Ctrl+D to deselect.
6. Select the layer mask by clicking on the layer mask thumbnail.
7. Go to Filter->Blur->Gaussian Blur and enter a radius of 10, then pres Ctrl+F two times to repeat the filter.
8. Go to Image->Adjustments->Levels and use the settings from below:
The final result should be like the one bellow:
Horst Otto Mueller
July 25th, 2008 at 6:28 am ;
This is a great tutorial, thanks so much for sharing!
Blobfish
August 30th, 2009 at 6:43 am ;
Faster, easier way to do this:
Ctrl + click on the text, go to Select > Refine Edge, raise the Smooth and Contrast levels to the desired roundness and anti-aliasing, then make a new layer and fill the selection.
This also rounds the inside of the text.
Andrei
August 30th, 2009 at 9:09 pm ;
Great tip BlobFish.
Magdo Santana
November 18th, 2009 at 4:45 pm ;
Very Nice!!
Tanks
CG tutorial
November 24th, 2009 at 2:33 pm ;
that’s great, and really easy to understand… hope you do more of these!That was very helpful! thank you for this tutorial!
Color Experts International
February 23rd, 2010 at 11:31 am ;
Nice tutorial !!!
Thanks.