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.

Photoshop Tutorial - Making Rounded Corners Text

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.

Photoshop Tutorial - Making Rounded Corners Text

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:

Photoshop Tutorial - Making Rounded Corners Text

The final result should be like the one bellow:

Photoshop Tutorial - Making Rounded Corners Text

About Andrei

I am a Web Designer from Romania, specialized with jQuery, Wordpress, Photoshop etc.
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7 Responses to Photoshop Tutorial – Making Rounded Corners Text

  1. Horst Otto Mueller says:

    This is a great tutorial, thanks so much for sharing!

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  3. Blobfish says:

    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.

  4. Andrei says:

    Great tip BlobFish.

  5. Magdo Santana says:

    Very Nice!!
    Tanks

  6. CG tutorial says:

    that’s great, and really easy to understand… hope you do more of these!That was very helpful! thank you for this tutorial!

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