Create ROUNDED Corners in Photoshop (2023 version)

Learn how to add a rounded corner to a photograph in Adobe Photoshop 2023. This tutorial shows how to create a rectangle tool, add rounded corners, and "clip" your photo to the rectangle. Watch the video to the end to learn how to resize and save your finished image as a transparent file.
📖 CHAPTERS:
00:00 Introduction
00:16 Create a rectangle
01:10 Create the rounded corners
01:27 Clip the photo to the rectangle
02:02 Customize the rounded corners
03:16 Add a border to the photo
03:50 Crop out the transparent edges
04:10 Resize the image to make it smaller
04:38 Save the image as a transparent file
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[@rockcat6208]

This is the BEST tutorial I have ever seen! NOTHING else even comes close. So many instructors go too fast, or they click buttons without telling you what they're doing (because they're so familiar with what they're doing, but they forget that we're not). This was clear and designed so you could easily follow along. Thank you, Nicole. Superb!

[@nicolesy]

Thank you so much! 😊

[@lorenfoxx9963]

Possibly one of the most helpful KZbin videos I have ever seen. Made this task SO EASY. Thank you!

[@EveronesInvited]

Best photoshop video ever, straight to the point and didnt tell a backstory on how you got into graphic design. I subscribed without looking at another video, this one sold me!

[@peterlyonshall]

Brilliant! Thanks, Nicole for providing exactly what I needed in a clear and concise manner. Well done!

[@djm-photography]

Love this thank you, i needed to round an image for a a box for my wedding photos and this was perfect :) subscribed

[@gneissly]

This was very useful and easy to replicate. Thank you!

[@OCDTraci]

Clear, to the point, saved my life. Thank you!!!!!

[@minimini4792]

This was helpful, thanks so much! That was easier than I thought.

[@mullholand]

Thank you so much!!! This was exactly what I needed - actually - more than I needed - I am able to do more than I had thought!

[@BenSturtevant]

Super helpful. Thank you for explaining it so clearly. You got yourself a subscriber!

[@gemtimegames6040]

Thank you so much. This was easily the most informative video I have found on this topic.

[@kevinfranklin6382]

Awesome Nicole. Thank you so much.

[@rodsaunders149]

Excellent tutorial! Totally agree with Loren Foxx's comment, below. Thank you very much.

[@dezzadoesusa]

Thanks Nicole - so simple with your instructions.

[@LynnPatterson-sp1le]

Well done. This is exactly what I was looking for. 👍

[@Jessica-wt2sm]

Great tutorial with easy and concise instructions. Thanks so much!

[@VirtualWil]

Amazing!! Best tutorial on doing this on youtube

[@GMthunderbreak]

The thing about photoshop is there's so many ways to get what you want done. I knew about clipping mask but I've never associated that function with this task. Thank you for sharing.

[@MinecraftMaker]

Thank you! I didn't know you could do this!

[@MIZZ.BLKNRD]

Thank you! This was super easy to follow and helpful.

[@i_n_c_r_y_p_t_o]

This worked great, thank you. :)

[@1okdude]

great video! thanks for the help

[@mast3r860]

You are an amazing teacher. Thank you!

[@yanlingqin7530]

so well explained! I love the fact you zoom in to show each icon and steps, lots of other video just said do this and do that without show it clearly, always have to stop and rewind back to see exactly what they are doing, but your video zoomed in with enlarged icon, so easy to follow! big thank you!

[@nicolesy]

Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@BeneficialStorm]

thank you. Extremely well done.

[@tsuna9472]

nice vid straight to the point and all the info you need. Keep up the good work

[@ahrhua2]

thanks this works really well!

[@umairGAPHIC920]

thanks a lot mam love you from the depth of my heart🥰🥰

[@insanebmxthomas]

This video really helped me out! Tysm Nicole! 👊

[@Tato_Vazquez]

Thank you, very helpful

[@annabelle8655]

Thank you, that was super helpful!

[@bengrossman3280]

THANK YOU SO MUCH. THIS WAS SO HELPFULL!!!!!!

[@pantagana123]

Top! Short and spot on, ty! Subed!

[@patreasurehunters]

Thanks. Very easy to follow.

[@ottingervr6]

Awesome! Thank You!

[@monkeywrenchdesignshop7856]

Great video! Thank you

[@MannyGonzalez]

Thank you... The best part of it was not the excellent tip and technique but the fact that you did not mention who invented Photoshop and the reason rounded corners exist in nature :D Most videos and bogs these days spend 90% of the video or 10000 pages of text on some fluff. Yours was a master class in simplicity and effectiveness!

[@eliosejano]

Simple and useful. Thank you.

[@PaulHirst2]

Nice tutorial thank you Nicole

[@eranddroory9987]

Awesome .. Thank you so much..

[@bh8365]

Thanks for this useful tutorial. I'm looking for a way to center the shape once it is drawn.

[@eugenesolyanik775]

Thanks! Good tut!

[@aminsami6742]

that was clear and helpfull. thank you

[@LeventeSolczi]

Big big thank!!! :)

[@ItsWesSmithYo]

IDK how many years I have not known I could do this after the initial creation LOLLLLLLLL but thanks....my life has been changed ;)

[@billbuckleytutorials]

excellent thanks

[@mrfahleviriza4780]

thx u, u look so pretty .. thx u so much for this

[@Chris-pv8oj]

Thank you!

[@ccrookston]

very helpful!

[@UndervisningochIKT]

Great!

[@XianSaiful]

Thank you :)

[@cosmosbandit4807]

FINALLY!!! A YT Video about this that worked for me!!!! YAY!!!!!! TYTYTYTYTY!!!!!

[@MASO204]

BRILLIANT

[@shizyninjarocks]

Thanks!

[@kouetecabrel5571]

Thank you so so so so MUCH

[@QuintonHeck]

Great video tutorial thank you...I was literally stressing on how to crop my damn photo for an hour now

[@SlimOfficial0]

Nice tutorial, thanks.

[@nicolesy]

Thank so much! 🙏

[@Ramesh_editss]

Today it is my last vedio before sleep,but i watched a wonderful vedio Thank you mam😊😊😊😊

[@Ramesh_editss]

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[@Ramesh_editss]

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[@Ramesh_editss]

It's midnight here

[@ba3li177]

thank u

[@EveningRepublic]

THANKS

[@Cooked1]

This lady is a legend

[@joeyfalcon1793]

I never leave comments but thanks for the help!

[@RobLittle]

This is all great and all but how do you do this with an inverted corner on one of the corners. It used to be so easy in the older versions of Photoshop. Please help.

[@vrmblessed]

Great video. How would you format multiple photos? Thanks.

[@nicolesy]

Do you want to have multiple rectangles? Or more than one photo inside the rectangle?

[@Yeshua_Will_Arrive_Soon]

Thank you, praise God.

[@darlenepino1056]

Thank you very much. You described the process perfectly and concisely. I recommended your video to a friend. This is the most helpful video for how to do this. Other videos just didn't work with my latest version of PS software. Thank you again.

[@nicolesy]

Awesome, thank you!

[@Steph6Mc]

Very helpful! Thank you. I do need to to a business card with round corners, do I use the same methode in Photoshop or do I just use InDesgn and put a round corner frame around my document? Thank you in advance

[@nicolesy]

Either will work just fine.

[@Steph6Mc]

@@nicolesy thanks a lot

[@signals.]

how do you make it 3d without it breaking?

[@espektromedia82]

Thanks for the video, Is it not possible to do the same using the frame tool?

[@nicolesy]

It is possible! First create the shape using the *Shape tool* , and then make sure the layer is selected and go to *Layer > New > Convert to Frame* . You won't be able to edit the corners afterwards but you can make the frame any size you want this way.

[@espektromedia82]

@@nicolesy Thanks Nicole! Subed and like!

[@thatstrami]

Hello thank you for your video It really is very informative. Unfortunately I'm following the steps when I go to clip the layers together it does show the rounded along with the edges of the rectangle but it doesn't show that checker box background in the corners don't understand what I'm doing wrong but when I go to save it and then open the file again it doesn't open up with rounded edges like the finished product

[@nicolesy]

It sounds like you might have a background (or other) layer at the bottom, which is fine but you won't see the trasparency behind it (checkerboard) unless you delete it. Look to see if you have a layer at the bottom (below the rectangle) and delete it (highight the layer and press the Delete or Backspace button). Then, when you save the file as a png, it will be transparent.

[@WhyIsAllTheRumGoneX]

I'm doing a project that requires my finished product to be printed out since it's gonna be made into a book, and i was wondering if saving it as a PNG instead of PDF (since that was te recommend format) would mess up the printing process? I'm trying to just format my pages and send it to my editor for printing.. is this possible if i save it as a PNG?

[@nicolesy]

Book formats usually are in PDF when you upload them to print, but it depends on what you are using to print it. FWIW I use PNG files in my printed books often and they turn out just fine. I would consult with the printer to make sure since they are all a little bit different.

[@Zyrexia]

can i add a background to the image? like simple a plane black background

[@nicolesy]

Yep! One way is to add a Color Fill Layer (), set it to black, and put it at the bottom of the Layers panel.

[@WilliamGlover-ce2in]

I don'ts get the inner curve dot in my rectangle, help

[@theunveiling5D]

this should not take this many steps at all

[@ZankokuNoYami]

Mine doesnt give me those circles to let me change shape. It makes a flat block with no ability to modify it.

[@hishamhussein1836]

The little dots/circles in the corners are missing for some reason! How to show them please? I'm using Photopea

[@nicolesy]

Photopea and Photoshop are different apps, and this is a Photoshop tutorial.

[@PoirierFred72]

Incredible... My photo disappears every time I want to insert it into the rectangle (clip the photo to the rectangle)... I end up with a transparent background with a rectangle with rounded corners and nothing else ... What to do in this case Nicole? thanks in advance

[@nicolesy]

Check the rectangle layer with the shape tool active and make sure it has a solid fill on the inside in the options bar (and that it’s not set to empty). You might also want to check the “fill” setting in the layers panel and make sure it’s at 100%.

[@PoirierFred72]

@@nicolesy Indeed... The background of my rectangle was transparent... Thank you for the quick response.

[@leesa770]

When I export following your instructions, the png file is not exporting with the transparency, but rather has a dark grey background, which of course is not functioning as a transparent background.

[@nicolesy]

If you open the PNG in Photoshop, does it show the transparency? If not, and you are trying to upload it to a website, it could be that the site does not accept transparent PNG files.

[@Ride-Tahoe]

This used to be a lot easier using a selection border radius.

[@brianfulda]

I googled "how to round corners on an image in photoshop." None of the other solutions in search results worked for me, which included creating vector masks. This was simple and straight to the point and worked first try. Thank you!

[@dreamcatalogue4489]

i dont have any circles to drag to create rounded corner

[@nicolesy]

Are you using Photoshop version 2023?

[@PropertiesForSaleInJamaica]

Circles absent in my photoshop :(

[@nicolesy]

If you are referring to the indicators that you would use to create the rounded corners, first you will want to make sure that you have the same version (or newer) of Photoshop that is shown in the videos. You may also need to go to View > Extras and make sure that it is checked to show those circle indicators.

[@PropertiesForSaleInJamaica]

@@nicolesy ty

[@societycrumbles]

When I draw the rectangle it won't let me change the size / modify it, there are no dots that let you do that, what am I doing wrong?

[@nicolesy]

Make sure you are still in the rectangle tool (press U). It won't let you modify the original shape if you switch tools.

[@societycrumbles]

@@nicolesy Did that and there are still no points / dots showing and won't let me modify. It also creates a new layer when I make a shape.

[@nicolesy]

@@societycrumbles It's normal for it to create a new layer when making a rectangle shape (or any shape). Try going to View > Extras and make sure it's checked. If it's unchecked then the points will not show.

[@aMissingChunk]

@@nicolesy I have the same issue, and even with using the tool (and not switching tools) the dots to round the edges of the shape dont seem to appear by default?

[@nicolesy]

It occured to me that you might not have it set to "Shape" in the options bar. Look for the drop-down at the top-left (to the left of the "FIll" box) and set it to "Shape". If it's set to something else you probably won't get the dots or handles that you see in the video.

[@hey_luke_143]

[@vpcproduction7070]

rectangle tool and change to path not shape

[@manuelyepez]

In the 2024 version of Photoshop, to create a clipping mask, you should right-click on the image and select "Create Clipping Mask" (or the shortcut Option+Command+G on Mac) from the drop-down menu. Holding down the 'Option' or 'Alt' key will not work for this action.

[@nicolesy]

Your methods will work. However, holding the Opt (Mac) or Alt (Win) key also still works in Ps 2024 when you hover the cursor in-between the layers you want to clip.

[@manuelyepez]

​@@nicolesy You are right! I just realized my mistake. I wasn't doing it correctly. It works when I drag and drop "in-between" the layers. Previously, I mistakenly dragged the image layer directly onto the rectangle layer, which caused a duplicate 🙃.

[@aaronmerkel5216]

the little circles never show up

[@thomasanderson1416]

It's a shame this only works with the Rectangle shape.

[@luciejamisonfilm]

Great tutorial. Just me or does she sound like Meg Griffin (aka Mila Kunis?)

[@nicolesy]

I’ve never been told that before! 😄

[@antonyart2768]

Not working

[@georgemiminoshvili361]

not working

[@LeVraiPumkin]

Not work with the 2023 version

[@nicolesy]

Yes, it works with the 2023 version. That's what I show in this video.

[@kamilpphotos]

Way too long video for such simple action :) I was looking for 20-30s long video with instruction, without whole introduction etc...

[@nicolesy]

Try searching KZbin shorts instead. Most actual videos are not going to be only 30 seconds long.

[@princexfthesea]

Ok my curser isn’t changing 🥲