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On photshop i have made a "banner". Is it possible to make the rectangular edges circular? Also is it possible to cut some off the edge because its a bit to long.
 
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1. yes you can make the rectangular edges circular. But I forget how :p
2. Yes that is easy. Go image>canvas size. Than change the settings to what you feel best
 
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Oh thankyou Josh :) But sadly, when i click canvas size it does it from both sides, but i only want to make it smaller from the right side? Do ytou know how?

NVM, found out you gotta anchor :S
EDIT: If someone could answer my Question 1 i would be happy :)
 
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In order to create banners with rounded edges, you're going to need to use the Rounded Rectangle Tool. Insert what size you want your banner to be with the Rounded Rectangle Tool, right click - Make Selection, Copy - Paste on a Transparent background.
 
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On photshop i have made a "banner". Is it possible to make the rectangular edges circular? Also is it possible to cut some off the edge because its a bit to long.
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Assuming you already have the banner as a pic on one layer.

Create a new layer UNDER the layer with your pic, use the Rounded Rectangle Tool (under the Rectangle Tools group on the left) and draw out the rectangle.

On that layer, create a layer mask and fill it black

Alt-click the layer mask's thumbnail pic in the layers list. This will display the layer mask on-screen (instead of the layer). Use the rounded rectangle tool to draw the rectangle of your choice, and make sure you choose white as the rectangle colour.

The layer mask should now look like a black layer with a white rounded rectangle on it. The white rounded rectangle will define the stuff that is visible, the black regions will be transparent.

Go back to the above layer (the one with you banner pic), Right-click the layer name and choose Merge Down. A message will pop up asking to apply or preserve the layer mask. Choose Preserve since that lets you re-edit the mask if needed.

NOTE: This technique is more suitable if you want to be able to go back and make edits to the pic or to the mask. If you just want a quick banner with rounded edges, use Gliscor's technique, which is basically just to cut out a rounded-rectangle piece off your banner.


OFF TOPIC: found Ken Sugimori's twitter. Wish I were Japanese so I could understand OTL
 
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Guys I need urgent help.

There's an interface thing with photoshop I can't work around. And I NEED to work around it.

Basically photoshop cannot select and copy transparent pixels outside what it considers to be a "boundary". Put simply, if you ever try to ctrl+c something empty (pure transparent), it won't work. It's basically an auto-cropping selection (which btw Gimp doesn't do)

But that's trivial. The real issue is when you try to copy something, say for example a 100x100 square with a pic inside (transparent elsewhere). What photoshop will do is automatically crop to the bare minimum when the selection is made, i.e. if the pic is a 50x50 square, then photoshop only puts that 50x50 square into the clipboard rather than the full 100x100 selection box that was manually specified.

This of course destroys coordinate integrity.

An example of a guy I found online with same issue
http://forums.creativecow.net/archivepost/58/744910

Another example
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/859100

I have yet to find a working solution (aside from using Gimp as the clipboard, which is absurd and ridiculous). Please if anyone knows how to work around this issue, it'd be greatly appreciated. I'm still new to the software and this aspect of photoshop can severely undermine my working style.
 
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I've made a banner in GIMP that I want to put in my signature, but I don't know where to find the URL. I use Picasa as image hosting, but when I try to upload the banner it says, "Server rejected" and I can't upload it, therefore I can't get the URL. I need to know where else I can get the URL, or how I can fix the "Server rejected" problem. Thanks!
 
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Of course you can't get the URL if you can't upload it. URL means uniform resource locator, and it's used to locate resources that already are online.

Try hosting somewhere else like tinypic
 
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What does your picture look like, and how do you know it doesn't work?
 
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My picture is the one in my sig right now. I did what you said then put the pic in my sig but it still shows the white BG.
 
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I used paint.net, and I removed all the white around the image using the render select tool.
Looks's like this.

MeganiumBanner.png
 
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Shinx107 said:
My picture is the one in my sig right now. I did what you said then put the pic in my sig but it still shows the white BG.
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Well of course what I told you to do only gives the pic an alpha channel, meaning any erasing will erase to transparency. You still have to manually erase the parts you want to be transparent. The fastest way for your pic is probably using the bucket tool with white colour and the mode set to colour erase, then click on the white BG of the pic.
 
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You should save your file as a PNG file if you're just going to post it around the internet (like banners), and GIF if it's an animation, and also a PSD (if you're using Photoshop) or a XLF (for Gimp) file to edit later if you need to.
 
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pokemon99 said:
What type of file should I be saving my images as?
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Depends what you wanna do with the pic, and also the level of quality versus file size and whether or not you need transparency. For example PNG and TGA have higher quality and transparency support but take significantly more space than a JPG
 
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What is the color code of the area that will be behind the avatar? Like that greyish color that will be behind this Text? I need this for avatars because i dont have photoshop on my new computer
 
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Code: 
#efefef

However, on Photoshop, you can also put your image on a transparent layer instead of that color code so that the popout can show up on other websites that have a different background than the forums.
 
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