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Tutorial: Rounded Corners

Written by · Created on Aug 12, 2006, last updated almost 14 years ago CC BY-NC License
Rounded Corners

Motivation

In this tutorial I show you how to easily round off existing hard edges from text or other objects.

Tutorial details

  1. 1

    Open up a new file. Create one or more layers with text on it. The written text should be relatively big in size so that you can see the final effect clearly.

  2. 2

    Now render the text (Layer / Discard Text Information) and apply a Gaussian Blur. → Filter / Blur / Gaussian with a value of 15. The higher the value the more rounded are the edges at the end. It should look like that now:

  3. 3

    Click right on on this layer, apply Colors / Curves. At the top left set the channel to “Alpha”. After that move the point at the bottom left to the middle, the one top right move at the opposite direction, also towards the middle.

    What happens here? The transparent part (the socalled alpha-channel) is moved together as far as possible until there is no half-transparent space left in the layer. The result of this is that there are either totally visible (100% transparency) pixels or totally invisible pixels (0% transparency).

  4. 4

    Thats it! The final result should look like this:

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Ardian Yuli Setyanto
about 15 years ago

thanks, learning gimp for web design.

KeKe
over 16 years ago

What text did you use?

Gimp Nuub
over 16 years ago

TNx mate, your rly helped :D

henriquemaia member for over 17 years henriquemaia 11 comments
over 17 years ago

Nice effect. Thanks for posting this.

kranthi
over 17 years ago

it so nice send me more tutorial list