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12 Aug 2006 07:33 PM, by devvv (Bernhard Stockmann)

Rounded Corners

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

This article has been written using GIMP 2.3.11. It's divided into 4 steps and takes about 5 min to complete for an average user. 24441 times read so far. Category: Techniques, required skill: 2 of 5

5 comments have been posted so far.

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  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.
    Screenshot of step 1
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  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:
    Screenshot of step 2
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  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).
    Screenshot of step 3
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  4. 4
    Thats it! The final result should look like this:
    Screenshot of step 4
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This article is licensed under the following license: Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Austria

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  1. http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/rounded-corners.html Wed May 16 04:03:14 2007 kranthi, 16 May 2007 04:03 AM

    it so nice send me more tutorial list

  2. http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/rounded-corners.html Thu Aug 2 16:18:50 2007 henriquemaia, 02 Aug 2007 04:18 PM

    Nice effect. Thanks for posting this.

  3. http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/rounded-corners.html Sat Feb 16 18:21:37 2008 Gimp Nuub, 16 Feb 2008 06:21 PM

    TNx mate, your rly helped :D

  4. http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/rounded-corners.html Fri Jul 25 04:14:42 2008 KeKe, 25 Jul 2008 04:14 AM

    What text did you use?

  5. http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/rounded-corners.html Thu Sep 17 01:28:00 2009 Ardian Yuli Setyanto, 17 Sep 2009 01:28 AM

    thanks, learning gimp for web design.

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