Making an action for rounded edges.

I have been wanting to learn how to make rounded corners in PS.

I looked it up and this is what I have done to get these rounded edges. I would love any shortcuts or ways to make this process easier.

I do not know how to take screen shots in ps yet so I will make a list. If you get stuck on one of the steps, email me and maybe I can help.

1. You need to know the pixel height and width of photographs straight out of your camera. You can find this out by opening a RAW file (or whatever size you shoot in) in PS. Go to Image>Imagesize. You should see the width and height of your photo in pixels. Write it down and then exit image size.

2. You now should still have the image straight out of the camera (SOOC) open in PS. If you want to make this an action, so you can apply this to all of the images you want with just one click, then go to Window in the main toolbar. Window>actions. Now there should be a pop up window
with the first tab (history) and the second tab (actions). Click on the second tab (actions). Go to the small arrow on the right. Click it and a drop down menu should appear. Click on New action. After clicking on this a new pop up box will appear. Name the action. I made two actions, one for horizontal photos and one for vertical photos. So I named the first one Rounded edges horizontal. I also checked off the default folder. This is where you will find the action once it is completed.

3. Go to Rectangle tool (in PS3 it is the icon on the side menu bar below the arrow)
right click to get drop down menu. Pick rounded rectangle tool.

4. Go to top menu bar and below edit and image you should see three boxes- pick the middle one (paths).

5. Next pick feather pixel dimension-this is how rounded you want the edges. The bw of my son has 70px feather and the color one has 125.

6. Go to the down arrow to the left of radius- geometry options drop down menu. Click and then eneter the pixel dimensions for height and width that you wrote down at the beginning when you opened a photo and checked it's size.

7. You will not be able to close this without actually making a fixed sized rectangle with the rounded edges, so when the numers are in, get ready, click BUT DO NOT RELEASE THE MOUSE BUTTON until you have moved the rectangle over the photo to the right spot. Once you let go it will stay there. If you mess up-go back int he history one step and then do over. This may mess up your action recording.

8. Now go to the layers box-it should have 3 tabs-layers, channels and paths. Click Paths. Then click on the small arrow on the right for the drop down menu, and click make a selection.
Now your rounded rectangle should have the marching ants around it.

9. Go to select>inverse
you have now selected the little square corners.

10. Click delete

11. Now go to the actions box and at the bottom click on the square. This will stop recording your action.

Viola!