Could someone please put me in the right direction for adding pictures into the rounded retangular tool etc,for photoshop/image ready CS2 as I want to use this for website. I did learn this last year went away travelling for a few months and just cannot remeber what I did or where I found instructions.

Also, would these instructions work on illustator also. As I would like learn for both

Many thanks
Diane

1. Create new document, Use rounded rectangle tool to draw shape/size
you wish to use
2. Hit Ctrl-Enter to turn that into a selection
3. Open picture you wish to "put into" the rounded rectangle
4. Ctrl-A on your picture to select all (or, use an appropriate tool
to select as much of the image as you want to use)
5. Ctrl-C to copy image
6. Switch back to the document with the rounded rectangle selection in
it
7. Edit -> Paste Into

Your rounded rectangle is now a "mask" for the image. In the Layers
palette, you can select the mask to move it around & modify it, or you
can select the image to move that around or modify it. Piece O cake.

The process is much easier in Illustrator. Open the image you wish to
mask with Illustrator (if you can), then draw a rounded rectangle over
it in the shape you wish to end up with, select both the rounded
rectangle AND the image, and hit ctrl-7 to "Create Mask". The rounded
rectangle has to be "on top" or "above" the image for it to work,
layer-wise... though in this case "layer" is probably too strong a
word. Hopefully you know what I mean.

On Mac, replace CTRL with CMD.

J

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