Cropping images to curved corners

HI All,

I wondered whether anyone could suggest a way of transforming the corners of an image so that they are rounded rather than 90 degrees?

Cheers
Andy

Yes, with Xara Xtreme you're able to crop images to each form you like:

1. Import your image.
2. Create a rectangle with curved corners (if your rectangle is selected, there is a icon "curved corner" in the toolbar to create rounded corners) or create another shape form (perhaps a star).
3. Select the rectangle/shape and the image both (Shift-Click).
4. Choose Menu "Arrange" -> "Combine shapes" -> "Substract shapes" or "Intersect shapes" or "Slice (cut) Shapes".
5. Last, but not least take a look at the tutorials in the XaraXone Workbook section and take a look at the Xara Movies (Menu "Help" -> "Movies").

Regards,
Remi

You could also send the rectangle behind your image, select both and then Arrange>Apply Clip View.

Hi remi,
Many thanks for that info. I managed ot get it to work, but now I have the Rounded image and the original 90degree images somehow "grouped". I presume there is a way of removing the squared cornered image to leave only the rounded corner image? I have added a rounded corner rectangle behind the newly created rounded corner image to act as a coloured border. I guess I am probably doing it the wrong/long way round...

Off to look for some tutorials now....

Cheers
Andy

This is how my image now appears..... as you can see the original small image, which I wanted to round the corners of, has become grouped to the square cornered image. I don't seem to be able to remove the square cornered image. I can't find a tutorial to cover this...

Cheers
Andy

Andy,

If you click on the smaller rounded photo what does the status line in the bottom left corner of the Xara window say? 1 bitmap or 1 group? Could you attach the xar file?

Hi Egg,

Here's the xar file.....

From the file you sent me, with the Selector tool click anywhere on the drawing.
From the top menu go Arrange / Ungroup.
Now click outside the drawing to deselect everything.
Now click on the rounded photo. The bottom left tells you its a Shape.
From the top menu bar go Arrange / Break Shapes.
Now click outside the drawing to deselect everything.
Click on the photo with the squared corners and hit Delete.

Hi Egg,
That worked brilliantly.... Easy when you know how.....

Cheers
Andy

I notice that all the rectangles your using are not complete pixel sizes & they also have stroke widths of .5pt. It would be far better to have no stroke. It makes it far easier to get the true dimensions of the rectangles.

Another way. Rich

I tried changing the dimensions in the settings bar at the top of the page ("W" and "H") but it doesn seem to be retained. I have changed the "0.5pt" to "None". Care to elaborate upon the significance of making these changes?

Cheers
Andy

Andy,

There's been quite a bit about this in the Forum lately. To get a clean looking image for a background on part of your web page you require the source rectangle to be in whole pixels (w & h) as well as in whole pixels (x & y). If this isn't the case, when you export the shape the edges will antialias the edges which isn't usually what's required.

After having made the rounded image successfully yesterday I can't seem to get it to work today with a different image. I seem to be getting the image tiled within the rounded corner rectangle.... darn it all... does anyone have a video tutorial for this sort of thing somewhere that I can bookmark?

Andy

Sorry Andy, I've lost track of which method you are now using. However, if you are getting a repeating tile, then I assume you are using the image as bitmap fill.

If this is the case, select your graphic, then select the Fill Tool and look at the context toolbar and change the "Fill Tiling" dropdown (second from left) to Single Tile.

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Originally Posted by AndyD

does anyone have a video tutorial for this sort of thing somewhere that I can bookmark?

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Look at Menu "Help" -> "Movies" and choose in the section "Working with photos" the video "Photo crop".

Regards,
Remi

HI Bob

I tried to follow the method mentioned by Remi and Egg.

Andy

Thanks Remi,
Just used the movie method...

Cheers
Andy

You can fill an image into an object of a set of grouped objects. For the grouped set, if they are ungrouped, the individual pieces can be moved about. Use the fill tool to adjust the placement. Rich