Rounded Corner Border – Creative Lightroom Episode 6
This weeks episode of Creative Lightroom has a super quick but very smart looking border effect.
Rounded rectangle borders like this look amazing not only on vintage and retro photos but are just great with any photo. Back when I started taking photos as a VERY young child all the prints would have rounded corners just like this.
In the video I show you just how quick this effect can be made, plus some variations on the look. OK I say variations but in reality you can have a black or white border that’s either soft or heard edged. You can also choose the roundness of the corners too.
To create this effect you’ll need either Lightroom 5, Lightroom 4 or Lightroom 3
In the video I mention my hand painted border effect from episode 2, which you can see here www.gavtrain.com/?p=3162
As always it’s worth mentioning that if you’re a Photoshop user rather then Lightroom user, EVERYTHING I show in the video is the same as Adobe Camera RAW in Photoshop CS6 and Photoshop CC. It’s also possible to pull off the same trick with older version of Photoshop from CS4 onwards.
Can’t see the video? Click here: http://youtu.be/8F_xj4NSb7Y
Hi Gavin, a very clever effect and so simple now you’ve shown us. I sometimes reduce the feathering just to see where the midpoint is when I’m adding a vignette so that you get that hard edge but I never thought to push it right to the edge of the picture. Thanks for the tip !
Great tutorial … as usual – so easy to follow and so effective. Thank you.
Thanks Gavin as ever! from the South of France on Hols!
Hi Gavin,
thanks for your video.
I’m trying to add drop shadows to photos in the Lightroom V5 book module but it seems that it isn’t possible (except in the slideshow module)
Can you advise any tips or work arounds?
Regards
KJ