[Gimp-user] Rounding those corners

[John R. Culleton]

On Saturday 28 July 2007, saulgoode at flashingtwelve.brickfilms.com 
wrote:
> > Hi gimp-user,
> >
> > How are you creating a single rounded corner, like those used for
> > css boxes with rounded corners.
> >
> > (i.e., http://www.csszengarden.com/063/corner_yelongreen_tr.gif)
> >
> > Or, if you wanted to outline an image's left, bottom, and right,
> > sides and round the lower corners (radius 8), so it would look
> > like a "U" without the tail and a flatter bottom (again for use
> > in CSS background for a round cornered semi-flexible box).
>
> There is a nice tutorial on GUG (GIMP Users Group) which suggests a
> method (http://gug.sunsite.dk/?page=tutorials). If you wish to have
> only certain corners rounded, I would propose rounding the corners
> on a duplicate layer then erasing the unwanted regions (or use
> layermasking) to reveal the original.
> _______________________________________________

Typesetting programs like Context have this as a normal feature. If 
you are indeed importing text into Gimp and putting it in a box it 
might make sense to typeset it externally and import the eps. 

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