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Creating Round Borders In Lightroom 3

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Stuart Little, our next guest blogger, is a Photographer, Writer, Blogger and Photoshop Educator with over 18 years experience in the field. Stuart has been teaching both Amateur & Professional Photographers since 1998 and he is based in the Scottish Coastal Town of Ayr in the West of Scotland. Visit Stuart's website http://www.alittlephotoshop.com.

Thanks to Seshu for giving me the opportunity to share with you a really cool and utterly simple technique for creating a rounded border from within Lightroom 3.

When Adobe brought out Lightroom 3 they added 2 new features to the post crop vignette that made creating vignettes even better than before. So much so that the older paint overlay style has kind of been forgotten until now.

Lightroom Effects Panel SettingsYou can watch the video for all the juicy know-how but for those of you who just want to get stuck in via your RSS reader then slide all the post-crop vignetting sliders to the left for a black rounded border, job done, nuff said. Yep! its that simple But here is the another cool thing. If you want a white border then just take the amount slider all the way to the right.

Rounded Corners In Lightroom 3

Best thing of all. You can save the whole lot as a simple preset so that one click will take care of it all in future. Fire up the print module and set the background colour to compliment the border colour. Make sure you are using custom layout and then you can drag n drop the round images directly onto a layout ready for printing. Although if you are going down the inkjet route I would go for a white border and save yourself some ink. Enjoy the video tutorial and dont forget to swing but alittlephotoshop.com for more Lightroom 3 training and free workflow actions for Photoshop.

Stuart has offered to send me another blog post, this time about creating a tilt-n-shift effect in Lightroom 3. Here's the deal, though, for that to happen I need to see at least 20 comments from you. Ask questions or suggest an alternative way of creating round corners. But I do need to hear from you. So, will you chime in? If you liked this post by Stuart, I think you will enjoy the next one too.

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Comments

    1. Anonymous says

      Like all things … in moderation … LOL! Great to see you visiting Tiffinbox. Looking forward to your guest post here someday real soon! Thank you, Zeke.

  7. Jackie says

    I was amazed at how easy it was – I would not have thought of using this technique! Keep posting these tips please!

  10. Kurt says

    Lightroom 3 is an awesome companion to Photoshop. Between the two programs there is not much a photographer can’t accomplish with a little thought and a few good tutorials like this.

  13. Gordonell says

    Always enjoyed Stuarts tips, tricks and tutorials and its nice to see he’s getting wider attention.

  14. Bruce Walker says

    That’s really thinking outside the (rounded) box! :) I’ll be able to use this. I really like being to work as much inside LR as possible without having to pop out to PS. Thanks!

  15. ANAPHOTO says

    Absolutely! Fabulous idea, amazing tool. Glad to have it at my fingertips after so many thousands of hours in LR without knowing that trick. Thanks!

  18. Moldaners says

    Good to know. I have just started using Lightroom, and am finding the learning curve more challenging than I’d anticipated. Any tips are extremely useful…thanks!

  20. Glenn says

     Thanks Stuart. One more tip to get a better Lightroom Education. I followed the link here from your blog.

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