Okay, people, I'm sure that most of you have seen those cool and fancy curves around on the Web, or elsewhere, and I'll bet you wondered how they did it. Basically, to do rounded edges in Photoshop, you only need 2 tools and a little bit of time. I'm sure some of you have used other methods, such as making a circle, and putting it on the edges of a rectangle. That's too hard and time consuming to do. The second method is using the paths tool. Again, too time consuming and difficult to do. Now, let's start off with a 300 x 300 image in Photoshop, with a black background (I hate white.. don't use white if you're using my tutorial. ajjajajaja)

Okay, notice that there are no layers.. We won't need layers for this particular trick, at least not now. Okay, make a simple rectangular selection that is the shape of the curved thingamajig that you want. Be sure that you have a little room on the outsides of the selection, because we're going to be running a gaussian blur on this selection. Okay, fill this selection with white. (it must be black or white, i.e. black square on a white background. No colors.) Don't worry about the colors, you can fill them in later with a paint bucket.

Okay, now you photoshop nikkas have to deselect this selection by hitting Ctrl-D, or going to Select -> None. The next thing that we do is to run Gaussian Blur on it. That's Filters -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur. You want this blur to have a radius (there's a radius slider), between 5 to 20 pixels, depending how rounded you want it to be. Let's use 10 pixels. Now, for some goddamned reason, I can't take a screenshot of the Gaussian Blur window, so you newbies will have to wing it. Next, we hit Image -> Adjust -> Levels, or Ctrl-L. This little tool gets rid of the blur, and gives us our curved look.

You want the black and white slider arrows close to each other. If you do it too close, it'll look too sharp. Don't bother with the gray arrow, just move the black arrow to the right of the gray, and the white arrow to the left. Click on OK. You should have an nice, l33t rounded rectangle like this:

To use this in a layer, just use the magic wand, and copy/paste. Experiment with multiple selections and rectangles, and you can get an effect like the title image above. Ajajajajja, that's all for now!