If you're referring to using the Rounded Rectangle shape tool, I've already explained the benefits of using this technique over it.

If you're ferring to using the Elyptical Marquee tool, I have no idea how that would help.

Feel free to explain! :)

Fantastic, thankyou

I wish someone would write a tutorial for this for Paint Shop Pro. :)

Thank you, Aken. :)

Hey, Aken. Now I need to know how to save it for a web site. If I click on Save for Web it save the enire box.. and I need the top-left corner, the top-right corner, the left line, the right line, the bottom line, etc, etc. Wich is the best way for do this?

Typically when I want to create a box outline for a website, I use the following steps:

1) I start off by adding Guides to get the appropriate size box that I'm looking for.

2) Make the box using the steps in this article.

3) Using the Rectangular Marquee tool, I select a small square box (usually about 20-25 pixels) around the left corner, use the Copy Merged function to copy everything inside of it (in case you didn't know, Copy Merged copies every layer instead of just the one you currently have selected in the Layers palette), and then open a new image, paste it, then Save for Web.

4) Use the selection / copy merged / blah blah step for the other corners, the whole top, the background, or whatever other parts of your box you want to use.

5) Use and enjoy :)


Currently my normal computer is broken, so I'm stuck on my mom's laptop, otherwise I would've made that little how-to a little more in-depth. Hopefully I made it clear enough. If you have any questions, just ask! :cool:

Thank you, I will try!

How can I define wich colour the Alpha 1 will come with?

Sorry to anyone who viewed this article in the last week or so, and saw no images in the first post. I recently switched web hosts, and forgot I had the images hosted on that site. They have been re-uploaded and work fine once again :D