1. Open your image file or create a new one.
2. Click SELECT/ALL.
3. Go to SELECT/MODIFY/SMOOTH and enter a radius. The higher the radius, the more rounded the corners will be.  20 is a good place to start. Repeat as needed until you have the roundness of the corners that you want.
4. Go to EDIT/COPY/PASTE.
5. In the LAYERS window, delete the “background”. You will be left with your rounded image.
6. Ideally, it should be saved as a PNG-24 to preserve the rounded corners.

With the 4th of July coming soon, I thought you might enjoy a great FREE photography lesson on how to shoot fireworks to get the best possible results. Today’s lesson can be found at Webphotoschool.com, a great resource for photographers interested in perfecting their skills: WebPhotoSchool - How to Shoot FIreworks

I am recommending to you an excellent page at digital-photography-school.com. If you haven’t already discovered this great photography resource, it would be well worth your time to check it out and join as a member! Their Digital Photography Tips for Beginners page helps you to understand such things as exposure, ISO, shutter speed, aperture, and white balance: http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/digital-photography-tips-for-beginners/

VERY IMPORTANT: There have been recent reports of a potential Adobe Flash Player exploit in the wild. Anyone with a Flash Player version lower than 9.0.124.0 should download and install the latest Flash Player update. If you’re not sure which version you have, visit this page at Adobe’s website, and it will tell you: http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/about/

From what I understand, you can become a victim to this exploit if you have an unpatched version of Adobe Flash Player and download an exploited flash file, open an email containing a flash movie, share a flash file via instant messaging, or visit a website that just has an exploited flash movie on it (which is almost impossible to avoid), regardless of which browser you are using or which operating system you are running.

More information about this can be found at the following links:
http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/2008/05/potential_flash_player_issue_u_1.html
http://www.symantec.com/norton/security_response/browsewebsafely.jsp

The update can be downloaded from Adobe’s website here:
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash

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