LaTeX Photo With Rounded Corners

Question

I have a photograph that I'm loading into my LaTeX document.

I'd like the photograph to have rounded corners and no visible border.

I'd prefer not to edit the original photograph.

Any thoughts on how to do this?

Answer 1

Another possibility if you want to fix the dimensions of the pictures :

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture} 

\begin{scope}
    \clip [rounded corners=.5cm] (0,0) rectangle coordinate (centerpoint) (5,7.5cm); 
    \node [inner sep=0pt] at (centerpoint) {\includegraphics[width=6.0cm]{EiffelTall.jpg}}; 
\end{scope}

\begin{scope}[xshift=7cm]
    \clip [rounded corners=.5cm] (0,0) rectangle coordinate (centerpoint) ++(5cm,7.5cm); 
    \node [inner sep=0pt] at (centerpoint) {\includegraphics[width=10.0cm]{EiffelTall.jpg}};
\end{scope}

\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document} 

Answer 2

One way would be to use tikz to create a node with the image, and draw a rectangle with rounded corners using white color to clip the image. Here is the original image and one with the white rectangle drawn over it:

Notes:

• The value of \ClipSep defined the amount of clipping so this can be adjusted as desired.

Code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\newcommand*{\ClipSep}{0.4cm}%

\begin{document}
\includegraphics[width=5.0cm]{images/EiffelTall.jpg}
%
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node [inner sep=0pt] at (0,0) {\includegraphics[width=5.0cm]{images/EiffelTall.jpg}};
\draw [white, rounded corners=\ClipSep, line width=\ClipSep] 
    (current bounding box.north west) -- 
    (current bounding box.north east) --
    (current bounding box.south east) --
    (current bounding box.south west) -- cycle
    ;
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

Answer 3

I borrowed an image from Herbert's answer without his permission.

User defined data:

\def\M{3}% columns
\def\N{3}% rows
\def\scale{1}% scale
\def\filename{herbert}% filename

% Specify the cropping area.
\def\L{-2}
\def\B{-1.5}
\def\R{2}
\def\T{3}

Steps:

1. Specify the number of columns and rows. The greater values, the more accurate coordinates. Avoid changing these values after completing the 3rd step, unless you are happy to redo the 3rd step.
2. Specify the scaling factor. It does not depend on other steps.
3. Specify the cropping area. You might need a trial and error approach to find it.
4. Compile the following code with either xelatex or latex-dvips-ps2pdf. See the result, if the cropping region does not suit your requirement, do the 3rd and 4th again.

Hopefully, the given comments in the code are self-explanatory.

\documentclass[pstricks,border=12pt]{standalone}

\def\M{3}% columns
\def\N{3}% rows
\def\scale{1}% scale
\def\filename{herbert}% filename


\usepackage{graphicx}
\newsavebox\IBox
\savebox\IBox{\includegraphics[scale=\scale]{\filename}}


\usepackage{pstricks}
\psset
{
  xunit=0.5\dimexpr\wd\IBox/\M\relax,
  yunit=0.5\dimexpr\ht\IBox/\N\relax,
}



\begin{document}

% The following figure shows an image with a grid enabled.
% Use the grid to find the cropping area.
\begin{pspicture}[showgrid=true](-\M,-\N)(\M,\N)
    \rput(0,0){\usebox\IBox}
\end{pspicture}


% Specify the cropping area.

\def\L{-2}
\def\B{-1.5}
\def\R{2}
\def\T{3}

\begin{pspicture}[showgrid=false](\L,\B)(\R,\T)
    \begin{psclip}{\psframe[linestyle=none,framearc=0.5,dimen=middle](\L,\B)(\R,\T)}
    \rput(0,0){\usebox\IBox}
    \end{psclip}
\end{pspicture}
\end{document}

Output:

Original image with a grid.

Cropped image.

Answer 4

I'm surprised that nobody presented the solution of tikz, but when you don't know the size of the node. The idea is to print it one using phantom to get the size, and then use the tikz clip function.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\newcommand*{\bord}{1mm}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
  \def\ig{%
   \includegraphics[width=7cm,height=7cm,keepaspectratio]{example-image-10x16}}
 \node [inner sep=0pt](mypicture) at (0,0) {\phantom{\ig}};
 \clip[rounded corners=5mm] ($(mypicture.south west)+(\bord,\bord)$) rectangle ($(mypicture.north east)-(\bord,\bord)$);
 \node[inner sep=0pt](mypicture) at (0,0) {\ig};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

file:///tmp/Spectacle.f17590.png

Answer 5

If you just want round corners there are an easy solution: just use GIMP. Take your picture, go on filter -> decoration -> round corners and there you can make round corners and put a shadow beneath and a lot more.

I know it is not a really "LaTeX-solution", but it is the most easy thing to do. If you need to use Tikz everytime you will make round corners, it would take a lot of time. Especially if you use other commands on the picture already (minipage and so on). You can save a lot of time with using such simple methods as GIMP - so you can use it on more LaTeXic things.