CS5: Rounded selection with image dimension?

Hello,
I wanted to create images with roundes corners. Therefore I am using the roundec rectangle tool to create a mask.
But how it is possible (the shortest way) to have this rectangle the same size of the image?
In some layout programs you can double click the rectangle tool to create automatically a rectangle with the same dimensions of the document -- such a behaviour oder feature in PS would be nice (and this would the shortest way for my task). This is what I am looking for.
thanks
carlox

Mike Gondek2 wrote:
View >> Snap to document bounds does not seem to do anything for me.
In my experience the snapping doesn't seem to apply to everything I would expect to snap. For example drawing shapes and selections don't snap for me while moving layers and transforming snap as expected.
cmeira, Sorry, I didn't read very carefully your first post.
This time I tried it myself and here's how you can do it:
Go to Layers > Vector Mask > Reveal All to attach a vector mask to the current layer.
Take the Rectangular shape tool and in the Shape tool's options click the "Paths" button for the kind of path and then also the last button which is "Exclude overlapping path areas"
Draw the rectangle path so that it fills the entire image. I find this easier by first drawing random rectangle and then pressing Ctrl + t and dragging two opposite corners to snap to the corners of the image.
Now take the Rounded Ractangle tool set the Radius for the corners in the options as desired and draw a random rounded rectangle.
Then get the Direct Selection Tool (white arrow under the T "text tool"). Drag to select all four points on one side of the rounded rectangle, then click and start dragging one of the selected points and hold the Shift key to constrain move the points to the edge of the document where they will snap. Repeat the same for each side.
This process would have been greatly simplified if Photoshop enable snapping while drawing vector shapes. If it does I don't know how to do it.

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