[Tex/LaTex] How to make a colored rounded text box

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I would like to know which is the preferred way to make a colored, rounded text box?

I would like to show important notes for example.

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A small example...

\documentclass{book}

\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{tcolorbox}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}    

\begin{tcolorbox}[width=\textwidth,colback={green},title={With rounded corners},colbacktitle=yellow,coltitle=blue]    
   \blindtext[1]
\end{tcolorbox}    

\begin{tcolorbox}[width=\textwidth,colback={red},title={With true corners},outer arc=0mm,colupper=white]    
    \blindtext[1]     
    %\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{frogimage.png}
\end{tcolorbox}    

\end{document}

I hope, you do not mind using your profile photo ;-)

enter image description here

Note:

I took the liberty to add a background color, and tikzsetting to illustrate some of the customization that are possible -- see the mdframed documentation for more options.
Updated to incorporate Torbjørn T.'s suggestion of adding a \vspace{\abovecaptionskip} in \def\@fs@mid{} as per How to frame a figure in Lyx.

Code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage[framemethod=tikz]{mdframed}

\mdfdefinestyle{myFigureBoxStyle}{backgroundcolor=yellow!10,, roundcorner=25pt,tikzsetting={draw=blue, line width=1pt}}%

\makeatletter
  \newcommand\fs@myRoundBox{\def\@fs@cfont{\bfseries}\let\@fs@capt\floatc@plain
  \def\@fs@pre{\begin{mdframed}[style=myFigureBoxStyle]}%
  \def\@fs@mid{\vspace{\abovecaptionskip}}%
  \def\@fs@post{\end{mdframed}}\let\@fs@iftopcapt\iffalse}
\makeatother

\floatstyle{myRoundBox} 
\restylefloat{figure}

\begin{document}

\floatstyle{boxed} 
\restylefloat{figure}

\section{Using boxed}
\begin{figure}[h]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.35\textwidth]{../images/EiffelTall}
    \caption{Some caption}
\end{figure}

\floatstyle{myRoundBox} 
\restylefloat{figure}
\section{Using myRoundBox}
\begin{figure}[h]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.35\textwidth]{../images/EiffelTall}
    \caption{Some caption}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Colored box with image and text, no margins

One could use tcolorbox or mdframed, for example, but this can also be done without those powerful packages using some boxes (for example, a \makebox, a \parbox of width equal to \paperwidth, a \colorbox and some minipages for the inner contents); something along these lines:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{lipsum}% just to generate filler text

\begin{document}

\lipsum[4]

\par\medskip
\noindent\makebox[\linewidth][c]{%
  \colorbox{gray!30}{%
    \parbox{\paperwidth}{%
      \hspace*{\dimexpr\hoffset+\oddsidemargin+1in\relax}%
      \begin{minipage}{.2\textwidth}
        \includegraphics[width=\linewidth,height=3cm]{example-image-a}
      \end{minipage}%
      \begin{minipage}{.05\textwidth}
        \mbox{}
      \end{minipage}%
      \begin{minipage}{.75\textwidth}
        Some other text\par\bigskip
        \begin{tabular}{@{}ll@{}}
        Email \\
        Phone \\
        Address
        \end{tabular}
      \end{minipage}%
    }%
  }%
}\par\medskip

\lipsum[4]

\end{document}

The result:

enter image description here

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