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The round corner widget

The round corner widget - Illustrator Tutorial

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The round corner widget

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- In this movie, I'll introduce you to the round corner widget which allows you to round off corner points regardless of what tool you use to create them. I'm going to start off the usual way, by going up to the File menu and choosing New from Template. Or you can press that keyboard shortcut Control+Shift+n or Command+Shift+n on the Mac. And then I'll go ahead and double-click on my RGB with center guides template in order to open up a blank document complete with center guides. And then, I'll go ahead and select my Rectangle tool from the the Shape tool flyout menu. You also have that keyboard shortcut of M. And now, I'm just going to drag to create a more or less centered rectangle, like so. And as soon as you do, you'll see these little round corner widgets in each and every corner. So, a rectangle, as you may be aware, has a total of four corner points. And as a result, we have four circular corner widgets. If I drag on one of those widgets, I end up rounded the corners, as you…

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