From the course: Photoshop 2021 New Features
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Rectangles and ellipses - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2021 New Features
Rectangles and ellipses
- [Instructor] Photoshop 2021 offers on canvas controls for other dynamic shapes, including rectangles and ellipses. And so here we have two shapes that I drew inside Photoshop 2020. So, this applies to legacy files as well known as the rectangle layer is selected here inside the layers panel. And so on previous versions of the software, you could go up to the Window menu and choose the properties command in order to bring up the properties panel. And you could go ahead and change the width and height values, in order to scale that shape you could also introduce rounded corners by changing one of these radius values. And so let's say I change it to 12 pixels like so, and because the link icon is turned on all of the values change in kind, however, it gets even better inside Photoshop 2020, where we now have on canvas controls. And so if I switch either to the blank arrow tool or to anyone of the live shape tools, notice…
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The Line tool now draws lines2m 26s
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Using the new on-canvas controls2m 29s
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Working with live arrowheads4m 4s
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Rectangles and ellipses2m 39s
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Photoshop remembers rotations2m 42s
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Skews and distortions1m 38s
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The new Triangle tool2m 2s
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Live polygons and stars3m 5s
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Showing the reference point2m 10s
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