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Rectangles and ellipses

Rectangles and ellipses - Photoshop Tutorial

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Rectangles and ellipses

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- [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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