- 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 see here.
And as long as your smartguides are turned on,
then you'll see a little heads up display
telling you the radius of that corner.
So for example, let's say I set the radius
to exactly 100 points.
That means we end up having an arc at this location
that measures 100 points tall and 100 points wide.
Just as if we had drawn it with the Arc tool
except obviously, it's a lot easier to just round the corner
as opposed to draw this arcing segment
with the Arc tool.
Another option is to double-click on one of these widgets
which will bring up the Transform panel,
as we're seeing here complete
with these rectangle properties.
And so, I can change the size of my rectangle if I want to
to let's say 500 points wide.
And if the Chain icon is turned on,
then that's going to change the height value as well.
You also have the option of rotating your shape as you like.
And you also have these numerical corner options.
Now by default, they're all linked together,
so the Chain icon is turned on.
In which case, if I change any one of these values
to let's say 50 points, and press the Tab key,
then they're all going to change to 50 points.
If that's not what you want, then just go ahead
and click on the Chain icon to turn it off.
And then, let's say I want the upper left corner
to not be rounded at all.
I'll change its value to zero,
and then I'll tab to the lower left corner
and I'll change it to 100, and I end up
with these differently rounded corners.
All right, I'm going to go ahead
and hide the Transform panel.
And I'll press the V key to switch to the black arrow tool,
at which point you'll see
all those corner widgets disappear.
But you can bring them back and gain more control over them
by switching to the white arrow tool.
Which of course you can do by pressing the A key.
A for arrow.
And now notice, if you go ahead
and click on this corner for example,
you can drag its widget independently of the others.
So all the other widgets disappear
when this one corner is selected.
And that way, I can modify this corner independently
either by dragging it, like so.
Or, if I know a specific value,
I can change this corner's value up here
in the Control panel to something like let's say 100
and press the Enter key, or the Return key on a Mac
to make that change.
Now, notice that we no longer have a single corner point.
We have two modified cusp points.
And yet, they still respond to this round corner widget.
So let's say I want to make this one appear again,
then I would just go ahead and click
on this segment, like so.
Or, you can select one or both of those cusp points
and then go ahead and drag that corner widget
to any setting you like.
And if you drag it all the way toward the points,
then you're going to end up with a radius value of zero.
In other words, you're going to once again
arrive at a sharp corner point.
All right, so that's how the round corner widget works
with rectangles.
In the next movie, I'll show you how it works
with other shapes.