This is just me, and some people might accuse me of going the long way around the block. But...
One of the annoying things about Illustrator is the relatively minimal control that you have over rounded corner rectangles. It seems to me that you have two options if you wish to adjust the corner radius:
1/ Use the left and right arrows to alter the corner radius as you're drawing. All very well but the problem is that the box you are drawing very quickly gets to look like a circle and you tend to lose any fine control.
2/ Single click on the artboard and then key in the corner radius that you require. This is a little hit and miss but it works if you’re prepared to keep deleting the object until you get the size that you require.
Me, I prefer to draw myself a plain old rectangle and then move over to Effects>Stylize>Rounded corners. You can then turn on preview and use the up and down arrows to intuitively change the corner radius of an object. As I said: longwinded, sure. But to me it's the best of a bad lot.
Sunday, 3 June 2007
Illustrator: Perfect Rounded Corners
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I have spent much of today trying to fine-tune my rounded rectangles in Illustrator -- I can't believe there isn't a means to bring up the Rounded Rectangle: Options window for an existing shape. After all, a shape can be re-sized at any time, so why is it not just as simple to edit the degree of rounding?
You can't do this. However you can simply create rectangles and go to Effects> Stylize> Rounded corners.
You can then edit this setting at any time by going to the Appearance Palette.
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