Once again, if you have Smart Guides enabled, you’ll see the angles of the pie shape.ĭraw a polygon using the Polygon tool. Once you make an adjustment using the widget, you’ll notice a second widget is available that allows you to adjust two angles of the pie shape.
Click on the widget and drag up or down to remove that portion from the ellipse.
Instead of adjusting corners, it creates a pie shape. Now this widget won’t adjust the corner since ellipses have no corners. You’ll notice a widget on the right side of the shape. Select the Ellipse tool and drag to create an oval or circle. With the 2015 release of Illustrator CC, other shapes besides the rectangle got a feature boost by making them Live Shapes as well. The rounded corner is the default corner so when you drag a widget, the corners will initially be round, but you can change the corner type by simply option/alt-clicking on a widget to change the corner type from Round to Inverted Round to Chamfer (aka beveled). More after the jump! Continue reading below↓įree and Premium members see fewer ads! Sign up and log-in today. If you haveSmart Guides enabled, you’ll also see the radius value displayed as you drag. Click on any of these widgets and drag towards the center of the shape, and you’ll see the radius of the corners begin to adjust as you drag. When you release the mouse button after drawing a rectangle, you’ll notice a widget appear in every corner of the rectangle. Actually the Rectangle and Rounded Rectangle tools behave in almost the same way now, with the exception that the Rounded Rectangle tool will draw a rounded corner rectangle or square immediately, while the Rectangle tool will not. Start with the most basic shape tool, the Rectangle tool. Whether you like it or not, every shape tool in Illustrator with the exception of the Star and Flare tools creates a Live Shape-and the corners on the star shape can still be dynamically adjusted. With the latest version of Illustrator (2015.3.1 as of this writing), it’s hard not to create a Live Shape. It’s a tad ironic that Adobe InDesign beat Illustrator to the punch with this feature by several versions, but we’re happy to have this addition in Illustrator and the implementation of the feature is quite nice. With the 2014 release of Illustrator CC, Adobe gave us a taste of an improved way to modify the corners of objects in the form of the Live Shapes feature, and with each successive update, the feature has gotten better and better. A New Way to Round Corners in Illustrator So needless to say, applying corner effects to objects has always been a challenge. We could also apply rounded corners to a shape as an effect, but then making an adjustment to the radius of the corners required a trip to the Effects panel to make it happen, and the effect was global, meaning that it was applied to every corner of the object. Illustrator has had a Rounded Rectangle tool for many versions, but once you drew a shape with that tool, there was no way to modify the radius of the corners. Take a rounded corner rectangle, for example. However, some shapes were more complex to produce. Adobe Illustrator has always been the go-to application for drawing vector-based graphics due to it’s ability to draw a variety of shapes quite easily.