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marcbjango
marcbjango
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April 3, 2011
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P: It would be good if the roundrect vector tool corner radius was editable during and after drawing

  • April 3, 2011
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Problem Description — Illustrator allows realtime tweaking of the corner radius of rounded rectangles while drawing, using the arrow keys. It’s brilliant and takes the guesswork out of drawing rounded rectangles. Drawing a roundrect in Photoshop is a trial and error affair, because you have to choose the corner radius prior to drawing.

This means it usually takes several attempts to draw a rounded rectangle, because you have to delete what you’ve done and start again each time. It’d be even better if the rounded rect’s corner radius remained editable after drawing. Allowing a different corner radius for each corner would be the icing on the cake. Given the current implementation of vector rounded rectangles in Photoshop, I’m not sure how it’d be possible to implement edibility without significant changes.

Workaround — Lots of trial and error, drawing and redrawing until the correct radius is achieved.

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    maxim_
    Participant
    February 3, 2012
    Fireworks has ability to round corners via changing corner radius. It would be great to not redraw vector shapes in order to round corners in PS.

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    J453
    Legend
    October 26, 2011
    Please do a search to see if a topic already exists. This forum works best if you have one topic per idea. Add your vote to the existing ideas for layer style enhancements or create a new one if none of the existing ideas match your idea:

    http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh...

    http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh...
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    Anonymous
    October 26, 2011
    Please bring more tools for the UI Designer. like rounded rects that don't distort and better layer styles options.

    Garconis
    Garconis
    Known Participant
    July 13, 2011
    Sounds good. Looking forward to it. Now that I've been using this for creating web designs, it's hard to stop using it. Ha.
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    Yelnats1
    Known Participant
    July 13, 2011
    It's a Flash panel, generated by Configurator. I just attach a script to each button, and the script is only running for a moment when you press a button. Maybe the Flash player is stealing focus. I've had issues with text fields in Photoshop.

    The scripts could also be called by a set of actions, or a modal dialog. I'll try to put something together this weekend.
    Garconis
    Garconis
    Known Participant
    July 13, 2011
    David, FYI -- I've been using your extension for a while now (since you posted it), and within the last 2 weeks, it seems it has been causing my Photoshop to lag. Mostly just when clicking on things (such as selecting text, clicking layers in the palette, etc.).

    I'm not sure if it is your extension that is causing the lag, or just the Extensions in general. But yours was the only one I had installed, and whenever I disable it...Photoshop no longer lags. Any ideas?
    marcbjango
    marcbjangoAuthor
    Known Participant
    April 18, 2011
    David, you're a champ! Thanks.

    (Sure, it's not as good as having the feature in the app, but a good stopgap.)
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    Yelnats1
    Known Participant
    April 18, 2011
    I made a little configurator panel that will adjust the pixel radius of a Rounded Rectangle vector mask. It isn't as smooth as a built in tool would be, of course.
    Currently, it can only adjust one layer mask at a time. It only works if there is only one sub-path in the selected layer's vector mask.
    Unzip to [Photoshop 5 directory]\Plug-ins\Panels\
    http://sites.google.com/site/davidjen...

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    Garconis
    Garconis
    Known Participant
    April 17, 2011
    Great idea, considering I create these very often (am a Web Designer). I hate having to redraw the shape because I guessed the wrong size for the corners. And as stated above, I also like the idea of having an option (potentially a checkbox somewhere) to resize/transform the square/shape but retaining the size of the original corners. Doesn't Illustrator have a similar feature/option?
    marcbjango
    marcbjangoAuthor
    Known Participant
    April 7, 2011
    Without starting a huge debate on the topic, I'll just say that I've tried lots of different apps and methods and I really love Photoshop. Part of that will be due to my history (have been using it since version 2), but I've always tried to reassess regularly and make sure I'm using the best possible methods.

    So while Photoshop may be lacking in some ways for UI design, it's still my favourite. And if some of these smallish things can be tweaked, I think it'll be the best tool for the job by far.
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