PS: Live Shape Control for Rectangle gone

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June 24, 2026
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With the rectangle tool I created a rectangle. After like 15 minutes of not working in Photoshop and not changing anything at all the “Live Shape Control”, which shows you handles to stretch the rectangle or round the corners, was not appearing anymore.

When looking into the properties I also don’t find any settings that I can change (I attached screenshots of a “working” rectangle and the “corrupted” rectangle).

How can I repair the corrupted rectangle and make the “Live Shape Control” and the property settings available again? (I’m not talking about a workaround - I’m looking for a fix of this issue)

Kind regards
Nico

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c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

How exactly did you transform the Shape Layer (as it appears to have been rotated)?

Could you have used the Pen Tool or the Direct Select Tool on it?

I think someone created a Script to add rounded corners to rectangular Paths a while back (before Live Shapes), but I am not sure whether this accounted for rotated shapes.