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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.

45 replies

Participating Frequently
November 21, 2016
Long time waiting for essential features. Now the affinity photo in its first version already includes all this and more. Thousands of shapes with controls in affinity photo (awesome), in adobe to have this we have to go to illustrator.
Participating Frequently
July 6, 2014
incredibleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
PECourtejoie
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 25, 2013
Editable Rounded rectangle corners is one of the new features of Photoshop CC:

http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshopdotco...
Known Participant
February 4, 2013
My new Corner Editor script is now at http://photoshopscripts.wordpress.com...
February 2, 2013
Please let us know if you do. I would be all over it. Your script gets daily use in my designs.
Known Participant
February 2, 2013
I did it that way so the (quite crude) method I used to determine the radius of existing corners would still work if the script was run again on the same shape.

The new script only creates one point when the radius is set to 0. I'm aiming at releasing it this weekend.
Garconis
Known Participant
February 2, 2013
David, I've also been using it occasionally, and love it. The main downside I see though is that even when the radius is none (set to 0), the corner still has more than 1 point (it has 3). Would be nice if it could somehow delete the other 2 unnecessary points when that radius is 0.
Known Participant
February 2, 2013
Thanks for the feedback! I'll have a new version out soon that works with any shape with straight lines. It will also have multiple corner style options.
Inspiring
February 1, 2013
I have to say, we've been using it since first released and this panel is amazing. Many thanks to David!
el Fakir
Participating Frequently
February 1, 2013
This topic status is now "under consideration", it smells good. 😉 Maybe something is planned for CS6.5.