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Rounded Rectangle Tool of Photoshop: For that Edge on Your Business

Article by Manish Shrivastava - May 15, 2009

Adobe Photoshop's finesse in creating graphic designs is second to none. Being the most preferred choice of all graphics designers, the program has reaped enormous reputation globally. High on image editing features, the program allows a designer to play with all sorts of image editing requirements without any hassles. A fun to use, the software has answers for all designing needs.

The graphic & web design industry is one such field where the creative minds called graphic designers work towards a common goal of offering the best services to their clients. With so many features and tools incorporated into it, Photoshop plays a major role in any designing activity. The Rounded Rectangle Tool of Photoshop is one of the most commonly used Photoshop features in creating rectangular shapes and paths. It's a shape tool and it helps a web graphic designer to draw a shape of a square with rounded edges

The Rounded Rectangle Tool of Photoshop can be found just below the Type Tool beside the Path Selection Tool. By simply going to the tool option and just by clicking on it, the tool can be selected. After the selection is done, you need to position the pointer inside the work area and by just clicking and dragging it you are all set to go. Now, you can draw rounded rectangle of any size that you want.

By holding the shift key and then clicking and dragging the tool, you can draw square shapes with rounded edges as well. While using the tool, you can also apply special effects to created shapes and layers. In order to do that in graphic web design, designers choose the required style in the style picker (Options Bar).

In fine it can be said that the Rounded Rectangle Tool is a frequently used Photoshop tool used by all graphic design companies .

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I am the webmaster at www.synapse-consultants.com - a web graphic designer company offering numerous services, such as content management, offshore software development, online marketing, search engine optimization, search marketing, and website maintenance services.




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