The Rectangle tool

Okay, so you drew some rectangles in the previous chapter. Let’s build on that by going through the various options for your brand-spanking-new rectangles. It will come as no surprise that these Rectangle tool options are located in, yes, you guessed it, the Tool control bar, as shown in Figure 3.2:

Figure 3.2 – The Rectangle tool icon and the corresponding Tool control bar options

Here, you have some manual control over the width (W) and height (H) of the rectangle, as well as two Corner Radius values (Rx and Ry) that correspond to the Corner Rounding Handles property on the top-right corner of the shape, as shown in Figure 3.3:

Figure 3.3 – Using the circular handles to drag the sharp corners into rounded ones

Dragging either of these handles will round the corner of your rectangle evenly on all four corners. You can also drag the other handle afterward to make an elliptic corner instead...