Hello, are you ready to master corner widgets? That's these little targets in the corners. Okay? We're gonna learn all sorts of cool shortcuts. We're gonna impress your friends  and colleagues, kind of we'll learn about life shapes  and the pros and cons for them. This is totally not a boring video.

It's full of good illustrated,  juicy goodness, all about corners. Let's jump on in. Alright,  I've just created an empty document. I've got the rectangle tool, I've got a fill, no stroke,  that doesn't really matter. I'm gonna draw out a rectangle using the  rectangle tool, okay? And if you can't see,  this is the things we're gonna be working with, okay?

These little corner widgets, okay? All these little targets, if you can't see them, go to view,  go down to show corner widgets, okay? You should see them. If you can't see them, uh,  best is probably jump to the black arrow selection tool  and have your object selected. Now, everybody's probably done this where you just, um,  you got my black arrow and then just grab one of the corners  and they all come along for the ride, okay? Because this is a rectangle of equal sides,  it's doing it for all of them.

If you have another shape, I'm gonna grab the pin tool  and I'm gonna create just an interesting shape, okay? All the way around. Go back to my black arrow,  click off, click back on. What you'll notice is that this one here with a black arrow,  I can see all the targets 'cause it's kind  of what's called a live shape. It's a, it knows it's a rectangle. This thing doesn't know it's a rectangle,  it's a rectangular, okay, but not a true rectangle.

So my black arrow doesn't show the targets if you don't see  them, switch to the direct selection tool,  which is the white arrow or the achy. And there you go. Now I can drag this in  and they all come for the right,  if you wanna do just one corner, okay? You can just drag a box around  where the corner would be, okay? And you have access to just that one corner, okay? So you've gotta just be mindful about where you're selecting  and you should be able to grab it.

Uh, a couple of other differences is,  another advanced feature is the corners don't have  to be round or they don't have to be ti round. Let's work on this one here. So I've got it selected. You can hold down the option key on a Mac alt, key on a pc,  and uh, click the corners, okay? And you can work your way through from an TI  to an n to a flat one. Okay?

It's up to you. I've never  used any other than the round. Okay? What I did do  for a long time there is did everybody do this? I feel like every, like, I don't know,  features box on a website  and on a brochure had this like, I don't know, pullout, kind  of like factor D thing in one  of these like teardrop shaped boxes. I love them.

I still love them. They're a creepy voice. Uh, so, uh, the other differences between these live shapes  and kinda regular shape, irregular shapes  that you've drawn is if I select them both,  I've got my direct selection tool. So the A key and I can see the targets. Watch this. This one here, if I hold down my kaman key on mic, uh,  control key in a pc,  the little corner targets disappear with this shape here.

If I hold the same key down  and double click it, you go into the transform panel,  you can jump straight to it, go window and go to transform. Okay? And let's look at the difference. We've got these rectangle properties. This one here has no rectangle properties. Okay?

This thing here has some special stuff, okay? It knows like what kind of corners does it have. Can you see I've got my uh, corner here. I want this to be an inni, but I want it to be bigger,  Okay? It needs to be bigger. I can unlink them  so I can work on the corners separately.

So you could be a bit more deliberate. Okay? I'm gonna hold shift and use my up arrow. So there's my four corners. I can decide what goes in the corners, okay? What shape they are.

Are they s are they flat ones? What sizes they are, you get a bit more control,  whereas some shapes don't. There's just none of this. That's why sometimes you're like,  oh, I was working before but now it's not  working live shape. Another one that has a live shape is the star tool. Okay?

So I'm gonna grab the star tool, drag something out,  and you'll notice that the star tool has star properties. I can go, you look at all my sweet stars, I can play  around the inner and outer radius in this transform panel  or like over here, I can grab this middle one. Okay? I can grab this out One. Live shapes are quite cool. Go on.

It's draggable. See this? I can move it up and down for how many points that I want. Oh, to a degree, only 20 is allowed. Okay? But you can type them in as many as you like over here.

The point is that I can mess around  with these corner options here. I can decide are they pointy, okay, or are they rounded? I'm gonna say rounded, but I need them to be not zero  because you can't have a rounded zero point. So I'm gonna make them, I don't know, 10, uh,  10 points and rounded. Can you see what I'm doing over here? You can actually drag 'em over here.

See, the star only has, instead  of having a million little uh, corner widgets only got two. So I can kind of go, uh, where we go. Let's grab this one. Can you see? I can go? Yep.

Yep. Nice. A it's like a biscuit. Okay, so there you go. Round the corners more than meets the eye. One last thing I wanna show you is, uh, it's kind  of a subtle change and it's hard to uh, let me demo it.

So I'm gonna go pointy. I'm gonna make this really kind of like,  um, sharp edged box. Okay? I'm going to grab my corner widget. I'm gonna go, I'm gonna select them all, grab them in, okay? And what I skipped over earlier is I'm going  to double click the edge.

Okay? I've got them all selected. Double click the edge is this one here. Rounding. Okay, actually I'm got them all selected. Okay?

I'm gonna select them all. Now I've got this one here. If I go through and double click this,  it's only gonna work with that one there. So I'm gonna cancel. I'm gonna hold shift  and grab all the corners I wanna, wanna mess with. Okay?

Double click any of them now. And rounding. This is the default. Absolute rounding. The relative rounding. Can you see what it does?

Sometimes you just don't want it to do this kind  of like perfect round of corner. You want something that kind  of like follows the line out and around. Okay? And you'll notice that it sometimes these ones here,  you can't even notice the difference, the top  and the bottom, but the left and right  because I've drawn it this way is a very big exaggeration. So if you were drawing something, you're like, ah,  it's doing this like weird geometric end  and you want something a little bit more, I don't know,  relative to the angle of the lines,  then you can mess around with those as well. Alright, my friends, you are now the master  of Corner Widgets in Adobe Illustrator.

Go forth and impress your colleagues  and I will see you in the next video.