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CreAte A rounded reCtAngle
In addition to basic rectangles, you can create frames with a number of special corner
treatments. The Rounded Rectangle tool automatically creates frames with special
corners, but you can also easily modify the corners of an existing frame to create the
effect you want.
1. With crowe.indd open, make sure the Rectangle tool is active, then zoom
into the left end of the black rectangle.
Note:
2. Press Command/Control, then click away from the existing shape to To deselect objects,
deselect it.
you can also choose
If you don’t deselect the existing shape, the changes you make in the next step would Edit>Deselect All.
affect the selected object.
Pressing Command/Control temporarily switches to the last-used Selection tool Note:
(Selection or Direct Selection). This allows you to easily make selections — or, in this When an object is
case, deselect an object — without changing the active tool.
selected, changing the fill
When you click to deselect the active object, be careful that you don’t accidentally click a and stroke values changes
white-filled object instead of the empty page or pasteboard area. those attributes for the
selected object. If you
3. In the Control panel, click the arrow button to the right of the Fill swatch change the fill or stroke
to open the attached Swatches panel. Choose Paper from the pop-up panel. color value with no
There is a difference between no fill and 0% of a color. Using 0% of a color — or using object selected, you define
the Paper color — effectively creates a solid “white” fill. (In printing, solid white areas the values for the next
knock out or hide underlying shapes.) object you create.

Fill color Note:
Paper is basically white,
but more accurately
named because the paper
for a specific job might
Make sure this shape
is deselected before not be white.
changing the Fill and
Stroke colors.

4. In the Control panel, click the arrow button to the right of the Stroke
swatch and choose None from the pop-up panel.
The “None” color option essentially removes color from that attribute. Underlying
objects will be visible in areas where None is applied.

Stroke color
Note:
Changing a fill or stroke
attribute when a group is
selected affects all objects
in the selected group.

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