Problem with the new 'Photo grids' - unrounding the borders again.

**Know1** · 30 July 2016, 11:34 PM

I'm playing around with the new features and I ran into a problem with the new photo grids. When I round a corner to the extreme with the orange dot, it disappears beneath the blue dot. (This only happens if the image is square or if the image is taller than it is wide due to the location of the orange dot.)

I haven’t figured out yet how to ‘un-round it’.

Any ideas?

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**Egg Bramhill** · 31 July 2016, 12:06 AM

Just a quick fix, hit undo

**handrawn** · 31 July 2016, 08:00 AM

I think this happens when the side in question becomes an arc [ie: no flat] - I know that making a bitmap copy will reset the handle positions which may allow you to keep on working, but I don't know if you can necessarily undo what has been done this way

**Christine Farrelly** · 31 July 2016, 10:19 AM

Drag the blue dot down slightly and it will reveal the orange dot.

**handrawn** · 31 July 2016, 12:13 PM

doesnt that actually resixe the object in some way?

**Christine Farrelly** · 31 July 2016, 02:00 PM

yes, but as the originator wants to remove the roundness he can then adjust to whatever is required.

**Acorn** · 31 July 2016, 02:16 PM

Luckily, if you zoom into the blue dot, you will find normal magnifications do not actually fully overlap the two dots.
At maximum magnification, you should still have separation.

If you don't then create a line parallel to the edge that you need to expand to get to the orange dot.
It also works on the edge with the orange dot but you need to shrink the dimension.
Set its with Snap to objects against that edge and then increase the size to expose the orange dot and re position the dot.

Sadly, Snap to objects and Smart Shapes don't mix but you at least have a marker to aim for.

I think Xara needs to rename these to Not-so-Smart Shapes.

Acorn