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I have a website with many thumbnails: each is a rectangle with square corners, bitmap fill, and a shadow. Is there a way to easily round the corners without making each one over again? I can't seem to find a way without remaking all of them.
Thanks!
Jim
Select with the Rectangle Tool and click the rounded corners button on the info bar :)
When I do that, none of the options are available. Plus, there is no "Curvature" option in the list.
The curvature button doesn't appear to be depressed in your image Jim
Sorry, I updated the attachment to show that it is. Same problem.
when you select one of the objects, does it say rectangle or shape on the lower left corner of Xara?... if it says shape, the rounded corner option won't have any effect... it only works on rectangles.
It says "1 clipped photo". What did I do wrong? I took this from one of the supplied templates. I'm guessing it's not really a rectangle at all.
clipped photos are "cropped" photos and although they're rectangular in shape visually, they're not rectangles as Xara defines it. You would need to draw a rectangle with the rectangle tool, and use a bitmap fill- then you can round the corners with the button on the tool bar.
Glenn,
Thanks. I've attached another screenshot of a different thumbnail which I also copied from a template. This one is editable but also says "1 Clipped photo" with the .jpg name after it. No mention of a rectangle. Any idea what the difference might be?
Resized photos for thumbnails are not rectangles which can be given rounded corners like the rectangle tool can.
You will have to draw a rectangle of the same size, round the corners, set behind the thumbnail and use 'Clipview'. Note that any editing you do to a photo thumbnail is reflected in the built-in popup, unless you make your own popups things like a rounded clipview, drop shadows etc will show in the large version too.
Also, this may not be clear to new users, but a rectangle, ellipse, and QuickShape are live objects.
In the case of the rectangle you can apply curved corners and go back next week or next year and edit the curvature. (I'm not real sure about more than a year because Xara has been changing things a lot of late).
However, once you convert any of these objects to Editable Shapes, then the live effects are removed and you can no longer automatically edit the curvature.
Gary,
Thanks for clarifying. I've learned a lot today that will be quite useful.
Jim