How do I make one rounded corner

[DocRock]

Some unexpected results. In Xara Xtreme Pro 5 I'm trying to create an image with an upper right rounded corner and the other 3 corners square. I apply a rounded corner rectangle to an imported photo and apply clipview. The clipped image with 4 round corners is now 675x334. My intention is to crop the image to remove the 3 square corners, so I export as jpg and import. Now the image is 500x268!?! How can I end up with one rounded corner and the dimensions I want (555x255)?

[The Doc]

Create a rectangle with 'square' corners the size you need.
Convert to editable shapes.
Select thepen tool or editor tool and create an extra point each side of the corner you want to round.
Select the original corner point and delete it.
round off the corner.

[steve.ledger]

My method is to create a guide of 555x255 - turn on 'snap to guides' and draw your rectangle.
Double click a corner to create them as rounded then convert the rectangle to editable shapes.
While holding the ctrl key, drag a node to the corner intersection of the guides then select the remaining node and press 'delete'
Repeat this for the other corners leaving the top right corner rounded.

Demo movie:

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You can then shift+drag'n'drop you photo from the bitmap gallery (or windows explorer) to fill the shape.


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[angelize]

Another method: Draw a rounded rectangle, clone (ctrl+K), remove rounded corners on clone, nudge clone up and over the corner you want to keep rounded, arrange>combineshapes>intersect. See step by step below. Then you can fill the same way that Sledger suggests.

[Seagull]

The reason I continue to visit the forum is to find new ideas, such as Steve just posted. An approach I would never have thought of and it is going into my bag of tricks, which depends on a fading memory unfortunatly.

However, my prefered method is that which "Doc" pointed out, because it is more versatile.
The included image is two rectangles added together, which means you can not use Steve's method. Where I would modify Doc's approch is I create a circle (shown on the Yellow image) and clone it for every corner. This way you have a template to show where to install your points and also drag the 45 degree line to............frank

[DocRock]

Wow - you are all really Xtreme I will give each of these methods a try to see which one best fits my gray cell synapse patterns. Thanks to all of you.

[strat]

Hi,

If I draw a rectangle, can I just round one corner or two or three and then save it as a transparent png?

Thanks, I much appreciate the help I receive from this forum.

[Gamerprinter]

You need to either created a rounded rectangle, then create a non-rounded rectangle and place over the rounded cornered rectangle area with the corners you want sharp and Edit/Combine/Delete or Draw a line an Edit/Combine/Slice and remove the rounded corner edge you don't want.

For three rounded one square corner. Create a smaller square cornered rectangle and place underneath the rounded corner you want squared and hit Edit/Combine/Add.

You can't create a 2 or 3 rounded corner on its own without adding or subtracting the part away.

[Seagull]

Read the whole thread. There are different ways of doing this.........frank

http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?t=43995

[jvila]

Another way, it is not the easiest but you can learn to use more tools
Create a rectangle (rectangle 1) bigger than you desire, without rounded corners
Create a rectangle (rectangle 2) with the size you want and rounded corners.
Place the rectangle 2 over rectangle 1.
Select rectangle 1 and set no fill and no line to become it transparent.
Press shift and click over rectangle 2 to select both rectangles.
Press Q (clipview).
If you select the final shape you'll see such a symbol at center incdicating that shapes are clipviewed.
With mouse drag that symbol to adjust as you desire, you'll see that you can hide two or three corners of your rounder rectangle.
I'm attaching an example