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FERSTER
Gary Ferster
In the planning stages for a promotional email template for his
reelwelldone.com
website, Gary Ferster intended to create rectangles, apply uniform rounded corners
to them using
fx
> Stylize> Round Corners from the Appearance panel. However,
Ferster has since discovered that creating and modifying rounded corners using
Live Rectangles provides him with superior control and flexibility. He began his
design in a new document, choosing the Web profile (which sets pixels as the
default units), and a width of 600 pixels. After setting an orange fill and increasing
his black stroke to 3 (pixels) in the Control panel, he used the Rectangle tool to
draw a rectangle on the artboard, which opened the Transform panel. While the
rectangle was still selected, he entered 10 in one corner radius value box, and (with
the default link enabled) all radii updated to 10 pixels.
To place a photo “inside” the still-selected rectangle without losing its styling, Ferster switched to
Draw Inside mode (Shift-D), pressed -Shift-P/Ctrl-Shift-P (File> Place), located the desired photo,
and clicked OK. With the loaded cursor he click-dragged over the bottom portion of his rectangle,
placing the image “inside” the rectangle, which then became a filled and stroked clipping mask.
