Comments on: Round Off Technique

By: josh mishell

josh mishell — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:54:46 +0000

I’ve also found that if you ever use Live Trace in illustrator the round corners takes a lot of the sharp edges out of it. Live Trace works well in some situations, but miserably in others. Round corners is definitely something to check out.

By: boludo

boludo — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:58:34 +0000

Illustrator HAS the Round Corners plugin (or effect, as you want to call it).

Filter > Stylize > Round Corners

By: admin

admin — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:39:10 +0000

In CS2 Illustrator go to the menu at the top of the screen and follow this path and you’ll find the tool.

OBJECT>PATH>OFFSET PATH

There you’ll find the controls referred to in the tutorial. Under the ‘Joins’ drop down menu in the window that comes up you’ll want to select ‘Round’.

By: admin

admin — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 00:07:48 +0000

Yes, I added new information to the notes file with a suggested work around and sample image. On some angles it’s too extreme and no rounding will occur. On those areas you’ll have to go in and do it manually.

In the past Illustrator had a plug-in called ‘Round Corners’ which worked great but it stopped working after version 8. I wish they’d add that feature back in because you could round any type of shape irregular or not.

By: reverend

reverend — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 20:47:39 +0000

Very interesting technique and a sure shortcut to doing this by hand. I have tried this in Illustrator (CS) and must report that this does not seem to work all the time. I haven’t quite figured out why and under what circumstances, so if you do have any insights, please do share. Thanks.

By: xris

xris — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:01:17 +0000

QUALITY IS IN THE DETAILS!

This technique definately makes thw work look more refined and print-friendly.

I have many logos I would like to go back to and tweak with this technique but I cannot locate the INSET PATH TOOL in Adobe Illustrator 11.0.

PLEASE HELP.