How to Change Shape Corners in Illustrator

You may have always been wondering how designers create different styles of corners like round ones. As we usually see them in many designs and the rounded corners are always impressive. Well, you can change any shape of corners into rounded ones and you can increase or decrease the rounding as well.

Change Shape Corners in Adobe Illustrator 2023

Let’s have a look at how to edit corner radiuses more quickly and easily in Adobe Illustrator.

There are two steps to do that; the first is to select a shape, and you’ll see these little dots in the corners.

Simply click and drag towards the center with the selection tool or the direct selection tool.

You can round off the corners or make them square again.

You can quickly change the radiuses of the corners by using this method.

Another option is to select the shape. If you click on this little shape properties menu, it will show you the shape properties.

The link can be selected and we can set a corner radius, so let’s set 50.

As you can see, it curves nearly all around the edges. We can un-link these if we want to have one corner square, while the rest curved.

To make the top-left corner completely square, we’re going to make it zero pixels.

Here’s a quick guide to editing one corner in particular. Once you link these back together, changing the top left corner to 50 pixels will also add 50 pixels to the other 3 corners to make them all 100 pixels.

You can see we linked this and we are going to add 50 pixels.