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Painting and Drawing 145

Drawing and editing lines and shapes

For drawing and editing lines and shapes, the Tools toolbar includes the

following drawing tool flyouts:

The QuickShape Tools flyout featuring an assortment of tools for

creating rectangles, ellipses, polygons, and other shapes.

The

Line Tools

flyout features straight lines, plus freehand pen and

curved pen lines.

Overview

Each of the drawing tools has its own creation and editing rules, as detailed

below. Before continuing, let's cover some things that all shape objects have in

common:

Shapes have outlines known as paths. In a nutshell, shapes as discussed

here are filled lines (i.e., they’re closed, with color inside). Later, we’ll cover

unfilled lines (paths) separately, and consider their special properties. The

various drawing tools are all path-drawing tools, applicable to both the

filled and unfilled kind of line.

Unlike painted regions you create on raster (bitmap) layers, both

QuickShapes and lines are vector objects that occupy special shape layers,

marked with an symbol on the Layers tab. Each shape layer includes a

path thumbnail representing the shape(s) on that layer.

A QuickShape or straight line can be drawn directly as a shape layer, path

or as a filled bitmap. The Context toolbar hosts buttons which allow you to

decide how your lines and shapes are to be drawn, i.e.

Shape Layer

—create your QuickShape or line on a new shape

layer or add to an existing shape layer.

Paths—

add your shape or line directly as a path rather than as

a new/existing shape layer. (See Using paths on p. 154).

Fill Bitmaps

—creates a filled bitmap of the shape or straight

line on a raster layer (e.g., the Background layer).

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