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142 Painting, Drawing, and Text

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.

Fill Bitmaps—creates a filled bitmap of the shape or straight

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

Curved and freehand pen lines cannot be drawn as filled bitmaps.

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