Epson Photo Plus - PhotoPlus Color Photo Scanner User's Guide download pdf (Page 153)

Painting, Drawing, and Text 147

Creating and editing lines

Lines can be drawn by using dedicated tools from the Tools toolbar's Line Tools

flyout.

The

Line Tool

produces an anti-aliased straight line in PhotoPlus,

which is just a very thin shape. The line can be of varying Weight

(thickness) and can be constrained to 15-degree increments, by

holding down the Shift key as you drag.

The

Freehand Pen Tool

, as its name implies, lets you draw a squiggly

line made up of consecutive line segments and nodes (each new

segment starting from another’s end node), which can be attached

back to itself to create a closed shape. Use the Smoothness setting on

the context toolbar to even out ragged contours automatically.

The Pen Tool can produce complex combination curves (and shapes)

in a highly controlled way.

Each tool's supporting context toolbar lets you create the line on

a shape layer or as a path. The Line Tool can also be used to create a filled

bitmap directly. Additionally, combination buttons let you add the line to its

own layer (or path), and can also be used to control how the new line interacts

with existing shapes on the layer.

Besides being useful with QuickShapes, the Node Edit and Shape Edit tools

really come into their own when editing lines.

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