User guide

144 Painting, Drawing, and Text
Creating and editing QuickShapes
QuickShapes in PhotoPlus are pre-designed contours that let you instantly add
all kinds of shapes to your image, then adjust and vary them using control
handles—for innumerable possibilities!
The QuickShape Tools flyout lets you choose
from a wide variety of commonly used shapes,
including boxes, ovals, arrows, polygons, stars, and
more. Each shape has its own built-in "intelligent"
properties, which you can use to customize the
basic shape.
QuickShapes can also be drawn as paths as
described elsewhere in Using paths (see PhotoPlus
Help).
To create a QuickShape :
1. Click the
QuickShapes flyout on the Tools Toolbar and select a
shape from the flyout menu. (To choose the most recently used shape, just
click the toolbar button directly.)
2. Ensure the
Shape Layers button is selected on the context toolbar.
3. If creating the shape on a new layer, make sure the
New button on the
context toolbar is selected. If creating multiple shapes on the same layer,
select one of the other combination buttons on the context toolbar to
specify how the multiple shapes will interact (see p. 143).
4. For shapes on a new layer only, select a foreground color for the
QuickShape. Multiple shapes on the layer will adopt the layer's current
color.