Technical data

54 Working with Paint and Text
The Tool Properties tab provides the
familiar Opacity setting for the Line tool.
You can also set the Weight (thickness) of
the drawn line, and turn Anti-aliasing on
or off. Anti-aliasing produces smooth
edges by making the selection’s edge
pixels semi-transparent. It’s great for
avoiding “jaggies” on diagonal lines.
q Go ahead and experiment a bit with the Line
tooltrying various weights and turning anti-
aliasing on and off.
Shapes in PhotoPlus are pre-designed, filled contours that work just
like the Adjustable Selection toolsyou can instantly add them to your
page, then adjust and vary them using control handles.
The Shape Tools flyout contains a wide variety of
commonly used shapes, including boxes, ovals,
arrows, polygons, and stars. Each shape has its own
built-in “intelligent” properties, which you can use
to customize the basic shape.
When you draw an adjustable shape, it displays as a
blue outline with one or more sliding handles which are used to control
shape properties. The number of handles varies according to the shape;
for example, the rectangle has just one control, the polygon has two,
and the star has four.
Hold down the Shift key while drawing a shape to constrain its aspect
ratio. To adjust a shape, simply drag one of its handles (the tool
changes to a “+” when it is above a handle).
When you’ve finished editing a shape, double-click inside the blue
outline to fix it and fill it with the foreground color as shown on the
Color tab.