User guide

148 Painting and Drawing
4. Select a foreground color, and any other characteristics for the QuickShape.
5. Drag out the shape on the image. It displays as an outline; hold down the
Ctrl key while drawing to constrain the aspect ratio. Once drawn, the shape
takes a Solid fill using the Color tab's foreground color.
To create a filled bitmap from your QuickShape instead, choose the
Fill Bitmaps button instead of the Shape Layers button.
Each QuickShape is adjustable, so you can experiment before committing to a
particular figure and edit it later—with innumerable possibilities!
If you switch to the Node Edit Tool, you can adjust the shape. The number of
displayed "edit" control handles varies according to the shape; for example, the
rectangle has just one control, the polygon has two, and the star has four.
As an example, dragging the side control handle on the middle Quick Pentagon
shape downwards will morph the shape to a hexagon, heptagon, octagon, and so
on. Dragging the top control handle to the right will rotate the shape in an
counter-clockwise direction.
To edit a QuickShape:
1. Click its layer or path name in the Layers or Paths tab, respectively, to select
it. If on a Shape layer, make sure the layer's path thumbnail is selected (it
has a white border; arrowed below) to allow the path to be edited with the
Node Edit Tool or Shape Edit Tool, i.e.