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Operating On The Mask Shapes
When you've drawn any shape on the mask, it's selected and acts pretty much like any normal line or
shape.
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Drawing additional shapes will just add to the mask.
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The status line will indicate whether selected objects are on the mask layer or not.
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Pressing Escape will clear any selection (so there are no selected objects).
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If you have multiple separate objects on the mask layer, you can click on the outline (on the
marching ants outline) to select any one particular shape. Or use the Page & Layer Gallery to
view and select separate objects on the mask layer.
You can use all the normal drawing tools on the selected shapes on the mask layer. You can copy, cut,
paste, delete, duplicate etc. You can use the Freehand and Shape Editor tool to adjust the mask shape
outline.
You can copy any shape from another normal visible layer onto the mask layer, or vice versa, using the
normal layer operations. To copy a shape from a normal layer, the easiest way to do this is to turn off
mask mode, select and copy the required objects, re-enable the mask layer and then Paste.
Deleting all objects from the mask simply requires a click anywhere on the pink area (selects all parts of
the mask) followed by pressing the Delete key.
Clicking through the holes or anywhere on the non-pink parts of a drawing will select the objects under
the mask.
Moving the mask objects
Dragging anywhere on the pink mask will move all shapes on the mask layer.
Where you have multiple shapes selected on the mask layer and want to operate on one shape only,
clear the selection (press Esc) and then click on the edge of or inside the specific shape you want to
select.
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