User Manual

138 Painting and Drawing
Overview
Each of the drawing tools has its own creation and editing rules, as detailed
below. Before continuing, let's cover some things that all shape objects have in
common:
• Shapes have outlines known as paths. In a nutshell, shapes as
discussed here are filled lines (i.e., they’re closed, with color inside).
The various drawing tools are all path-drawing tools, applicable to
both the filled and unfilled kind of line.
• Unlike painted regions you create on raster (bitmap) layers,, both
QuickShapes and lines are vector objects that occupy special shape
layers, marked with an symbol on the Layers tab. Each shape layer
includes a path thumbnail representing the shape(s) on that layer.
• A QuickShape or straight line can be drawn directly as a shape layer
or as a filled bitmap. The Context toolbar hosts buttons which allow
you to decide how your lines and shapes are to be drawn, i.e.
Shape Layer—create your Qu
ickShape or line on a new shape
layer or add to an existing shape layer.
Fill Bitmaps—creates a filled bitmap of the shape or straight
line on a raster layer (e.g., the Background layer).
Curved and freehand pen lines cannot be drawn as filled bitmaps.