Editing Shapes

For a human being to change can take years of study, education, or travel. Or, we might undertake more materialistic types of change, such as going under a plastic surgeon’s knife.

Shapes, on the other hand, have it easy. If you were a shape, you could change and grow practically at will. In some cases, shapes can morph into different forms just by moving their yellow diamond reshape tool. Most shapes can use the Change Shape tool to become different shapes, and all shapes can use the new Convert To Freeform tool to become anything they want to be.

Okay, so shapes don’t have it quite that easy. They need a human being with a mouse pointer to change their characteristics. But, while your shapes aren’t self actualized, they do make ...

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