112 Place Shapes on the Drawing Area
Freehand drawing is perhaps the first thing most people want to try when they learn a new drawing program. Draw enables you to freeform draw, but on your freeform drawing you can also place all kinds of shapes and graphic images; you can mix it all up on a Draw drawing.
If you're new to Draw, the drawing tools may seem a little awkward at first. When you select a tool and draw with it, as soon as you finish the line or shape, the mouse cursor changes back to its regular pointing cursor, and to use the tool once again, you must reselect the tool. Therefore, if you need to draw several freeform objects, such as birds flying, it might seem as though you must keep selecting the freeform drawing tool each time you add to your drawing. Fortunately, although it may not be fully intuitive, there is a way to keep tools selected that you want to use multiple times, and you learn how to do that here.
1. | Select Freeform Line Tool Start Draw and go to work! It doesn't matter at this point what you draw if you're new to Draw; you need to get a feel of the basic steps necessary for drawing and placing objects on the drawing area. To start a new drawing, choose File, New, Drawing from the menu or click the 111. Draw from Scratch
117 About Manipulating Objects . Handles Green boxes that surround an object when that object is selected. Resize an object by dragging one of these handles. Edit points Also called data points . Small blue squares that surround an object when it's being edited; drag an edit point inward or outward to modify a shape or freeform line's contour.edit points . Click the object to select it, and then click the Points button on the Drawing toolbar. Edit points surround the object so that you can manipulate its contour. Drag an edit point in or out to reshape the contour of the line or shape at that location. See 117 About Manipulating Objects . 113 Draw Lines ), fill buttons you can use to fill the center of enclosed drawing areas with patterns and colors, and a Shadow button that adds a shadow effect to your object. Click the Shadow button now to add a shadow to your line so that you can see the effect. See 116 Fill an Object for more help with shadows.116 Fill an Object describes more about filling objects on your drawing area. |
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