PhotoPlus X6 User Guide - Serif

Painting, Drawing, and Text 145
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.
To create a filled bitmap from your QuickShape instead, choose
the Fill Bitmaps button instead of the Shape Layers button. Filled
bitmap QuickShapes can only be created using the shape's default
settings, and once created, cannot be adjusted using the Node Edit
Tool.
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.
Using the middle Quick Pentagon shape as an example:
• Dragging the top control handle to the right will morph the shape to a
hexagon, heptagon, octagon, and so on.
• Dragging the side control handle downwards will rotate the shape
anti-clockwise.