The Set in Circle item is the most fun, I think, and that's what I used to create the purple shape at the top. Here's how I chose to distort the objects. Your results will vary.Īnd here's the last of the three icons, Distort. Here are the three original shapes, just showing what I happened to do with them. It doesn't show here but your mouse pointer will look like a little crown when you move it over a corner. Here's what it looks like when you start fiddling with a shape. Next, let's look at the Set to Circle (slightly different) icon. Here's the effect of some random distortion of the three original shapes. When I move my mouse over the shape and drag a corner, I get something like this. I select the blue shape then click the Set in Circle tool. I'll show the effects of this tool first. Here are the perfectly innocent shapes I'll work with, but you can use any polygon shape include the smiley face shown at the top. So let's take a look at what happens to perfectly innocent shapes when you use the distortion and set-in-circle tools. You'll see a message like this click Yes. Select it, then click on the icon you want. The far right tool on the upper row and the first two on the lower row are the fun ones. You have the tools to do this with the Mode toolbar. Make a shape vaguely like a Hershey's kiss, or just make something totally unusual. However, sometimes you just need to create your own shapes. In the 2.0 release I need to do it less because of all the great prefab shapes.

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