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Using advanced parametric shapes

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Using advanced parametric shapes

In the previous movie, I showed using the Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, and Ellipse tools to draw mask shapes. However, you also have the more complex Polygon and Star tools, which have a lot more options to draw complex shapes with rounded corners and as such. Let's start with the Polygon tool. I'll click-and-drag. I don't like where that's centered. So I'll press the Spacebar and re- center it to where at least I get to see a little bit of shrubbery down here. If I hold the Shift key, it will auto-orient my polygon. If I release, I get to rotate my polygon, and again, you can use the cursor keys to change some parameters of this. The Up and Down arrows control how many sides are to the polygon, while the Right and Left keys control the rounding of the corners of the polygon. Note that you can go ahead and round to where this shape actually either becomes a circle and pushes out further or actually twist around on itself. So you can create a lot of very interesting shapes. Press…

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