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Using special vector shapes

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Using special vector shapes

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- [Instructor] So, in a previous video I talked a little bit about special shapes, but I want to go in to a little bit more detail about how you could use the special shapes to create original shapes. Now, Affinity Designer comes with a bunch of special shapes. So, before, I remember telling you how to access these special shapes by clicking on the special shape icon, right here in the corner, and then you can scroll down and choose any one of these special shapes. Now, I'm not going to draw every one out for you, but I do have a file with them all set up here. So, these are some common special shapes that you may want to create and they're actually already set up in a way that you can actually manipulate these, and make them however you need to. So, as you can see, I'm using the move tool to select the special shapes, but what you'll notice, there isn't a way for you to manipulate the special shapes. You have to engage the special shapes tool by clicking on the tool, and you'll…

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