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Drawing Lines and Shapes 159

Adding arrowheads & tails
The InfoBar has two dropdown lists on the left which allow you to choose an arrow head
or tail style for each end of the selected line.

Arrow head
Arrow tail
Arrow head/tail size
Reverse path

The slider on the InfoBar allows you to change the size of the arrow head and tail on the
current selected line. Or you can enter a percentage value into the size text field to the
right of the slider.

Enter a value less than 100% to reduce the size of the arrowhead (and tail), or greater
than 100% to increase. Although the slider only takes the size value up to a maximum of
800%, you can enter percentage values larger than this into the size text field.
Reverse path

Press the REVERSE PATH button on the InfoBar to switch around the head and tail
of the selected line.

Shape Painter tool

This tool enables you to ‘paint’ onto an existing shape to enlarge it, add new areas or
adjust the shape or outline. It does this in a vector way, and is much more direct and
often easier way than using the vector SHAPE TOOL. You can adjust the size of the ‘nib’ as
well as its aspect ratio and rotation angle.

If you use one of the liquify plugins you can also choose from a range of effects to adjust
outlines of shapes, lines and rectangles.

To use the tool in standard PAINT mode, simply select the tool from the DRAWING TOOL
(on page 154) flyout menu. If a shape is already selected, or you click on a shape to
select it, then strokes on the page will adjust the outline of the selected shape. If there is
no shape selected, or you click on the background to clear the selection, then new
strokes will create new shapes.
If multiple shapes are selected the Painter tool will join them if the nib shape touches
them during the drag. The resulting joined shape has the attributes of the topmost shape.