Chapter 4. Select, Move, and Size

In Chapter 3 you learned how to draw simple shapes such as squares and circles. Now it's time to learn how to select, move, copy, clone, and resize them. The tool you will use to do all this is one you've already used, the Pick Tool (Figure 1).

The Pick Tool.

Figure 1. The Pick Tool.

The Pick Tool is used to select objects and also manipulate an object's handles. Handles are the large black squares that appear in a rectangular formation around an object when it is selected by the Pick Tool (Figure 2). They are used to change the overall shape of an object.

Figure 2. Handles appear around an object when it is selected with the Pick ...

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