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4.14 EXPORTING AS A RASTER FILE .......................................................................................................................................................... 71
4.15 USING WINDOWS COPY/PASTE ......................................................................................................................................................... 72
Adobe Illustrator ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 72
Inkscape .................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 73
KNK Studio/ ACS Studio ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 73
5. WORKING WITH TEXT .......................................................................................................................................................................... 74

5.01 THE TEXT AND FONTS TAB ................................................................................................................................................................ 74
5.02 OPENING FONT FILES ....................................................................................................................................................................... 75
5.03 ADD TEXT GROUP ............................................................................................................................................................................ 75
Rotating Text ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 76
Splitting Text .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 77
5.04 CREATING A CONNECTED LETTER TITLE ............................................................................................................................................ 78
5.05 INCORPORATING DINGBAT SHAPES INTO A TITLE ................................................................................................................................ 79
5.06 WELDING TITLES IN IMAGINATIVE WAYS ............................................................................................................................................. 79
5.07 FITTING TEXT TO THE OUTSIDE OF A SHAPE ....................................................................................................................................... 80
Wrapping Text around A Circle ................................................................................................................................................................................. 80
Wrapping Text Half-way Around the Top and the Bottom of a Circle ....................................................................................................................... 81
5.08 FITTING TEXT TO PATHS ................................................................................................................................................................... 83
Closed Path in Bézier Warp ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 83
Open Path in Bézier Warp ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 84
5.09 CREATING AN OVERLAY TITLE AND WELDING TEXT TO FRAMES ........................................................................................................... 85
5.10 STENCILING LETTERS ....................................................................................................................................................................... 87
5.11 OPEN PATH FONTS (OPF) ................................................................................................................................................................ 88
6. TRACING ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 89
6.01 RASTER VERSUS VECTOR ................................................................................................................................................................. 89
6.02 FINDING EASY IMAGES TO TRACE ...................................................................................................................................................... 90
6.03 PIXEL TRACE .................................................................................................................................................................................... 90
6.03.1 Pixel Trace Method ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 92
6.03.2 Alpha Trace Method ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 94
6.03.3 Palette Trace .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 97
6.03.4 Color Trace ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 101
6.03.5 Color Scans Trace........................................................................................................................................................................................ 106
6.04 MANUAL TRACING .......................................................................................................................................................................... 114
Importing an Image for Manual Tracing .................................................................................................................................................................. 115
Manual Tracing Using the Bézier Curves and Straight Line (Pen Tool) ................................................................................................................. 116
Flip/Mirror and Weld to Complete Symmetrical Shapes ......................................................................................................................................... 119
7. EDITING ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 120
7.01 SEPARATING AND COMBINING SHAPES ............................................................................................................................................ 120
Split ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 120
Break ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 121
Join .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 121
Layer ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 122
Blackout ................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 123
7.02 SHAPE MAGIC ADVANCE PART 1: THE SIMPLIFY FUNCTIONS ............................................................................................................. 124
7.02.1 Auto Simplify Paths ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 124
7.02.2 Auto Simplify Path ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 124
7.02.3 Smooth & Simplify ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 124
7.03 SHAPE MAGIC ADVANCE PART 2: DETAILS ....................................................................................................................................... 125
View Path Detail ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 125
Nodes on Mat .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 126
7.04 SHAPE MAGIC ADVANCE PART 3: THE PATH FUNCTIONS .................................................................................................................. 126
Flatten Paths ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 126
Thin Paths ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 127
Fuse n’ Weld ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 128
Reverse Paths ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 128
7.05 SHAPE MAGIC ADVANCE PART 4: TILER ........................................................................................................................................... 129
7.06 NODE MODE TOOLBAR ................................................................................................................................................................... 131
7.07 EDIT THIS PROJECT NORMALLY (SELECT TOOL) ............................................................................................................................... 132
7.08 MEASURE SHAPE LENGTHS AND ANGLES (MEASURE TOOL) .............................................................................................................. 132
7.09 SLICE SHAPES AND LINES (KNIFE TOOL) .......................................................................................................................................... 134
7.10 ERASE SECTIONS OF PATHS (ERASER TOOL) ................................................................................................................................... 134

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