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Xtreme tip: Change the page color
Drag a color blob (from the color bar along the bottom, the color gallery or the preview patches on the color editor) onto the page, but before you drop, hold the Ctrl key. If you drag the lower color blob from the color picker to the page this way, you can now interactively alter the color in the editor and the document page color is updated interactively.

Xtreme tip: Temporary Tool Selection
Switching tools is one of the most common and therefore time consuming operations. How often, for instance, are you working on a shape, then need to zoom in some more, before continuing to work. Or perhaps you're editing a shape using the Shape Editor tool and want to select a new shape to edit.

Three tools in particular offer a quick, temporary way of being selected, which then revert to the previous tool afterwards. The Selector tool, push and zoom tools can each be selected using their key shortcuts:

Selector tool: Alt+S or simply press space

Push tool: Alt+X

Zoom tool: Alt+Z

Once selected, if use the same shortcut again, these will revert back to the previous tool. Better still, and perhaps even less known, you can just hold the shortcut keys, perform the operation while holding the keys, and then release the keys, and it will revert back to the previous tool.

So now, say, you're editing the outline of a shape and you want to edit the outline of another shape. Instead of clicking the selector tool, clicking the new shape, then clicking the shape editor tool back again, you can just press and hold the space bar, click the new shape, then release the space bar - you're now back in the Shape Editor.

Illustrator or Photoshop users are used to the space bar being a shortcut to the push tool, but there are other (more OS standard) ways of doing that, and so we feel it's better to use space bar as a short-cut to the most commonly used tool - the Selector tool. Of course this doesn't work if you're in the Text tool. In that case use Alt+S.

What's more we deliberately designed it so these shortcuts are typically very close to the standard left hand, and thumb, position on the keyboard so very little movement is required to use these shortcuts.

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Complex Fills
Re-create a realistic flower petal with complex shading and texture, using a combination of graduated fills, transparency and fractal textures. See movie...
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