Working with Smart Shapes

Smart Shapes can be used to decorate your document or for other purposes.
To add a shape, open the Smart Shapes tab on the Clipart panel and drag it to your card or click on it. A shape can be also added by selecting its name in the menu: Insert > Smart Shape.

Most shapes behave like ordinary images. Operations common for different objects are described in Basic Operations on Objects.

In Inspector you can change attributes of the selected shape. The main difference between shapes and images: shapes are vector objects, so that you have more control on them.
Each shape has Border Line and Filling as attributes. You can find them on Fill & Shadow tab. You can also apply a shadow to a smart shape, change its transparency and so on.

Special Attributes

For some shapes the Curve and Side Count options (from the Geometry tab of Inspector) can be adjusted.

For example, the 5-point Star can change number of rays by means of the Side Count control and the angle of rays by means of the Curve control.

In addition to Smart Shapes, the program has a collection of Basic Shapes: circles, rectangles, arrows and other. They are PDF vector images (that is, they don't have the special attributes of smart shapes). To find them, open the Clipart Collection tab of the Clipart panel and select Basic Shapes in the pop-up menu.