Direct Edit Lasso tool You can quickly edit any path point of an
object by enclosing it with this tool. This feature places the object or
objects into Edit Mode and highlights the edit points that fall inside
the selection area drawn by the Direct Edit Lasso Tool. Likewise,
you may also draw a line through an object to allow editing of a path
point.
To select one or multiple objects: With the Selection tool,
click an object. To select multiple objects, Shift-click each object you
want to select. For Windows only, you can also hold down the right
mouse button and click multiple objects to select them.
With the Selection tool, you can drag a selection box around objects
to select them. Canvas selects all objects inside the selection box.
Editing objects
All types of objects in Canvas can be easily modified. In general, you
place an object in edit mode when you want to modify it.
Edit mode lets you use various features to edit each type of object.
For example, when a text object is in edit mode, you can use word-
processing features to select, cut, copy, paste, and edit text. When a
vector object is in edit mode, you can modify anchor points and seg-
ments to reshape its path. When a paint object is in edit mode, you
can use painting tools and commands to modify the image it contains.
Some other objects, including spirals, EasyShapes, objects that have
transparency masks, and SpriteEffects, have special editing modes
(besides their standard edit modes). For example, if you place a vec-
tor object in edit mode, you can edit the objects path. If the object
also has a transparency mask, you can edit its path in path edit mode,
or use the Sprite tool to edit its transparency mask in mask edit mode.
To place objects in edit mode
Do one of the following:
Select an object and choose Object > Edit > Object to place
it in object edit mode. To edit an objects transparency
mask, choose Object > Edit > Transparency.
Double-click the object.
Point to a selected object, open the context menu and
choose Edit. If the object has a transparency mask, choose
Edit > Object to edit the object, or choose Edit > Transpar-
ency to edit the mask.