Move: Change the horizontal and vertical position of the selected objects.
Rotate: Rotate the selected objects by a specified angle.
Scale: Scale the selected objects by a specified size or percentage.
Flip Horizontal (Mirror)
Flip Vertical
Auto Fit: Scales the selection to fit the mat size.
Arrange
Bring To Front: Moves the current selection to the top/front in the layering order.
Bring Forward: Moves the current selection up in the layering order.
Send Backward: Moves the current selection down in the layering order.
Send To Back: Moves the current selection to the bottom of the layering order.
Alignment: Automatically line up shapes.
Align to Page: Choose to align to the bounds of the page.
Align to Selection: Choose to align to the bounds of the current selection.
Align Left: Align to the left side of the Page or Selection.
Align Right: Align to the right side of the Page or Selection.
Align Top: Align to the top side of the Page or Selection.
Align Bottom: Align to the bottom side of the Page or Selection.
Align Centers: Align the objects to the center of the Page or Selection.
Align Horizontal Center: Align to the horizontal center of the Page or Selection.
Align Vertical Center: Align to the vertical center of the Page or Selection.
Distribute: Automatically adjust spacing between shapes.
Distribute to Page: Choose to distribute to the bounds of the page.
Distribute to Selection: Choose to distribute to the bounds of the current selection.
Distribute to Selection Below: Distributes space between shapes so that it fits within the bounds of the bottom layer.
Distribute Left: Left side of each shape are same distance apart.
Distribute Center Horizontally: Horizontal center of each shape are same distance apart.
Distribute Right: Right side of each shape are same distance apart.
Distribute Space Horizontally: Horizontal space between each shape is the same.
Distribute Top: Top side of each shape are same distance apart.
Distribute Center Vertically: Vertical center of each shape are same distance apart.
Distribute Bottom: Bottom side of each shape are same distance apart.
Distribute Space Vertically: Vertical space between each shape is same.
Group: Combines the selected objects into a group object, so that when you select the group and try to move, scale or rotate, it will modify everything in the group together. In the Layers panel, a group will be shown as a folder with the letter G on it.
Ungroup: Take the objects in a group and remove them from the group so that you can modify each object individually.
Break Apart: If an object has multiple outlines in the shape, you can break it apart where each outline will be placed on a separate layer.
Choose Break Apart and it will split the outer circle and the inner circle into separate layers.
You can now modify each part of the original shape separately.
Merge: The opposite of Break Apart, where it will take separate outlines and combine them into a single shape/layer.
Example shows the two separate outlines/layers combined back into a single shape/layer.
Clip Path
Set Clip Path: Top object will act as a clipping path where areas of the objects below the clipping path will be hidden. In example below, there is a Star shape placed over an image. If we select both the image and the star and apply the Clip Path, areas of the photo outside the star shape will now be hidden.
Release Clip Path: No clipping applied
Clip Mask - Open the Preferences window to set various settings for the software.
Set Mask: Similar to clip Path, except the color of the mask will affect the opacity of the objects that are clipped. Darker colors in the Mask will result in higher transparency. White mask will be the same as a Clip Path. In the example below, we have a darker star placed over an image. If we select both the star and image and apply Clip Mask, areas of the photo outside the shape will be hidden, but because the star shape is darker color, the image will also have an added transparency added.
Release Mask: No clipping applied
Duplicate: Make copies of the current selection by specifying the numbers of rows and columns.
Duplicate Rotated: Make copies of the current selection while rotating each copy.
Hide: Makes the current selection not visible on the mat. When an object is hidden, it will not be cut.
Show All: Makes all objects on the mat visible.
Lock: Makes the current selection locked so that it cannot be modified.
Unlock All: Unlocks all objects on the mat so they can be modified again.
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