The Circle, Ellipse, and Arc tools

Let’s make some circles, ellipses (elongated circles), and arcs. For briefness, we’ll just refer to this tool as the Circle tool, even though we know from the title that we can make other shapes with it too.

We’ll approach making circles the same way we did making rectangles. Click and drag one corner out until your shape is sized to your satisfaction. If you want to drag a circle out from the center instead of the corner, simply hold the Shift key, and the circle you create will be dragged out from the center. Additionally, hold the Ctrl key (so, Shift + Ctrl) and you’ll get a perfect circle too, as shown in Figure 3.5:

Figure 3.5 – To resize or create perfect circles, hold Ctrl, or Ctrl + Shift to resize from the center

Similar to the rectangle, there are some special properties and options we can play with in the Tool control bar (Figure 3.6):

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