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This article is about tools that are used to edit artwork in Harmony Essentials. If you would like to read about drawing tools in Harmony, see About Harmony Essential’s drawing tools.
Select tool
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| Description: Allows you to select one or many shapes and do overall edits to them such as scaling, moving and rotating. | |
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Can be used on: All vector artwork in Harmony. |
About the Select tool
When using the Select tool, it will create an orange envelope or box around the object, and you will be able to see the outline or centerline of each shape. After selecting the artwork, you can rotate, scale, or move it. If you want to edit specific points on the artwork, you should use the Contour Editor tool.
Contour Editor tool
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| Description: Allows you to select one or many points along a vector line or contour. This gives you detailed control over your editing. | |
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Can be used on: All vector artwork in Harmony. |
About the Contour Editor tool
After drawing a shape, you can use the Contour Editor to select and edit points to manipulate it. The appearance of these vector points and contours will appear differently depending on whether the line was created by a pencil or brush tool, and they will also behave differently when edited.
Below you can see how the Contour Editor manipulates each of these lines:
| Pencil lines | Brush lines |
Cutter tool
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| Description: Allows you to cut away sections of artwork so that it can be separated or deleted. | |
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Can be used on: All vector artwork in Harmony. |
About the Cutter tool
The Cutter tool can be used to cut away sections of artwork. This is especially helpful for artwork that is one shape or flattened. Selections can be deleted, cut and pasted, or moved, rotated and scaled. You can also use it to cut away overlapping sections of lines.
Below you can see how the Cutter tool manipulates artwork:
Centerline Editor tool
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| Description: Allows you to edit a brush stroke using a centerline instead of a contour. | |
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Can be used on: Harmony brush lines only. |
About the Centerline Editor tool
The Centerline Editor tool is made specifically for brush lines. This tool works similarly to the Contour Editor, except instead of editing the brush line with an envelope or contour, it allows you to edit the brush line with a spine, similar to how a pencil line is edited. This gives you more control over the overall shape of the line instead of just the outside shape.
Other editing tools
The following tools are also useful for editing artwork in Harmony.
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Eraser tool |
Description: Has the same settings and application as the Brush tool, but removes artwork instead of creating it. Can be used on: All vector artwork in Harmony. |
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Perspective tool |
Description: Allows you to edit artwork with points that help to create an illusion of perspective on the object. Can be used on: All vector artwork in Harmony. |
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Envelope tool |
Description: Allows you to edit artwork with points and curves in a mesh layout. This gives you the ability to manipulate artwork with customized areas of influence. Can be used on: All vector artwork in Harmony. |
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Edit Gradient/Texture tool |
Description: Allows you to change the orientation and scale of a gradient or texture in a filled area. Can be used on: Areas filled with gradients/textures created in Harmony. |
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Smooth Editor tool |
Description: Allows you to reduce the amount of points on a line or shape by smoothing it out. Can be used on: All vector artwork in Harmony. |
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