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 object’s 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 object’s 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.
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