Ellipses and Circles Tool

The Ellipses tool is a geometrical tool to construct circles or ellipses. The line shape is put directly on the canvas and can’t be modified afterwards (compare to Inking tool). There are different ways to choose the Ellipses tool:

• Click on the ellipses icon in the Tool bar
• Edit → Ellipses and Circles
• or press O

Control of the ellipses

• Drawing ellipse without modifier keys:

• Holding down Ctrl constrains the aspect ratio (how stretched-out it looks). The ellipse snaps to a perfect circle.

• Holding down Shift allows you to change the angle of an ellipse.

• When you hold down Ctrl+Shift together, the angle is constrained instead.