That was very helpful. What I found was that using Q (select shape) is required for the O-O to appear. I have always been selecting the layer, then picking the shape from the drop down on the style box. I can get my fill and set the color that way, but the gradient never worked right, and no O-O ap...

This guy's video helped me. It shows the circle-line-circle, which he calls "handles." You see them at 1 minute, 50 seconds.

MehdiZangenehBar wrote: ↑Tue Aug 20, 2024 11:24 am Thank You!
I don't know why my video is not embeded in the forum?!

Nice! Thanks for posting.

By the way, your video is embedded.

Oh, one more thing. If you make an awesome gradient, you can re-use it in multiple shapes. Select the shape with the awesome gradient, then click Copy , located near the bottom of the Style window. This copies everything about the shape's style. Then select the other shape, the one without a gradien...

See? It's tricky. After you select a shape and add the gradient effect (in the Style window), the circle-line-circle thing appears on top of the shape, in the workspace . One circle is hollow, one solid. Drag the hollow circle and the gradient within the shape should start changing. Move the solid c...

The trickiest thing, aside from all the masking rules, is learning the circle-line-circle thing that appears in the gradient. Use it by dragging one of the circles, and the other circle moves the whole thing. It modifies the size of the gradient and rotates it.

That thing boggled my mind for a while.

Ah, thanks for explaining. I figured that must be what you were talking about, but wasn't positive.

Thanks for explaining how you made the metal look so good. I know the body parts can use more shading work, but so far I haven't learned a way that I can make work. - Wes I mostly shade in a basic way, rarely anything fancy. But if I wanted to do some fancy shading, I would start with a shadow shape...

This makes me wonder if a soft edge brush is applied, would Liquid Shapes then recognize a soft edge? This might be a way to fake a blurry edge with Liquid Shapes. I haven't tried it, but if you get to it before I do, let me know how it works. It's probably not the same as the effect you're going f...

I like Liquid Shapes. It's great. However. . .presently a higher-level shape using Soft Edge on the fill and clipped via Liquid Shape will extend it's blurred pixels outside the bottom shape. It would be awesome if Liquid Shapes was modified in a future update so that Soft Edge when applied to a hig...

Thanks. This was the first Liquid Shapes limitation that I'd encountered, so I wanted to be sure that masking was the way to go in this situation.

Nice! I like how you took a complex car replete with details and turned it into a cartoon car that nonetheless maintains its prominent shapes.

I also like how you made the metal shiny.

I often use Liquid Shapes/Clip to add shadows to a bottom shape. The shadows are no stroke, Soft Edge on the fill. It's quick and simple. Unfortunately, the blurred edge of the shadow actually extends outside the border of the bottom shape. Most of the time it's not noticeable, but occasionally it l...

You're welcome!

In Moho, on a Mac, to paste from the clipboard, do this: Right click on the selected text > choose "paste" from the pop-up menu. For example, when saving a Moho file for the first time, in the SAVE AS window you will see "Untitled"; this text will be already be selected . Right-c...