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Even though you can create all kinds of shapes in Painter, vector artwork, pixel artwork, there's times when there's a shape that's a little complicated such as a spiral or a key or a heart that may take a little bit more time then you're willing to spend. Fortunately Painter has something for you. If we go under the window menu we can choose show, selection, portfolio, in this palette here we have all kinds of shapes, as I mentioned spirals and stars, keys, all kinds of cool stuff, medical symbols or whatever that is. And what we can do is we can drag these right to the canvas, let's go ahead and try it out right now. I'll grab thisword balloon, thought bubble and drag it right here to the canvas. I can go ahead and change the color, double click on the color here and I'll choose something like a white, click OK and with my paint bucket tool I can fill that in. And when I deselect it, I have a thought bubble. I can also grab anything else, like a heart, and once again I can change the color, grab my paint bucket tool, and fill it in. Another nice thing about this selection portfolio is I can draw my own shapes and place it within this portfolio. So let's go ahead and give that a shot, I'm gonna grab my pen tool and I'm going to just draw a burst, something you might see on a box like pizza or something like that to say buy the pizza and get something free. So we have a burst here, now that I have this burst drawn, I'm gonna to my shapes menu and I'm gonna convert this, into a selection. Then, I'm going to grab my selection tools here and move it right on into the selection portfolio and I'm gonna let go anywhere. A dialog box will appear asking me what I want to call this shape and I'll call it burst. click OK and where is the burst? Well if we scroll on down to the bottom of this list here there it is. And if I hold my mouse down long enough, I see that it is actually called burst. Let's also go to our list view and scroll on down and we actually see the name of the shape right there. So I can drag this out, at anytime I want and I have my own custom shape that I can color and edit in any way that I feel. Now what if you don't want this anymore? First of all let me get rid of all this stuff here. What if I don't want any of these things on my um, stage or rather the canvas, all I have to do is go to the options choose selection mover and now find the name of the object such as burst and click delete. And now it is removed, once I hit quit that shape no longer appears in the palette so you can add as many shapes as you want to something that you might use on occasion so you can use this at a library for elements that you might use in desktop publishing or maybe your own signature that you somehow create and place into the portfolio that you can drag out your own symbol so you can sign your artwork with your own custom little shape at the end of your painting so people always recognize this and say hey that's one of those paintings by so and so. Just an idea.