# Video Script — Day-09: Selection & Shape Tools

**Instructor:** Ali Akbar Shah
**Runtime target:** ~25–30 minutes of narration with screen demos
**Style:** Simple English, friendly, direct. Screen-demo cues in [brackets].

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## 1. INTRO (2 min)

[ON SCREEN: finished house icon from the demo]

"Welcome to Day 9. Yesterday you learned the CorelDRAW workspace. Today we
pick up the tools and draw. This little house was made from four basic
shapes — nothing more. By the end of today, you will build things like this
without thinking."

## 2. OBJECTIVES (1 min)

[ON SCREEN: goals list]

"Today: the Pick Tool — select, move, resize, rotate, skew. The shape tools —
rectangle, ellipse, polygon, star. The Shape Tool for editing corners and
curves. And the Order menu plus grouping, so overlapping shapes behave."

## 3. DEMO — PICK TOOL (8 min)

[ON SCREEN: rectangle on page, cursor demonstrates each action]

"I draw a rectangle with F6. Now the Pick Tool — the arrow at the top of the
toolbox. Click the rectangle: resize handles. Drag a corner while holding
Control: it scales evenly, no stretching. Hold Shift: it grows from the
center. Now click the selected rectangle one more time — see? Curved arrows.
Drag one and it rotates; the status bar shows the angle. The straight arrows
on the sides skew it — slant it. One tool, four jobs. This is the tool you
will touch a thousand times a day."

## 4. DEMO — SHAPES + SHAPE TOOL (7 min)

[ON SCREEN: drawing square, circle, hexagon, star]

"Rectangle tool, hold Control — perfect square. Ellipse tool, hold Control —
perfect circle. Polygon tool: I set 6 sides on the property bar — a hexagon;
3 sides — a triangle. Hold the polygon icon and I get the Star tool — five
points, and I control the sharpness on the property bar.

Now the Shape Tool, F10. I click the rectangle — corner nodes appear. I drag
one inward: all corners round together. Or I type an exact value on the
property bar for perfect corners. Click a circle with the Shape Tool, press
the Pie button on the property bar, drag the node — a pie slice. Same tool,
endless control."

## 5. EXAMPLE — HOUSE ICON (5 min)

[ON SCREEN: building the house step by step]

"Let's build the house. Square for the body — Control held. Triangle for the
roof — polygon tool, 3 sides. Small rectangle for the door, circle for the
window. The roof is behind the body? Right-click, Order, To Front. Marquee
select everything, Control G to group — now it's one object. Save. Four
shapes, one icon."

## 6. MISTAKES (3 min)

[ON SCREEN: quick bad/good comparisons]

"Common mistakes: stretching circles into ovals — hold Control. Losing an
object behind another — use Order, To Front, or find it in the Objects
docker. Forgetting Shift when selecting many — hold Shift to add. And
rounding corners by eye with nodes — use the property bar value instead."

## 7. PRACTICE + RECAP / HOMEWORK (2 min)

[ON SCREEN: homework slide]

"Practice: build the starburst badge from your exercise file. Assignment:
design six original icons for an imaginary app, 'Pocket Tools' — hammer,
bulb, cog, pencil, clock, star badge — shapes only, each one grouped. Export
a PNG preview too. Tomorrow, Day 10: the Bezier Tool — real drawing begins."