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It's easy to resize and reshape it all the way you want. For
example, let's take this bird from our "Wild
Animals" clipart set: 
Click
on it once in order to select the vector object. 
Drag
one of the black rectangles and move it to any direction. See the bird reshaping
without any loss in quality. 
Copy
the object several times (CTRL + D) and play some with it. 
Again
- we used Corel Draw for this but you can do the same with Adobe Illustrator
or any other quality design software. Now click on the object
twice and try to rotate and skew the object. It's easy as 1-2-3.  Now
we'll move on to more powerful operations. Notice "Shape Tool", the
second tool from the top.

It allows you to edit the vector art. Click on bird, then click on the tool (or
press F10). Notice the nodes encircled with red. They allow
you to do much more complicated editing than a simple reshaping or skewing is. 
Now
drag the node at the end of the beak and move it some downwards. Now the beak
is longer but the general shape of the bird remains the same. 
The
lines in between the nodes are editable too. Play some with them, then doubleclick
a line at any spot. A new node will appear. We doubleclicked
the top line: 
Add
some more nodes and try to draw the wings. Now it looks more like a hawk attacking
its prey. 
Somewhat
fat for a hawk :-) but this was an exercise anyway. Now let's
add some color to our vector drawings... Prev:
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