: Deleting part of a pre-made shape in Pixelmator Is it possible to delete part of one of Pixelmator's premade shapes? I tried cropping part of the shape, but that just creates a new window

@Annie732

I should add another more valuable solution to the creation of the U shape as well as any other shape you want to create.

Every shape is actually a surface surrounded by stroke. My previous solution was based on tricking the "stroke" instead of creating full value shape.

If any shape is an outline, thus the solution is to create an outline and work with it as with usual shape:

Instead of creating a stroke-based shape, we create an outline-based shape by pen tool (similar as I described previously) -



Next, the "rounding" is straightforward via creation anchor points and deletion of redundant -



Final shape outline - fully editable, can have a stroke and can be operated as usual shape -

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@Sent7350415

Ilan is spot on.

If you are still finding it difficult, we created a tutorial to show you how to create and edit Pixelmator shapes, which might come in handy. www.pixelmatortemplates.com/pixelmator-tip-22-how-to-create-and-edit-shapes-the-basics/
PN.

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@Kaufman565

The first simple option: Right Click->Convert to Pixels and work as usual (selections and manipulation).

The second option:

Select the shape, evoke right click menu as on the picture, and choose Make Editable:


Next, you delete the part you want (select 1 anchor point and press delete - the anchor point and its surrounding points will be deleted if you press the delete button repeatedly):



UPDATE: how to create the "arc" in question.

This is my way to create your shape, probably there are others.


Choose pen tool and make a 4-clicks shape as on the picture:
to leave the shape "open" you click escape after 4th click.





Create 4 additional anchor points by double clicking on the path -





Choose 2 lower angle anchor points and press Delete -





Select the shape and Open the Shapes panel -> click on the options button


the button is on the right lower corner.


Choose Add Shape -



You have this shape available -


Now, work with this shape us usual, but set the fill to NONE:

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