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The Graphics part of GP3 is based on vector objects and shapes put together. I found this part to be extremely easy to use and fun to play with. GP3 is not of course, a extremely powerful/advanced vector package, but it is enough for the day to day usage that a non-artist would need to use. There are plenty of shapes to choose from (however, flow charting shapes I found to be missing and I think that Gobe could strike a winner there if they add such shapes to their application), a line tool, reshape, bezier, freehand and polygon tools. I found the reshape tool very cool and fast. Too bad that you cannot save your own shapes and store them in a library though (Editor's note: Gobe's Tom Hoke wrote in to tell us that such a feature already exists! Thanks Tom!), but at least copy/paste works well between Productive and vector-aware editors like PaintShopPro7. As you can see from the screenshot, a number of options are available when right clicking in a selected shape, options very familiar to people who have used Illustrator, FreeHand, CorelDraw or Xara. You can Group and UnGroup shapes, so they behave as a single shape, Smooth edges, you can Tranform them (reshape, rotate, scale), align them to front or back, select the transparency level and also use the powerful Alignment to snap shapes into Grid or among them, as seen in the screenshot.

No filters or special effects can be used with the Graphics package, but with the addition of some flow chart shapes, it is more than perfect for an office/home use.

1. "General"
2. "Word Processing"
3. "Spreadsheet"
4. "Graphics"
5. "Image Processing"
6. "Presentation"
7. "Conclusion"