That’s because (not meaning to rain on someone else’s parade…) the example shown poorly demonstrates what the Reshape Tool does.

Using the Reshape Tool as shown is almost equivalent to simply scaling the path horizontally.

To understand the difference between the Reshape Tool and ordinary scaling, continue to push the selected endpoint horizontally. You’ll see that the path becomes a loop, not just a more horizontally-compressed ess curve.

For a much clearer example of what the Reshape Tool is all about, do not start with a path in which the anchorPoints are already arranged sequentially along the path in the direction of the move.

For example:

1. Spiral Tool: Draw a spiral. Leave it selected.

2. Reshape Tool: Drag the outermost endpoint of the spiral horizontally away from the coil center.

You will see that the coils of the spiral stretch out, as if you are stretching a spring. (In fact, drawing springs is something the Reshape Tool is quite useful for.)

The coil example shows that the Reshape Tool does something radically different from anything that can be done with ordinary scale transformations.

Using the Scale Tool or other scaling moves affects selected anchorpoints and handles by amounts which increase with their straight-line distance from the center of transformation.

Using the Reshape tool affects selected anchorPoints and handles by amounts which decrease with their order-distance *along the path* from the anchorPoint(s) being moved.

> It’s feeling easy with illustrator compare to corel draw

This feature is very similar to CorelDraw’s Elastic Mode for the Shape Tool.

JET

It’s called Marker Felt.

~Bitt

Thanks so much!