Open your PhotoImpact Program

Go to File/Preferences/General/Guidelines and Grid and change your H spacing and V spacing to 40.

Change the colour for the lines to #1600DE this will allow you to see your rectangle lines better in "Path Edit" mode.

File/New/New Image/White Background, (I used 900 x 150, 200 ppi) size up to you.

Click on your path drawing tool, select the Rectangle shape and draw it out to 842 W X 40 H

If you would like a smaller Rick Rack Ribbon, just make the Width smaller, the height should not be altered as this is the same as the Grid spacing. You can make the height wider once you have finished all the steps.

View/Guidelines and Grid/Grid.

Line your rectangle shape up with the lines of the Grid.

Click on the "Add point" icon.

With your "add point" icon activated we are now going to add a node at the top and bottom of each intersection. At this point you may want to zoom in a bit more so that it is easier to see what you are doing.

Once you have all your nodes top and bottom, click on the "Pick Point" icon.

Go to View/Guidelines and Grid/Grid and switch the Grid off.

Touch your Rectangle shape so that the nodes are all visible now very gently click on your second top node.

Hold down Ctrl button and click on the bottom node of the second pair.

Both of your nodes are now selected and they will look like a red square with a smaller white square on top.

Still holding down the Ctrl button click on every 2nd set on nodes top and bottom.

When you have selected all the nodes, release the Ctrl button.

Now hover over one of the selected nodes.

When you see the white triangle with a double headed arrow on a black square. click on the node and pull either up or down...................

you will see all the selected nodes move in unison, like magic really!!

Click out of "Path Edit" Mode.

Click on the Libraries tab in your "Easy Palette" and drag your new shape to your My Shapes group, it will now be available to you through your " Path Drawing" tool Custom Shapes drop down list.

Straight Line Rick Rack

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