"Is there a quick way to create a diamond shape?," a student asked in a recent training session. I answered, "Sure! I can think of a couple of ways off the top of my head. Draw a square by clicking and dragging with the Rectangle tool (M) while holding down the Shift key. Double-click on the Rotate tool, specify a rotation Angles of 45° and click OK and an ordinary square is transformed into a diamond instantly. If I want the diamond to be narrower than it is tall, I could switch to my Selection tool (V) and drag in on one of the side bounding box points. Another way to draw this narrower diamond shape is to draw an oval that is taller than it is wide, by clicking and dragging with the Ellipse tool (L). Switch to the Convert Anchor Point tool (Shift+C) and click on each of the four points in the oval. This converts all the smooth anchor points into corner points and the ellipse into gem of a diamond."
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