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This type of interaction does not occur with objects created in object-drawing mode or
when you’re working with grouped objects. If you select something with the Selection tool and
see a bounding box instead of the crosshatch pattern, underlying objects will not be affected.
You can prevent this type of destructive editing by grouping the components of the
shape. Simply drag a selection around the entire object and choose Modify>Group. When a
standard object is grouped, you see only the group bounding box when you select the object
on the Stage. (The bounding box marks the outermost boundaries of the shape.)

Bounding box Note:
The color of an object’s
After grouping the fill and stroke,
you can’t select the individual bounding box is defined
components. The bounding box based on the Highlight
indicates the boundary of the group. Color options in the
General preferences.
Even when merge-drawing shapes are grouped, you can access the individual pixel
components by double-clicking them on the Stage. This opens a secondary Stage — called
Edit mode — where you can access and edit the individual components. The Edit bar above
the Stage shows that you are no longer on the main Stage (Scene 1), but editing a group.
Edit bar

Double-clicking a group enters
Edit mode for that group, where
you can access the individual
components of the group.

Of course, merge-drawing shapes have drawbacks as well; you could easily move or
change an object that you don’t want to change — such as dragging a fill away from its
stroke and not realizing it until 15 steps later when it’s too late to easily undo the error.
To solve this problem, you can draw in object-drawing mode by toggling on the switch
at the bottom of the Tools panel. When you create a shape or line in object-drawing mode,
it automatically displays the bounding box as soon as you create it, and you can’t select the
fill and stroke independently — at least not on the main Stage.

For a shape created in For a shape created in object-
merge-drawing mode, you drawing mode, you can use the
can use the Selection tool to Selection tool to reveal the
independently select the shape’s bounding box. You
shape’s fill and stroke. can’t independently select the
object’s fill or stroke.

If you want to access the individual components of an object created in object-drawing
mode, simply double-click the object. Double-clicking activates Edit mode; the Edit bar
shows that you are “inside” (editing) a drawing object.

In Edit mode, you can
access the individual
drawing shapes that make
up an object created in
object-drawing mode.

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