February 2015 Video Tutorial -- Creating a Casino Poster Part 1

[duganfry3]

I know this is an old video but I'm just learning. I'm at 4:49 where after making the blend, Gary ask to "Hold shift. Scale the control circle to converge the triangles. I duplicated the circle but when I hold shift to bring in the circle, the triangles do not converge. They stay the same. What am I doing wrong?

[Egg Bramhill]

The circles & triangles are a blend along a curve. With the blend selected, look at the status bar, bottom left of the Xara window. It will state one blend.
Now with the blend still selected, hold down the Ctrl key and select only the circle. The status bar will say 1 shape (inside)
Holding down the Shift key reduce the circles size using the control points.
The triangles will move towards the centre.