When I load a piece of clip art and try to squish or stretch it horizontally or vertically it cuts it off instead of compressing it. Is this something in the settings that needs to be changed?
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Any and all help appreciated.
Bob
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When I load a piece of clip art and try to squish or stretch it horizontally or vertically it cuts it off instead of compressing it. Is this something in the settings that needs to be changed?
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Any and all help appreciated.
Bob
make sure you have 15.1update
right clickk on padlock (lock aspect ratio) in select tool and untick smart transform
Tried that but unfortunately didn't help. Current on on updates.
Bob
I don't think it works with the blue handles - there was talk of an alt modifier, but since I use only the old handles that you get when you click on the show selection bounds handles button, I'm not sure if it works any other way...
ok looks like the alt modifer will do the job without unticking smart transform, but again only in the selector tool
its a pigs ear.. if you need to do it with the blue handles though, because it appears it won't
That was the answer I was looking for.
Thanks so much.
Bob
glad to hear :)
it looks like xara have deliberately made you leave the photo tool before you can, what they call 'distort', a bitmap