How do I stretch a photo? Driving me crazy

[haakoo]

And even with this option unselected it is acting up,one keeps selected the fill handles instead of the resize handles

[handrawn]

There is a way to turn all this stretching confusion off. Right click on the Lock Aspect Ratio (the lock icon) and uncheck [ ] Smart Transform.

You can always turn it back on.

Very old time user that I am, I prefer this feature OFF.

thanks for that Gary

[browj2]

For stretching, the message at the bottom of the screen for the side and top handles still says, "Drag to stretch/squash the selected objects." This should be, "Alt+drag to stretch..." should it not? The "Drag to stretch.." should be "Drag to crop..." Also, for stretching/squashing, Alt+shift+drag squashes stretches both sides (or top and bottom) together.

Still some work to do for the on-screen hints and the documentation. The Help file (.chm) was updated in March, mine has a date of 2018-03-10, and it does not reflect the previous or current situation for "Stretching and squashing objects." I noticed that Table Smartshape has been added, so Xara did some, but not all of the changes and new features.

[maxtrac]

"The Selector Tool must be in scale mode (the selection bounds handles are squares)." And yes, ALt+drag to stretch...

It took me forever but after 6 months I'm finally at ease... Thank you all...