Photo flip

[mentorman]

Hi Guys and Gals, been away for some time in annoying you with what are usually silly nigley problems. My previous problem of failure of Xara was all down to my computer performance and thanks to those who pointed it out especially Egg.

Now with windows 10 64 bit and 8Gb ram all of my previous problems have faded away.

To date I am having trouble with the treatment of pictures opened in Xara with the handles in that I cannot seem to use the flip facility in Xara to act with a photo whereas before (handles)you could. Am I missing something (if past history is anything to go by-yes)?

Ken

[Acorn]

Hi Guys and Gals, been away for some time in annoying you with what are usually silly nigley problems. My previous problem of failure of Xara was all down to my computer performance and thanks to those who pointed it out especially Egg.
Now with windows 10 64 bit and 8Gb ram all of my previous problems have faded away.
To date I am having trouble with the treatment of pictures opened in Xara with the handles in that I cannot seem to use the flip facility in Xara to act with a photo whereas before (handles)you could. Am I missing something (if past history is anything to go by-yes)?
Ken

Ken, check if you have Smart transform enabled. You cannot flip with dragging the black controls. The Flip horizontally / Flip vertically buttons should still work.

You can override "Smart Transform" by holding down the Alt key before any other action.

@Xara - Smart Transform is not needed for images so remove it. If you want Smart Transform actions, the switch to the Photo Tool provides the Smart Transform features.

Acorn

[mentorman]

Ken, check if you have Smart transform enabled. You cannot flip with dragging the black controls. The Flip horizontally / Flip vertically buttons should still work.

You can override "Smart Transform" by holding down the Alt key before any other action.

@Xara - Smart Transform is not needed for images so remove it. If you want Smart Transform actions, the switch to the Photo Tool provides the Smart Transform features.

Acorn

Hi Acorn see you are on the rescue ball as usual. Thanks. Only problem being I have no idea about smart transform and a search around my xara reveals nothing relating. Obviously I am looking in the wrong place or missed the relevant menu entry so must throw myself on your mercy for some more basic info, Oh mighty one! All of my images open with the handles to rotate and the size control in bottom right of picture. The old black handles seem to have disappeared. Help me in my stupidity please.

ken

[mentorman]

Hi Acorn, did a google search and found it. It is all under the aspect ratio icon which switches it on or off. Thanks for your time. Pity Xara help isn't as good as google search

Ken

[Rob-Xar]

Glad you managed to find the option! we do have an article here on this, could improve it I guess:

https://help.xara.com/article/207-ho...-xara-designer

@acorn sigh Smart transform has nothing to do with image flipping. I know you hate it but you can't blame it for everything.

[Acorn]

@acorn sigh Smart transform has nothing to do with image flipping. I know you hate it but you can't blame it for everything.

Rob, sigh back.

Image flipping can be done two ways. (1) With the Flip icons that I mentioned. (2) With the central black control points, drag any beyond the opposite one and the image flips. With Smart Transform selected, it most certainly doesn't. If you hold down the Alt key with ST on, it flips.

Sigh.
Acorn