try holding down the alt key as you drag - does that work ?
xara did this because they consider the majority of their users use photgraphs which they do not want distorted and would rather have cropped - that is my understanding anyway
try holding down the alt key as you drag - does that work ?
xara did this because they consider the majority of their users use photgraphs which they do not want distorted and would rather have cropped - that is my understanding anyway
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Another way is to turn of Smart Transform. Right click over the Lock Aspect Ratio icon (padlock) and untick Smart Transform. Best doing this prior to saving your templates.
Egg
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xara did this because they consider the majority of their users use photgraphs which they do not want distorted and would rather have cropped - that is my understanding anyway[/QUOTE]
I've posted about this before. I understand there are workarounds, my problem is that I always forget what the best approach is and end up having to try holding down alt or unclicking smart transformation,or holding down other keys and clicking or unclicking other settings and these work SOMETIMES but not always. My problem is that I never remember what to hold/click, I'm never sure what to unclick or hold down and these solutions don't always work for me so I end up having to spend time trying different solutions and being frustrating when it seems to me that the old procedures worked every time and were a ton more intuitive. Before, When I wanted to crop an image I simply draw a rectangle to the desired size and slice it from the original image, that seems to be an easy approach that requires no more clicks than what Xara now recommends. I usually don't want my images distorted but a little change in the format doesn't present a problem BUT essentially deleting part of my image isn't acceptable for my work. I just think the old way was better and easier.
the alt key is not a workaroud - it is a new way of doing it
I would have preferred it to stay the old way too, but it has changed
I sometimes use an old version to get round stuff like that
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That's why I said untick the Smart Transform and save it to your templates. That way you never have to remember anything at all
Egg
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if he uses templates
[I don't]
ignore that I mis-read - you mean default template sorry
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Spot on HD.
Egg
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I tried unclicking the Smart Transformation a while ago and saving as a template but it didn't work, HOWEVER, I tried it again and now it seems to have saved the change in my default template. However the change occurred, thank you!
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