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Author I'm doing something wrong
iehsmith

2004-02-21, 4:28 am

trying to use a perspective distortion. I'm using Illy 9 on
Mac OS 8.6. I swear the instructions read to select the
item, then use the distort tool with shift-option-command,
dragging from a corner; but all that does for me is scale it
from the center. What am I not getting?

inez

steggy

2004-02-21, 4:28 am

iehsmith wrote:
>
> trying to use a perspective distortion. I'm using Illy 9 on
> Mac OS 8.6. I swear the instructions read to select the
> item, then use the distort tool with shift-option-command,
> dragging from a corner; but all that does for me is scale it
> from the center. What am I not getting?
>
> inez


Do you mean the Shear Tool? Just use shift or no key what ever.
Distortion in version 8 was only in the Filters. Not sure
about 9.


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steg
Chmura

2004-02-21, 10:28 am

To do this the perspective operation make sure you click and hold the corner
you want to drag _before_ you press the 3 buttons.
It usually works fine that way.
Hope this helps.

see ya
Gary W. Chmura

"iehsmith" <inezhsmithspammenot@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:BC5C6713.13E91%inezhsmithspammenot@earthlink.net...
> trying to use a perspective distortion. I'm using Illy 9 on
> Mac OS 8.6. I swear the instructions read to select the
> item, then use the distort tool with shift-option-command,
> dragging from a corner; but all that does for me is scale it
> from the center. What am I not getting?
>
> inez
>



iehsmith

2004-02-21, 1:28 pm

Thank you, Gary. That did the trick! I thought I was going
more insane than I already am, but I was holding the keys
down before grabbing the corner. UGH!

Thanks again,
inez

> From: "Chmura" <bdchmura@cogeco.ca>
> Subject: Re: I'm doing something wrong
>
> To do this the perspective operation make sure you click and hold the corner
> you want to drag _before_ you press the 3 buttons.
> It usually works fine that way.
> Hope this helps.
>
> see ya
> Gary W. Chmura
>
> "iehsmith" <inezhsmithspammenot@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:BC5C6713.13E91%inezhsmithspammenot@earthlink.net...
>
>


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