KNK Zing Air - Skewing and Distorting; Skewing; Distorting

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5.06 Skewing and Distorting
5.06.1 Skewing
 Shapes can be skewed either horizontally or vertically:
 There are two ways to skew a shape:
 With the shape selected and Advanced selected on the Tool Options, rest your mouse slightly outside
of a handle in the middle of a side. The skew mode cursor will appear and it can be dragged to skew the
shape:
 With the shape selected, open the Rotate window by using one of these two methods:
o Right-click and select Transform>Rotate
o Go to Object>Transform>Rotate
 Then switch from Angle to Skew and enter a skew angle:
5.06.2 Distorting
 The Distort tool is the 5
th
icon from the bottom on the Tools Panel. Select a shape and then click on
the icon. The four corners of the bounding box will display small boxes:
Starting Shape
Horizontal Skew
Vertical Skew
Both horizontal
and vertical skew
Drag up or
down here
Or… drag right or left here
Switch to Skew
Enter angle here
to skew up/down
Enter angle here
to skew right/left