Transform tool¶
Introductions¶
The Transform Tool
lets you select an object and manipulate its
handle (move, rotate or scale).
Usage¶
Transform tool
selects it. You can select multiple
objects by holding down the Control
key and clicking on the
additional objects.Transform Tool
, you can not select an object because
it is obscured by another object you can select its layer in the
Layers Panel.Transform tool
works on selected handles only.CTRL
Click on each one. You can
also drag a Selection box around the handles to
select them.Ctrl+A
will select all handles in the selected layers. (Ctrl+D
will deselect all handles)CTRL
will toggle handle
selection. Currently selected handles within the Selection box will
become deselected and currenly non selected handles will become
selected.Clicking on selected handles with the Transform tool
will allow you
to drag them around in the canvas. Make sure you click on them, clicking
outside will deselect the handles.
Pressing shift
while dragging allows you to restrict the movement to
the X or Y coordinates.
Pressing CTRL
while clicking handles will allow you to rotate them
around a calculated center for the currently selected handles.
Pressing ALT
while dragging handles will scale them around their
calculated common centre. Pressing SHIFT
while scaling will preserve
the ratio of the handles.
If you want to constrain a tangent handle to X or Y movement you have
to press SHIFT
after you start to drag it.
Otherwise, pressing SHIFT
before dragging a tangent will split it
into separate left and right tangents.