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Transforming objects - Fireworks Tutorial
From the course: Fireworks CS6 Essential Training
Transforming objects
Scaling and transforming are common tasks when preparing web graphics. So let's take a look at of some of the options you have at your disposal. So the first tool you might want to use is this Transform tool. This is a multipurpose tool. It's called the Scale tool here, but when you click on it you could see that it allows you to do a number of transformations. First one of course is scaling, if you just click on an object to make it bigger. You can click and drag it on anyone of these edges to make the object wider or taller. If you notice when I put my mouse close to the object, sometimes I get these rotation handles that means that I can click and drag to rotate the object around its center point. So let me click on that again, and notice that in the middle of the object I also have a Registration point, and any of these Scaling Tools or any of these Transformation Tools going to move this Registration Points so that things rotate or skew or move according to that point. So now…
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