The Xara Trompe L'Oeil Room Page 5
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If Snap To Objects is not enabled, press the red magnet icon to enable it, or right click on the page and select Snap to Objects from the pop up menu.

Select the top center shape (the formerly red rectangle) then select the Mould Tool . Select the second rectangle icon on the Infobar to apply a Default Perspective envelope. Zoom in very close and using the Mould Tool cursor, drag the corners of the shape until they snap into place as shown. Repeat this step for the two smaller rectangular shapes. This adds perspective to the shapes.

NOTE: The reason for increasing the dpi for the smaller rectangles is this: I found when preparing this tutorial that at the normal fill size, the fills went berserk and did not look correct. When I doubled the dpi setting, the envelopes worked fine. Go figure!

Make duplicates of the three fills and rotate and apply them to the other sides as shown.

This is a good time to save your file, and take a quick eye break.

Of course if you don't mind walking around squinting at every thing you see (as I do) then you can skip the eye breaks. Your call.

OK We are back.

One by one, select the black, white and gray shapes that lie beneath the enveloped shapes we just created and bring them to the front.

How?

Easy. Click on the top shape, then hold down the Alt key and click again. This selects the next object below. Then use Ctrl F to bring the selected hidden object to the top.

NOTE: Alt clicking is called digging because every time you Alt click, you dig down another layer. If you had five identical items piled one on top the other, each Alt click would select the next object down.