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Xara X. The Mould Tool (Continued) |
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The operation is simple. Select the enveloped shape you wish to copy (it must have an envelope shape applied), select the Mould Tool, and press the
Copy Envelope button. Select the object to which you want to apply the envelope shape, and press the Paste Envelope button on the Infobar. NOTE: As with many of Xara X's tools, you can now select an object with the Mould Tool instead of selecting it first with the Selector Tool (the pointer). |
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Select the shape to be molded, select the
Mould Tool then press the Default Envelope (or Default Perspective) button on the Infobar. Click one of the four corner points with the Mould Tool and little gray lines with tiny red squares will
appear. These gray lines and red squares are control handles which modify the shape of the envelope and its contents. Drag these handles to any new location and the envelope redraws in real time. |
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You can modify the envelope by dragging the four corner points or by dragging the vanishing point. This is useful for creating an actual
perspective drawing as you can establish a pair of crossed guideslines for the drawing's vanishing point and then drag each objects vanishing point to the crossed guidelines to achieve perspective. |
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Enable Snap To Objects (press the red
magnet icon on the Infobar or right click on the page and select Snap To Objects). Apply a Default Perspective envelope to the bitmap. Drag the corners of the bitmap and snap them to the corners of the frame
object. |
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You can also create your own custom shapes and save them for future use. If you come up with some really cool shapes, let me know and we'll post them for all to appreciate and use. |
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