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24 Getting Started

selected object is shown with 8 handles around the outside, and the status line at the
bottom of the screen also tells you what is selected.

Select a photo and the Smart Photo handles appear (shown left). These allow you to
crop, resize, rotate and round your photo. Drag on any corner handle to resize an object.
Drag just inside the corner handles (shown centre) to rotate, stretch and resize. The
rotate handles appear when you click the object again and allow you rotate and skew the
object around an anchor (shown right).

Nudging Objects
The arrow keys can be used to nudge the selected object, one pixel at a time. If you hold
"Shift", it nudges objects 10 pixels at a time.

Rotating Objects
There are two ways to rotate an object. Either click on the object a second time, so the
selection handles change to show rotation handles, which you can then drag on to rotate
the object. Or, when it's showing the square selection handles, move the mouse pointer
just inside the corner handles until you see the mouse pointer change to a rotation
indicator - you can then also drag to rotate the selected object.

InfoBar

When an object is selected, the InfoBar - just above your document - shows all the
relevant controls for the current tool.

Important: This bar changes depending on which tool is selected.

This is the InfoBar in the SELECTOR TOOL:

The InfoBar, just above your document, shows controls for the selected tool.

You can enter numeric values into any field; e.g. to reduce the size of an object by 20%
you can enter 80% into the W field (which is a % size). The little padlock selects whether
both the width and height change together.