User Guide

Canvas 12 User Guide
1. Rotate an edge of the object toward you.
2. With the rotation pointer, drag a side in the direction you want to rotate the object.
As you drag, Canvas displays a circle to show the space in which the object can rotate.
3. Drag inside the circle to rotate the object in all three dimensions.
4. Drag outside the circle to rotate the object on the plane that is facing you.
You can also rotate an extruded object in two dimensions, like other vector objects, choosing Effects
| Rotate or Freeform. The object can’t be in extrusion edit mode to use these commands. When you
use the Rotate and Freeform commands, Canvas does not reapply lighting effects as with three-
dimensional rotation; i.e., the light source appears to move with the object, instead of remaining in
the same place as the object rotates.
Colorizing objects
Use the Colorize command to tint vector objects with solid color fill or pen inks when you want to mix
two colors, or shade one color with another. Doing this in the Presets palette can be complicated,
since you have to create a custom color and set the correct values to approximate a two-color
mixture. The Colorize command lets you simply select two colors and choose the percentage of each.
To colorize a vector object:
1. Select at least one vector object that has a solid color fill or pen ink. Colorize has no effect on
gradient, hatch, texture, and symbol inks.
2. Choose Effects | Colorize.
3. In the Colorize dialog box, turn on the Fill and Stroke options to colorize both, or select the
one ink you want to colorize.
4. In the pop-up color palettes, select the colors you want to add to the inks of the selected
objects.
5. Use the sliders or enter a percentage in the text boxes to set the amount of color to mix with
the object’s color.
6. Turn on Preview to see the effect or click OK to colorize the object.
How colorization works
Canvas uses the specified percentages to determine the new color values for the selected object. For
each color value (e.g., Red, Green, and Blue in the RGB color model), Canvas finds the difference
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