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• To resize drag on one of the arrow heads away from the center. You can hold
"Ctrl" to constrain the angle.
• To rotate the image, drag one of the arrowheads around the center.
• To re-position the image, drag anywhere on the image.
On the InfoBar of the FILL TOOL, you can select the
"repeating tile" option which makes the image a tiling
bitmap fill. By dragging the fill handles you can now
resize and rotate the image tile dimension. There is no
better demonstration of the speed of MAGIX Page &
Layout Designer 2013 than to do this with a huge
multi-megapixel image.
If you have a Photo Group instead of just an ordinary photo object you can’t use the
FILL TOOL as described above to scale and rotate the image in its frame. If you want to
convert a Photo Group into an ordinary photo object so you can adjust it using the
FILL
TOOL
, you can use "UTILITIES" > "OPTIMIZE PHOTO" to do this. But note that this is
destructive in that thereafter you will not be able to modify any of the photo edits
you’ve applied to the photo.
Horizon Straighten
Using the FILL TOOL, as previously described, means it's easy to straighten the horizon
of an askew picture.
• Select the Fill Tool and click on any photo. This will show the fill handles, which
are arrows showing the extent of the fill inside the shape.
• Drag on the end of one of the fill arrows to resize, and rotate as required.
The following shows a landscape (created using the panorama stitching feature of
Page & Layout Designer) that has a sloping horizon.