MX

Resize, rotate and position a photo within its
frame
Photos in Web Designer MX Premium are treated like a "bitmap filled" rectangle. The shape of your
photo is really a fully editable outline around the image contained inside. So when you crop, or edit the
outline shape, you're not affecting the fill, which is clipped inside the shape.
Photos and bitmaps on the page are always contained within an outline shape. Not only can you change
the shape of the outline, you can also adjust the size, angle and position of the photo within its frame using
the Fill Tool. Just select the photo, go into the Fill Tool and you will see fill arrows at right angles from
the center (or you can go into Fill Tool
, and click on the photo to select).
For example, to enlarge and rotate the image on the left inside its frame, select the Fill Tool
and drag on one of the arrowheads.
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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.
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To rotate the image, drag one of the arrowheads around the center.
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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 Web Designer MX
Premium 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.
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