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Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design and Web Premium All-in-One For Dummies

by Jennifer Smith, Christopher Smith, Fred Gerantabee
June 2012
Beginner
1056 pages
24h 21m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 6: Clipping Paths, Alignment, and Object Transformation

In This Chapter

check.png Transforming objects with the Transform panel

check.png Transforming objects with the Free Transform tool

check.png Rotating and scaling objects

check.png Shearing and reflecting objects

check.png Adding a clipping path

check.png Aligning and distributing objects in a layout

In this chapter, you discover several different ways to manipulate and arrange objects on a page. You find out how to use the Transform panel and other tools in the Tools panel to transform objects on page layouts. You can make the same transformation in many different ways in InDesign, so for each way you can transform an object, we show you a couple different ways to do the same job.

Aligning and distributing objects and images helps you organize elements logically on a page. In this chapter, you find out how to align objects by using the Align panel. In Chapter 4 of this minibook, ...

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