Shearing the relief clipart

You can shear the relief clipart horizontally and vertically. Shearing can be visualised by thinking of an image superimposed onto a flexible rubber sheet. If you hold the sides of the sheet and move them up and down in opposite directions, the image undergoes a spatial stretching known as shearing.

Shearing relief clipart using the cursor

To shear relief clipart using the cursor:

1. Select the relief clipart.
2. Click the Transform button.
3. Position the cursor over a pink shearing handle adjacent to the transform box. The cursor changes to .
4. Click and drag the pink shearing handle to adjust the angle of the relief clipart. The values shown in the Shear area are updated.
   Note: Hold down Ctrl when you click and drag to leave behind a copy of the relief clipart in its original shape.
5. Release the mouse button to position the relief clipart.

Shearing relief clipart using exact values

To shear relief clipart using exact values:

1. Select the relief clipart.
2. Click the Transform button.
3. In the Shear area, enter the angles by which you want to shear the relief clipart. To shear:
   • horizontally, enter an angle in the W box.
   • vertically, enter an angle in the H box.
4. Click Apply to shear the relief clipart. The Repeat button replaces the Apply button.
   Note: Hold down Ctrl when you click Apply to leave behind a copy of the relief clipart in its original shape.

   

5. Click Repeat to shear the relief clipart again by the angles in the W and H boxes.
   Note: Hold down Ctrl when you click Repeat to leave behind a copy of the relief clipart in its original shape.