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Adobe Encore CS3 Tutorials
Transform Tools / Move & Rotate
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Let's take a look at how you can move and rotate things around in the menu that you might want to build. We'll just use a button and we'll use some of the tools to see how we can do just that. So I'm going to choose this Zany Button that lives in the General Set and, of course, in the buttons category. I'm going to click and drag this right onto my menu and I'm also going to scale it up a little bit. Now, whenever you want to rotate things, you have two options that are pretty easy to access. The first, of course, is by putting your mouse, your cursor literally along the edges here in the corners. So you don't want to go here or here, but the corners or right along the edge. You click and hold your mouse. When you get the curved, double-sided arrow and drag with your mouse to rotate in the desired degree. Now, if you want to constrain this, what you can do is hold down the Shift Key. So I'm going to put my mouse here, hold down Shift and it's going to constrain it for me in 45-degree increments. So it's 45, 90 and the rest of the math I'm going to ignore. So here we go. That's one way to constrain things. You can also, of course, do it arbitrarily, which means on your own. Put your mouse out here and just rotate it until you find an angle that you're happy with. You can also go to the Object Menu and choose the Rotate Category and choose to rotate 180 degrees. I'll Undo that, return to Object, Rotate 90 degrees clockwise, which is the CW, and of course, Rotate 90 degrees counter-clockwise. Now, as far as moving objects, you can move them by clicking in the middle of the object and as you see, I just have the regular, old Arrow Tool here selected. I can also do the same thing with the Direct Selection Tool, click and drag the elements inside that button and don't forget, that's the difference between these tools. We have our Selection Tool, our Direct Selection Tool and our Move Tool. The white arrow always allows you to grab the minute details that are hard to grab with the other tools. So we want to grab everything, you click on one of the other tools and move the whole thing. So I can also grab this guy here and drag the entire button if I so desire. So I can click on that and move that guy around. So that is how you can move and rotate elements that you bring into your menus inside of Encore.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Encore CS3 |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 33884 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-00-9 |
| Release Date: | 2008-09-30 |
| Duration: | 6.5 hrs / 101 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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