Adobe Encore CS3 Tutorials
Transform Tools / Scale & Arrange
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When you're building a menu, you'll find yourself often having to scale or resize elements so that they meet your desired requirements. So sometimes you might design a button that's too large and you might want to scale it down a little bit or scale it up. You can also scale images that live in the timeline. So I'm going to talk about the two different ways we're going to scale and then we'll talk about how to arrange items so that you can move things that are obstructed by other elements, say two buttons, so that the button that you want to be in front of the other one is the one that's going to overlap the one behind it. Alright, let's start off with talking about how to take a still image. As you see in my timeline, I have just a random image that I brought into Encore and you can follow along if you want to just by importing any image asset and then we're going to go to the Properties Panel and you'll see we have this ability to Scale and Apply Matte. So as you see, I double click on this image here and just to show you that it's the one that we're going to deal with and I'll take a look at it in my monitor. So let me go ahead and grab my monitor and wait for that to load and what I'm going to do at this point is I'm going to show you that we have three options: Scale and Apply Matte, OK? We have Scale and Apply Matte. We also have Scale and Crop Edges and Do Nothing. Now, what happens with the Scale and Apply Matte is that the image will be resized in proportion and where there is extra space, Encore will add a black matte around a black border. If we choose Scale and Crop Edges, it's going to scale it so it fits your view port area, your monitor area and it's going to not apply a matte but crop those edges and Do Nothing works in a similar fashion. So let's go ahead and see what happens when I choose Scale and Apply Matte. Scales the image up and when I choose Scale and Crop Edges, as you notice the image got slightly larger and it cropped them off. I'll Undo that so you can see. Notice the difference? We have this thin, black edge here and when I choose Scale and Crop Edges, it cropped the image so that it fit appropriately. I'll Undo that and we'll choose Do Nothing. Now, Do Nothing, if this image were very small, would blow it up pretty big and not crop it or matte it. It would just fit in really nice. Now, let's talk about how you can scale other things such as buttons. If I click on the button with my Selection Tool, I can click on these corners here and move my mouse in to scale. If I hold Shift, they will remain in proportion. So the image will stay exactly the same proportion as far as width and height. But if I don't hold it I can squash the button and I can stretch it and I can pull it like this as well. And I can also do that from the edges here. I can pull and shrink from the corners here, the edges, and at the top and bottom. So that's how we can scale images and buttons inside of the interface. Now let's take a look at how to arrange things. I'm going to just drag out a new button and I'm going to literally put it right on top of this button here and I'll scale it up. Now, we have this button that's obscured by this button. So let's just say you have a couple of images or something that you want to focus on but you still want to have some kind of overlap. Well, you can click on whatever the item is in the background, go to the Object Menu, choose a range and Bring to Front. The object is now brought in front of the other one and you can also click on it and send it back. So that is how you can arrange things so that you can have things overlapping but choose the one you want to be in the front. You also have some intermediary ones here, such as Bring Forward and Send Backwards when you have more than one item to choose from, like maybe three or four. So once again, that's how you can scale an image in the timeline, you can scale something like a button and you can also arrange the order so that one item can be in front of another or vice versa.
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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