Corel Painter Help | Resizing, rotating, skewing, and flipping shapes

Resizing, rotating, skewing, and flipping shapes

Corel Painter lets you resize, rotate, flip, or skew an individual shape, or a group of shapes. Before you can work with a shape, you must select it.

Resizing a shape

Rotating a group of shapes

A rectangle (upper left) is skewed by dragging a side middle handle (upper right) and by dragging the top middle handle (bottom).

To resize a shape

1 Choose the Layer Adjuster tool

from the toolbox.

2 Select the shape or group you want to resize.

A selection rectangle appears around the shapes. The rectangle has a handle on each corner and side.

3 Drag one of the handles to resize the selected shape.

To resize in one dimension, drag one of the side handles. To resize in both dimensions, drag one of the corner handles.

You can maintain the proportions by holding down Shift as you drag.

To rotate a shape

1 Choose the Layer Adjuster tool

from the toolbox.

2 Select the shape or group you want to rotate.

A selection rectangle appears around the shapes. The rectangle has a handle on each corner and side.

3 Hold down Command (macOS) or Ctrl (Windows) and drag a corner handle.

This command works for both shapes and pixel-based layers.

To skew a shape

1 Choose the Layer Adjuster tool

from the toolbox.

2 Select the shape or group you want to skew.

3 Hold down Command (macOS) or Ctrl (Windows), and drag a middle handle.

To flip a shape

1 Choose the Shape Selection tool

from the toolbox, and click a shape.

2 On the property bar, click the Edit flyout button

, and choose one of the following options:

• Flip Horizontally

• Flip Vertically

You can also flip a shape by first selecting it with the Layer Adjuster tool . Then, to flip horizontally, drag a top or bottom handle past the opposite handle. To flip vertically, drag a side handle past the opposite handle.