Corel Painter Help | Stretching, rotating, and skewing text

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Stretching, rotating, and skewing text

You can change the appearance of text by stretching, rotating, or skewing the text. Stretching text affects both the horizontal and vertical size. As you stretch vertically, the text appears thinner and taller. As you stretch horizontally, the text appears flatter and shorter.

Rotating pivots the text from the end point of the text block. Depending on the alignment of the text, it pivots from the lower-left corner, lower-right corner, or center. You can also skew the text by slanting the text to the right or left.

Rotated text (right).

To stretch, rotate, or skew text

Select text using the Layer Adjuster tool

Choose a task from the following table:


To	Do the following
Stretch text	Drag a handle in the direction you want to stretch the text.
Rotate text	Hold down Command (Mac OS) or Ctrl (Windows), and drag one of the corner handles.
Skew text	Hold down Command (Mac OS) or Ctrl (Windows), and drag one of the center handles on either side of the text.

If the bounding box is not shown, click the Layer options button and choose Show Layer Indicators.

Some features described in the Help are available only in Corel Painter 2015, and are not included in Painter Essentials 5. For more information about Corel Painter 2015, visit http://www.painterartist.com/.

To get started with Painter Essentials 5, see the Painter Essentials 5 Quick Start Guide.