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Shearing
Shearing an object slants, or skews, the object along the axis you specify. Copying while
shearing is useful for creating cast shadows.
To shear with the free transform tool:
1 With the selection tool, select the object or objects to shear.
2 Select the free transform tool
3 Start dragging a handle on the side of the bounding box (not a corner) and then hold
down Ctrl+Alt (Windows) or Option+Command (Mac OS) as you drag until the object has
the desired shape. Shift-drag to constrain the tool to multiples of 45 degrees.
To shear with the shear tool:
1 With the selection tool, select the object or objects to shear.
2 Select the shear tool .
3 Do one of the following:
Drag the object to shear by using the object's center point as the point of origin.
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Click to set the point of origin from which you want the object to be sheared. Then
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move the pointer away from the shear axis, and drag in the direction you want to shear
the object.
Shift-drag to constrain the tool.
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Select object (left); then drag with the shear tool (right).
To shear a copy of the object instead of the object itself, start dragging and then hold
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down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS).
For finer control over shearing, start dragging farther from the point of origin.
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To shear by specifying an angle and an axis:
1 With the selection tool, select the object or objects to shear.
2 Do one of the following:
To use the default (center point) point of origin, choose Object > Transform > Shear or
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double-click the shear tool.
To change the point of origin from which to shear the object, select the shear tool and
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click where you want the new point of origin.
3 In the Shear dialog box, enter the new shear angle. The shear angle is the amount of
slant to be applied to the object, relative to a line perpendicular to the shear axis.
(Contrary to the way the program works with other transformation tools, the shear angle is
calculated clockwise from the current axis.)
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