Handy
Tip: When
using Corel Paint Shop Pro, the deformation tool allows you to
easily rotate, resize, skew and distort a floating selection of
an image or text.
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How to use the deformation tool 
For text,
simply have your text as a Floating Selection and click on the
Deformation tool to work.
For images, using the Selection tool, choose the part of
the image you want to work on, then choose Selections || Float.
Keep in mind that you are now working on a copy of your image with the
underlying image still intact.
Now click on the Deformation Tool Icon.
Your selection will now have handles in the corner and a handle in the
middle as illustrated in the following graphic.
Notice on
this magnified copy how a frame with "nodes" has been
placed around the text. By placing your cursor on one of the nodes you
can drag out the frame and deform the text.
In the middle
of the frame there is a handle, and dragging on the handle will
tilt the text in the direction of your choice.
So as you can see, you can make your text longer, shorter, fatter, thinner
or angled.
When
you hover the cursor over the right handle on the middle bar, the cursor turns
into two curved arrows in opposite directions. When you are in this state of the
Deform tool, you can rotate your graphic by moving your mouse up or down. The
handles on the Deform tool can be manipulated in three ways.
The first
is by clicking on any handle with the left mouse button. This will turn the cursor
into a "cross hair" with a rectangle box. This allows you to make an image wider,
narrower, shorter or taller. Just grab a handle and push or pull. The
second option you invoke by holding down the Shift key while clicking on
a handle. This will turn the box next to the cursor into an angled box. This option
allows you to slant your graphic to the right or to the left.
Now here
is the really cool function of the deformation tool.
Holding down the Control Key while dragging the nodes will effect that
end only. Therefore you have the ability to deform one end only of
the text string.
So if you need to make your text follow a 3D effect it is now easy with
the Deformation Tool and the power of PSP.
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