Sizing the effects area manually
Some effects need to extend far outside an objects bounding box. In
these cases, the auto-size option might not extend the effects area far
enough. If this happens, you can enlarge the effects area yourself.
1
Select the object whose effects area you want to adjust.
2
In the SpriteEffects palette, click the crop icon (
).
3
A box appears on the selected object. The box indicates the
effects area and has hollow handles (the objects bounding box has
solid handles).
4
Drag a handle to enlarge or reduce the effects area. When the
box is the size you want, click inside it.
Sizing the effects area precisely
You can enter values to precisely size the effects area.
1
Select the object whose effects area you want to adjust.
2
In the SpriteEffects palette, choose Size of Effects Area from
the palettes menu.
3
A dialog box appears. Do either:
Set the size of the effects area by entering the distance from
the rulers zero point to the left, top, right, and bottom sides
of the effects area rectangle.
Click a button to enlarge (
) or reduce (
) the size of
the effects area. When you click a button, the distance val-
ues in the text boxes show the new effects area size.
4
Click OK to apply the setting to the effects area.
Effects area box