<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible">The icon on the main toolbar opens the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Effects</span> window. Here you can edit objects with different effects.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph">Select the object or several objects. Point to the tool, press the mouse button and hold it down for a while longer. Under the <span class="T1">Effects</span> icon you will see several sub-icons. Holding the mouse button down, move to one of the icons and release the mouse button there to make this icon the current effects tool. It then replaces the previous <span class="T1">Effects</span> icon on the Drawings Toolbar.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">You can, however, also release the button and then drag the title bar of the window until a window outline follows the cursor. If you release the button now, you will see the freely movable <span class="T1">Effects</span> window. It remains on the screen until you close it explicitly, e.g., with the closing field.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Choose this tool to rotate the selected object. You can then move the cursor over one of the handles and it will change its appearance. Above the four corner handles, the mouse cursor has the form of an open circle arc; above the four center handles, it takes the form of a distortion cursor. At the center of the object, you see the pivot point, which you can move with the mouse. This is the point around which the object is rotated.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">There is only one pivot point per slide of your drawing or presentation. This has the advantage that you can rotate several objects (even subsequently inserted objects) around the common pivot point positioned once. If you double-click an object, the pivot point is placed in the center of this object.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Rotate the object in the plane of the page by placing the cursor on one of the four corners and dragging it afterwards. Rotate in the third dimension perpendicular to the page by placing the cursor on one of the central handles of the four sides and dragging. When rotation in 3D, the handle on the side opposite the object temporarily becomes the pivot point.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Use this tool to flip the selected object.</help:help-text> The flip line with points at each end appears. Using the mouse, you can drag these points to another place individually, or you can move the entire flip line, without changing the orientation, by clicking the object between the points and dragging it. You flip an object at the flip line by dragging one of its handles across the flip line and releasing it.</p>
<p class="Head2"><help:help-id value="SID_CONVERT_TO_3D_LATHE" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/><a name="3drot"/>To 3D Rotation Object<help:key-word value="3D rotation objects; converting to" tag="kw67277_12" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/><help:key-word value="converting; to 3D rotation objects" tag="kw67277_11" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">With this tool, you can transform a 2D object into a 3D rotation object. If a 2D object is selected, it can be rotated around the rotation axis so that a 3D rotation object is created.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph">Draw a 2D object, a Bézier curve of half of the outline of a chessman, for example. Click on <span class="T1">To 3D Rotation Object</span>. You will now see a symmetry axis, which you can move with the mouse. At the ends of the symmetry axis, you will see small circles, which you can also move with the mouse to change the angle of the axis.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Now move the axis a bit or further until you see a dashed mirror image of the 2D object on the other side of the axis.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">As soon as the axis is aligned, click the 2D object. It is converted into a 3D object.+</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Move the axis only far enough that the two object representations do not overlap. If they overlap, no 3D object will be created.</p>
<p class="Head2"><help:help-id value="SID_OBJECT_CROOK_ROTATE" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>Set in Circle (perspective)<help:key-word value="objekts; setting perspectively in circle" tag="kw67277_10" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">With this tool, you set the selected object perspectively on a circle.</help:help-text> Select the object, click this tool, then place the cursor on one of the eight handles of the object. The cursor will look like a crown. Now drag in various directions while pressing the left mouse button to see what happens to the delimiting frame of the object. When you release the button, the object conforms to the delimiting frame.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Set in circle (perspective)</p>
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<p class="Head2"><help:help-id value="SID_OBJECT_CROOK_SLANT" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>Set in Circle (slant)<help:key-word value="objekts; setting slanted in circle" tag="kw67277_9" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">With this tool, you slant the marked object and set it in a circle.</help:help-text> It is used in the same way as the perspective setting in a circle described above.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Choose this tool for distorting the marked object.</help:help-text> Distorting is only possible with polygons or Bézier curves. If the object to be distorted is not available as a polygon or Bézier curve, you will be asked if you want to transform the object. Though this was not possible with slanting, here you can change the edge length of the object when you distort.</p>
<p class="Head2"><help:help-id value="SID_OBJECT_TRANSPARENCE" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>Transparency<help:key-word value="transparency; of objekts" tag="kw67277_6" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/><help:key-word value="objekts; making transparent" tag="kw67277_5" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/><help:key-word value="gradients; transparent" tag="kw67277_4" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">This tool can be used to interactively define a transparency gradient.</help:help-text> The gradient behaves like a color gradient with grayscale values, where black corresponds to a value of 0% transparency and white to a value of 100% transparency. All colors that you apply, for example, from the Color bar using Drag & Drop are converted automatically to grayscales, which define the level of transparency. Click outside the selected object to apply the gradient and to exit this mode. Use the Undo function if you do not want to apply the gradient.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Note: The <span class="T1">transparency</span> effect is only visible if a background or object is located behind the transparent object.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">This tool can be used to interactively alter a color gradient for a selected object that already has a gradient.</help:help-text> The existing color gradient (see Format - Area - Gradients) offers options for determining the manner in which you can make changes interactively. Depending on the type of gradient, you can edit the vector and the color objects. For example, you can drag colors using drag & drop from the Color Bar and drop them onto the color objects. Click outside the selected object to apply the gradient and to exit this mode. Use the Undo function if you do not want to apply the gradient.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">When you invoke this tool, you will see two color objects in the selected object, which are linked by means of a vector. Depending on the type of color gradient, you can move one or both color objects. You can change the color of each color object by dragging a color from the Color Bar (View - Toolbars - Color Bar) and dropping it onto a color object.</p>
