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8. Click the right-center handle again. Without pressing the Spacebar, drag
right until the handle snaps to the right edge of the filmstrip.
Simply dragging the handle resizes the entire selection; the spacing and position of
various selected objects relative to one another is not affected.

Click the center handle,
then drag right.

Note:
Dragging a center handle
The space between selected The selected objects are
objects is not affected. stretched horizontally. changes the object size in
only one direction.
9. With the eight empty frames selected, choose Object>Group.
Grouping multiple objects means you can treat them as a single unit. This is necessary
when you want to use the align options to position the group of frames relative to other
objects without affecting the positioning of the placeholder frames relative to one another.

After grouping,
a single bounding box
outlines the entire group.

Note:

10. Press Shift, and click the filmstrip graphic to add it to the active selection. Group objects by pressing
Command/Control-G.
11. Using the Align panel or the Control panel, click the Align Horizontal
Centers and Align Vertical Centers buttons. Ungroup objects by
pressing Command/
Depending on how precisely you created and transformed the frames, this might have a
very noticeable effect; it ensures that the frames are centered to the filmstrip graphic. Control-Shift-G.

12. In the Control panel, choose the center reference point.
13. Place the Selection tool cursor just outside the top-right handle of the
selection. When you see the Rotate cursor, click and drag up until the cursor
feedback shows 3°.
The rotation is applied The orange lines show Cursor feedback
around the selected the angle compared to shows the degree
reference point. Rotation Angle field the horizontal plane. of rotation.
Place the Selection tool
cursor just outside a
corner handle to rotate
the selection.

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14. Using the Selection tool, click away from the shapes that make up the
filmstrip graphic to deselect the objects.

15. Save the file and continue to the next exercise.

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