Is there an easy way to draw a simple parallogram. . . CS 3

I'm blind I guess, I can't find it... Thanks!! L W - Also fill with color...

Draw a rectangle with the rectangle frame tool. While still selected, go to the Transform panel to find the Shear field and type in an angle.
Mike Witherell in Maryland

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Howdy,
This is a really good question about one of the bigger challenges of building a 3D project. When you add objects to the Canvas (including drawing), they get added in the camera's viewspace, facing the camera and sharing the same up-vector (i.e. positive Y is up). This is all well and good, but what about doing what you ask, where you want to add an object in the localspace of another object? Let's look at your example: adding a shape that is coplanar to a photo, with the camera not necessarily aligned with the photo.
As Mark suggested, you can draw the shape in the camera's viewspace and then drag-and-drop the Position and Rotation channels from the photo onto the shape. This will replace the shape's Position and Rotation values with that of the photo, making them coplanar and located in the same place. The shortcoming of this method is that you draw the shape at a size that seems correct in the Canvas, but once it's moved to the same place as the photo, it will often turn out to be too small or large. Then you have to make further tweaks.
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danmonsterman wrote:
… I'm new to imovie. It surprises me that it requires three keys …
for good reason - 'splitting' a clip is in normal editing in iMovie rarely used.
< your voice: > "Wot?!"
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Solved!
Go to Solution.
Attachments:
CMM_SN_MULTI.vi ‏20 KB

Hi chuck72352,
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