How to Shear Objects in Adobe InDesign CS6 Documents In Adobe
InDesign CS6, you can shear an object, which means that you’re
skewing it horizontally, slanting it to the left or right. A
sheared object may appear to have perspective or depth because
of this modification. You use the Shear tool to create a
shearing effect. Follow these steps to shear an object: Select
an object on the page. The bounding box appears around the
object that’s selected. Choose the Shear tool in the Tools panel
by clicking and holding the Free Transform tool. The cursor
changes so that it looks similar to a cross hair. Click the
corner of the object that you want to shear from, and a cross
hair appears. Click anywhere above or below the object and drag.
The selected object shears depending on which direction you
drag. Press the Shift key while you drag to shear an object in
45-degree increments. To shear objects with the Free Transform
tool, begin dragging a handle and then hold down Ctrl+Alt
(Windows) or cmd+Option (Mac) while drag