Poser 8 Revealed: Editing and Posing Figures - Part 2 Scaling
and Tapering Elements The Scale tool (S) changes the size of the
element along a single axis, but you can cause the element to be
uniformly scaled along all axes at the same time by holding down
the Shift key while dragging. The Taper tool (P) is similar to
the Scale tool, except it scales only one end of an element
leaving the other unchanged. The result of a tapered element is
to make the object long and thin or short and fat. Figure 3-19
shows a figure whose chest and collarbones have been scaled.
Although the real place to apply colors and textures to a figure
element is in the Material Room, which is covered in Chapter 8,
“Creating and Applying Materials,” you can place basic flat
colors to elements using the Color tool (C). Clicking with this
tool on an element causes a pop-up color palette, shown in
Figure 3-20, to appear. You can select a color from this pop-up
color palette by dragging over the color that you want to
select. Clicking a col