# Moving fractal fill handles

Moving fractal fill handles

A pair of fill arrows controls Fractal Cloud fills and Fractal Plasma fills. To move the whole fractal, move the center fill handle. To squash, skew and scale the fractal, move the outer handles.

To move a fractal fill handle

1. Select the fractal filled object. See Selecting objects.

2. Choose the Fill Tool.

3. Drag the fill handle.

Tips

If you hold down CTRL while you drag the fill handle its movement is constrained to 45 degree intervals. This is useful for stretching the fill in one direction.

If the Shift key is held down whilst dragging a fill arrow, the angle between the two fill arrows is locked during the drag preventing the fractal from being stretched or skewed making it easy to scale it.

You can also use the Selector Tool to move fill handles if you have set up the Selector Tool to show fill handles on objects. See Enabling fill handles.

You can move fill handles using the cursor keys, see Nudging objects and handles.

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Related Topics

Fractal fills

Fill Tool

Fills overview