I had that problem, too...so what I do is drop the shapes in the picture as they are and don't rotate them UNLESS you're doing it in 45 degree increments (hold the shift key as you rotate I believe it is.) Don't do any free rotation until the piece you want to skew is the size beforehand. I ran into that problem when I did my castle picture, I noticed I couldn't do the roofs or the guard walls very good at all b/c I couldn't get them to skew right, so I created them by dropping in the shapes, doing all the sizing, placing, grouping, etc...and THEN rotating the building to the way I needed it. Hope this helps some. I'm off to sleepy time for the night. ZZZZZZZZ MD