The phrase "alter it from" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing changes or modifications made to something, specifying the original state or source from which the alteration is made.
Example: "We need to alter it from the original design to better fit our current needs."
Alternatives: "modify it from" or "change it from".
Perhaps not surprisingly, people have asked me about the reasoning behind re-editing the film, questioning why I chose to alter it from earlier iterations.
While the primary installation will be a gallery projection, it will also be viewable on the web and smart mobile devices, allowing users to alter it from any location with an internet connection and receive a texted response containing a link to a snapshot from the visual they create.
Nine years later he altered it from its original rectangular layout to its current squared one, which is now liberally splashed over offerings in the capsule collection.
After joining the producer Nancy Tannenbaum on the film, Ms. Rosenthal altered it from a broad farce to "more of a reality-based comedy," she says.
A small number of previous studies have noted that the method of filling the silo may affect the flow pattern, generally altering it from mass to mixed flow.
The biosurfactant used in this study also showed the ability to change the wettability of sandstone rock surfaces, thus altering it from oil-wet to water-wet (Al-Sulaimani et al. 2012).
"The strong-armed dream of Russian President Vladimir Putin has thus far succeeded not in embellishing the Olympic motto, but altering it, from 'swifter, higher, stronger' to, 'unfinished, unsettling and uninviting,'" writes the Los Angeles Times's Bill Plaschke.
The Golden Rule is again mentioned, and LaVey suggests altering it from "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" to "Do unto others as they do unto you" so that if someone is treated poorly, he or she can respond viciously.
The trick to this is to go to the URL area where the link is getting played, cancel the name of the web page the link is originally played on and alter it with the aisle from footfall two.
The slogan "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months" - taken from Oscar Wilde - is pasted on the wall, beside drawings and pages torn from magazines of the work of celebrated contemporary illustrators such as Richard Sala and Tony Millionaire (plus David McKee, author of Mr Benn and the Elmer the elephant books).
After buying the semiautomatic rifle for about $900, Helmer said, he altered it to stop it from firing and plans to turn it in to a police station that will not resell it.
