what is the secret to Illustrator's Free Transform tool distort?
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- fourthgen
I'm trying to free distort with the free transform tool and I'm about to lose it. I click first on the corner of a bounding box, move it a little, and a split second later hold command (I'm on a mac). I have to try it about 400 times before it magically let's me distort.
there has got to be a secret to doing this. I thought it was my tablet at first but it's just as hard with the mouse.
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- moamoa0
longest headline ever
- MrOneHundred0
I gave up on it some time ago. Using Object > Envelope Distort satisfies my distortion needs. Except some rare cases when I have to open up FreeHand 9 and remember how to get Illy files in and out of it. But I avoid that at all costs.
- fourthgen0
mronehundred,
Yeah I agree. but I can't avoid it if I want to distort over a 2pt. perspective :(
- janne760
me too
- epete220
forth when I do that stuff, I do it in photosop and convert my txt to shapes
- fourthgen0
i guess i can just bring it into pshop.
I want to find the person who is responsible for this and rape their grandma in front of them.
- nolovelost0
Its hard but, yeah click the edge with the free transform tool selected, then command, and shift to distort in a straight line, and also option to do opposing corners at the same time
- +1 b/c the order in which you click/keystroke/drag is keyb_electro
- airey0
this gets me everrytime but - you need to make sure you've got the Free Transform tool selected rather than just the bounding box and:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/…- hmm good point. I guess it is impossible with the selection tool.fourthgen
- fourthgen0
yeah that was definitely it lol.... well at least I was on the clock when it was happening.
- airey0
bumb for relevance with sarcastic referential post:
http://www.qbn.com/topics/566141…
- meffid0
works fine for me.
- 23kon0
if you can open the box then all the worlds secrets will be revealed to you
