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Transformations

Transformations - Illustrator Tutorial

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Transformations

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Now let's go through quickly a couple of transformation techniques in Illustrator. First up, scaling your objects should be fairly straightforward. You hold down the shift key and drag up and down from one of the corner points so the shift key is there to make sure you keep the proportions the same and you're not distorting the object. Now in case you can't see a bounding box around your object you might want to press command or ctrl shift B that's going to reveal it but you can also find this from the view menu so there is the bounding box option just make sure that's turned on to be able to see these corner points. If you want to rotate something around so let's just say this girl is flying around and we want her to be slightly on an angle we can go close to a corner point and start dragging in the direction we want or hold down shift key we can also drag in 45 degrees increments. If you hold down the alt or option key together with the shift key when you are scaling something you…

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