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about some more advanced ways to move and manipulate objects in Adobe
Illustrator firstly let's go ahead and open up the transform window here so
these two values on the right the W and H values these are the width and the
height numbers of your shapes or your designs if you want to scale your
objects exactly down or up by specific scale you can just simply type in a
percentage of that scale also if you're fully aware of how large your eyeball is
and your working area you can move your design around the eye board in a
percentage to this also works if you have multiple design elements selected
at once if you want to see your transform operation fully you can hide
the bounding box in the view drop down menu
but don't forget to turn it back on afterwards so just like before using the
percentage works really well and this is very useful with scaling objects to
exact values
the next tip on transforming and weaving design elements around illustrator is
that when you hold down the alt/option key to duplicate a shape keep it held
down after clicking and dragging but then also hold down shift - now you can
move your duplication around perfectly at 45-degree angles which actually comes
in handy more than you might think then just remember to keep the alt/option key
held down as well as shift when you're moving around the shape one very handy
almost hidden tool is the free transform tool located here under the perfect warp
tool you can click and drag the icon to determine the center of rotation and you
can freely rotate your design elements around like so this comes in handy when
you wish to freely rotate a selection or a design element around specific points
the last tip in today's video is coming up after this one and it's a real doozy
so you're going to want to hang around for that but the next tip I've actually
shown in videos before but when I'm making a video and transforming shapes I
have to add it in if I want to rotate the smaller circle around the larger one
but in specific amount of duplications I can press R for the rotate tool place
the icon exactly in the center of the circle click once and then hold down the
option key and click again now instead of trying to work out the angle of
rotation I could just type in 360 degrees divided by 24 exactly 20 circles
so the last tip for transforming and manipulating design elements is a real
lifesaver now put a selection of shapes here and
let's say that I want to make them all 50% larger than they are now but I want
them in the same fixed position scaling the shapes just like this mix them large
but they move out the original position so what I can do is to come up to object
transform and then transform each in a new window that appears I can now edit
exactly the size I wish but also the position of the selections stays true
now this is a really neat function that you can use because the shapes do stay
in the original position they just simply grow 50% larger in that location
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about format via the links down below but also you can get yourself a two week
free trial as well as a 25% discount thereafter will show a lesson share my
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