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The Transform Each command - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator 2020 Essential Training
The Transform Each command
- [Instructor] In addition to the transformation tools, which of course allow you to select objects and transform them, there is a command that can help you to transform a whole bunch of things at the same time. On the layer in this illustration here I've got a whole bunch of bees, a swarm if you will, and I want to add some motion into them, even an element of randomness. The Transform Again command lives under the Object menu. It has a shortcut, which is, requiring many fingers on one hand, Shift + Option + Command + D, or Shift + Alt + Control + D on Windows, or here in the Transform menu and you'll see Transform Each just there and you get this dialog. Now there's a few things you can do here. I'm going to rotate these around. I'll turn on Preview so you can see what I'm doing and if I just dial up the rotation, look at that. It's like formation flying, bank left, bank right. Perfect, there we go. Value for…
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