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Using the specific Transform tools - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator 2020 Essential Training
Using the specific Transform tools
- [Instructor] We've got five specific transformation tools in Illustrator, and that's what we're going to take a look at here. The first of which, you might be surprised by, is move, because a lot of people use the move tool or the selection tool to move things around and think, yeah, but effectively, it is a transformation. Now, with all transformations, you've got a couple of different ways you can work. You can either just drag things around and change them, or you can access a dialogue by selecting and item and hitting return. And this is the move dialogue. So for example, if I wanted to move this vertically by 50 millimeters, you can see that I can do that with the preview showing me there. I can also move by a specific angle. So if I needed to move this by, I don't know, minus 31.8, random numbers there, to move it, it will calculate the necessary horizontal and vertical distances to do that. Additionally, if I want…
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