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Work with Free Distort effects

Work with Free Distort effects - Illustrator Tutorial

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Work with Free Distort effects

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll take a look at the controls in Astute Graphics Stylism for working with Free Distort live effects. To apply a Free Distort effect with Stylism, select an object, and click on the Free Distort button in the Stylism panel, which is the second one from the left in the bottom row. And the controls are pretty simple. You get a bounding box around the object that you can click and drag to distort the object. If you move your cursor over any corner of the bounding box, you see the X and Y values. And if you double-click on a corner, you get a dialog box where you can enter precise values for where you want that corner to be. So, for example, I could move this corner out to 700 pixels X value and, say, 300 Y value. I can also drag any corner or any side to distort the object. If I drag a corner closer to another one, I start to see a crosshairs annotation. This represents the vanishing point…

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