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Work with Transform effects

Work with Transform effects - Illustrator Tutorial

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Work with Transform effects

- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll take a look at how to use the Transform Effect controls in Astute Graphic Stylism. I'll begin by selecting my star and I'll add a Transform Live effect by clicking the first button on the left in the bottom row in the Stylism panel. Now I have four sets of controls arranged around the center point of my star plus a bounding box around it. And I'll start by moving my cursor anywhere inside that bounding box and when I do, I can see a display telling me the current offset is zero. If I double-click, I get a dialog box where I can enter offset values in terms of x and y coordinates or distance and angle. And this is great if I know the values that I want or if I want to create a very precise effect or I can do something more intuitive by canceling out of the dialog box and simply dragging from anywhere inside the bounding box. And as I drag, I can see the guide lines from the corners and…

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