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Understanding the Free Transform Tool

The Free Transform tool allows you to Constraint
change the shape of selected objects by dragging
transformation handles . Transformation handles Free Transform
Perspective Distort
The Touch widget, which you can use to change
the active transformation mode, appears when When the cursor is over a Free Distort
the Free Transform tool is active . To move the transformation handle,
the icon shows which
Touch bar in the workspace, click away from the distortions can be made.
three buttons and drag to another location .
Moving the cursor over a handle shows the
transformation that can be made by dragging that handle . Clicking one of
the handles shows a larger icon to indicate the possible transformation .

When you first select the Free Transform tool, the widget shows that the Free Transform mode is active . Larger transformation
handles appear over all eight of the selected object’s bounding-box handles . In this case, most of the available transformations
are the same as those you can make when the Selection tool is active .

Drag a corner handle diagonally in or Drag a center handle perpendicular Drag a center handle
out to scale the selection horizontally to the bounding box edge to scale parallel to the bounding box
and vertically at the same time. the selection in one direction. edge to skew the selection.

Press Shift, or activate the Constraint
Click a corner handle Press Option/Alt to apply option, to transform the selection
and drag around to the transformation around proportionally (maintaining the original
rotate the selection. the center point. height-to-width aspect ratio).

If you activate the Perspective Distort option in the Touch If you activate the Free Distort option, you can drag the
widget, you can drag the object’s corner transformation han- corner transformation handles to distort the selection . When
dles to change the object’s Constraint is active, you can
perspective . (The Constraint only drag the corner exactly
option is not available when horizontal or vertical from its
Perspective Distort is active .) previous position .

When the Free Transform mode When the Free Transform
is active, you can accomplish mode is active, you can
the same goal by clicking a accomplish the same goal by
corner handle, then pressing clicking a corner handle, then
Command-Option-Shift/Control-Alt-Shift and dragging . pressing Command/Control and dragging .

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