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Understanding the Free Transform Tool Constraint

ILLUSTRATOR FOUNDATIONS dragging transformation handles. When the cursor is over a Perspective Distort
The Free Transform tool
allows you to

change the shape of selected objects by
Free Transform
Transformation handles
The Touch widget, which you can use to
Free Distort
change the active transformation mode,
transformation handle,
appears when the Free Transform tool
the icon shows which
is active. To move the Touch bar in the
distortions can be made.
workspace, click away from the 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 corner transformation handles to distort the selection. When
handles to change the the Constraint option is
object’s perspective. (The active, you can only drag the
Constraint option is not corner exactly horizontal or
available when the Perspec- vertical from its previous
tive Distort option is active.) position.

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

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