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Free Transform Options
ILLUSTRATOR FOUNDATIONS or skew a selection. shrink the selection horizontally and corner handle to rotate the selection.
allows you to change the shape of selected objects by dragging the bounding box handles.
The Free Transform tool
Depending on where you click and whether you press a modifier key, you can use this tool to stretch, shrink, rotate, distort,
Click a corner handle to stretch or
Click a center handle to stretch or
Click slightly outside a
vertically at the same time.
shrink the selection in one direction.
Click a corner handle, then press
Click a center handle, then press Click a corner handle, then press Command-Option-Shift/Control-Alt-Shift
Command/Control to skew the selection. Command/Control to distort the selection. to alter the perspective of the selection.
Press Shift and drag a handle to constrain the related transformation.
Press Option/Alt while making any For example, press Shift while dragging a corner handle to scale the
free transformation to apply it equally selection at the same proportional height and width (below left)
on both sides of the selection center. rather than scaling disproportionately (below right).
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