From the course: Adobe Illustrator: Tips and Techniques
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Transforming vector shapes - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Adobe Illustrator: Tips and Techniques
Transforming vector shapes
- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll showcase a few ways to transform vector objects in the midst of the creative process and discuss common vector-based scenarios you've probably experienced, and demonstrate how to address them. So we're creating a motif and we created this rectangular shape, or started with a rectangular shape, just selected the bottom right-hand anchor, brought it in, just add an angle here. Now, if I wanted to extend this so it's wider, I've dropped a guide here, I can just go ahead and drag, select these two anchors, hold the Shift key down, and this will allow me to slide these over until it snaps to where I want 'em. That's easy. That's a no-brainer. It's because it's all 90 degrees. The more you can build any content on 90-degree angles, the easier it's going to get, but that's not always the case. There's times when you're working on motifs and part of it is going to be at an angle, and that makes it a little hard at times and more time-consuming to do because…
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