Introduction to Adobe Illustrator
Course 2: Transforming Geometry: Distortion
By Aarón Martínez
About the video: Distortion
Overview
“In this unit, we will see a way to deform objects by freezing their transformation. We will fold a sheet to have different positions and speed up the creation of elements. ”
In this video lesson Aarón Martínez addresses the topic: Distortion, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 2: Transforming Geometry. Discover the pathfinder tool to create and transform shapes.
Partial transcription of the video
“ILLUSTRATOR COURSE 2 LESSON 7 Distortion In this lesson, we'll see the Free Transform tool to give objects a new position and freeze it. Let's start. This tool is relatively new. They just added it in the latest versions of Create Cloud. It's used a lot to move things in Photoshop, where it's called Puppet Warp. And here we will find it as Free Transform. So, let's add it directly to our toolbar. Remember, with click-hold. If this blue rectangle appears, it docks onto that group of tools, and one line means it will be docked between those two separately. We'll quickly create a shape, a leaf...”
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Course summary for: Course 2: Transforming Geometry

Aarón Martínez
By Aarón Martínez
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