{"id":3513,"date":"2012-06-21T08:47:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T12:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elwinlee.com\/blog\/?p=3513"},"modified":"2014-11-06T16:33:46","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T21:33:46","slug":"illustrator-free-transform-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/illustrator-free-transform-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Illustrator: Free Transform Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Free_Transform_01.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Free_Transform_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" height=\"70\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Free_Transform_01.jpg 530w, https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Free_Transform_01-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a>One thing that was always confusing in online tutorials was how to move an object in perspective using the Free Transform Tool. The Free Transform Tool (E) is located somewhere in the middle of the toolbar (see picture).<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s weird to control the free transform tool and it&#8217;s not very intuitive. The way to do it is to <strong>CLICK<\/strong> and then press <strong>CTRL<\/strong>. The sequence is very important. The free perspective transform won&#8217;t work if you switch it around; ctrl + click, it will result in a regular transform. <\/p>\n<p>So remember the sequence &#8220;<strong>CLICK + CTRL<\/strong>&#8221; to transform in free perspective using the Free Transform Tool (E).<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Gato_Free_Transform_Tool.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Gato_Free_Transform_Tool.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"550\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Gato_Free_Transform_Tool.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Gato_Free_Transform_Tool-300x99.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Gato_Free_Transform_Tool-768x253.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that was always confusing in online tutorials was how to move an object in perspective using the Free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[429],"tags":[2153,591,689,1312,1611,1979,2144,2145,2146,2147,2148,2149,2150,2151,2152],"class_list":["post-3513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","tag-confusing","tag-mouse","tag-tutorial","tag-object","tag-control","tag-free","tag-illustrator","tag-transform","tag-tool","tag-perspective","tag-click","tag-ctrl","tag-sequence","tag-move","tag-distort"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Gato_Free_Transform_Tool.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mtRf-UF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4093,"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513\/revisions\/4093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}