Day 15: Transforming & Moving Objects

By Tony Soh

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In this lesson, you will learn how to quickly resize and rotate objects using the Transform functions. I will be showing some useful transform tricks to create random rotating objects using Transform Each function.

Resizing Objects

Method 1: Select the object with Selection Tool and the bounding box will appear. Select the corner handle and resize while holding Shift to constrain proportion.

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About The Author: Tony Soh

Hi. I'm the founder of Vector Diary. Illustrator is my passion and I have written numerous tutorials on illustrator helping people learn illustrator. My most popular tutorial on learn illustrator has been a hit. It makes learning illustrator so easy and has benefited more than 20,000 people worldwide. Also, I've revealed some of my secret techniques in the premium tutorials. So don't forget to check it out!

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1. 
   Khawla August 10th

   I liked the repeat trick. The duplicates will follow the direction of the drag.

2. 
   design2d February 6th

   Thank you! Those tricks were useful.

3. 
   David February 7th

   Great job.
   Didn’t know about rotating around a corner with the rotate tool

4. 
   weza zizo March 22nd

   coool duplicate trick

5. 
   joseluis garabit April 3rd

   i already know that trick because of Corel, thats why i would know if illustrator could do a geometric progression, I mean, this same last trick but recognizing the las change whit a similar progressionfor the next one. For example, I duplicate, then turn 30 degress the duplicated one, then command D to duplicated the turned one, IT WILL APPEAR THE NEW DUPLICATION TURNED PLUS 30 DEGRESS. AND EACH NEXT DUPLICATE (COMMAND+D) THE NEW ONE WILL KEEP TURNING. THAT IS VERY USEFUL.

6. 
   Justin Escamilla June 3rd

   I know about this tip from Corel as well, however, for some reason when I hit ctrl+d in Illustrator it creates a new one following the same rotation degree but the previous one goes away and I’m left with only the new one, is there a setting I need to change for duplicates or something? Like keep original?

7. 
   Justin Escamilla June 3rd

   Sorry, nevermind… I got it.

8. 
   hihihihihihihihihihihhihihihihihi June 9th

   these are great!!!

9. 
   felipe rodriguez espinosa August 14th

   THANKS

10. 
    Fahim July 10th

    I know this trick. This site could fully Free!!

11. 
    JJ August 26th

    Am I missing something? I thought this was a free tutorial? Why do I have to pay for basic membership? :S

12. 
    MichaelV November 29th

    Day15: A bit of a non event this one and large doses of disappointment too. Here I was, looking forward to another informative lesson when I find that to read the lesson (and all future lessons to Day30) I must be a PAID UP Member. I must admit I was not expecting this to come up in a FREE Course.

    It’s a pity too because I was just starting to get right into it all – now it’s been stopped – prematurely. Yes, I could become a member and carry on but this is now a matter of principle.

    You can read my suggestions to the owner of this site in the comments at the bottom of the Crash Course page. Look for the comment dated Nov 29th. Goodbye all.

13. 
    Marcelo dos Santos January 5th

    I understand that the teaching must be remunerated. But I also understand that in the introduction it makes opinion that will be 30 free basic lessons. I did not find likeable to arrive it half and to discover that I must pay for the remaining.
    I stayed disappointed with such position. I have one blog where education basic photograph. They are only three lessons, but they are free. Bye.

14. 
    Ahmed March 25th

    You had to ruin it. It was going so good, I actually learned so much and thank you for that. But I knew this was too good to be true.

15. 
    leon April 7th

    Following the tutorial half way and found out it need to pay. Forget about it.

16. 
    Starkly April 13th

    I share the great disappointment with other readers. Up to “day 15 lesson”, all lessons were very nice and more or less decently explained (I’ve found several “plot holes” though), but they were all BASIC. I really doubt that day 15 lesson is an advanced lesson that really takes time to explain.

    You could have taught people in here EVERYTHING basic, and then charge the advanced lessons, not disappoint everyone by suddenly charging the lessons while STILL in the beginner part. LAME

17. 
    Keyon April 13th

    That’s way more clever than I was epxetcnig. Thanks!

18. 
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    Too bad, it started well and lessons were well described. I cannot hide my disappointment to arrive on this page. You cannot expect someone with a beginner level to pay for 15 more beginner lessons (knowing that other website may offer them for free). Good bye and Good luck.

19. 
    unreal June 17th

    i love that everyone actually complains even when they’ve had 15 lessons for free, and the internet is LOADED with other free tutorials lol

    thanks for the lessons!!!!

20. 
    Javier June 29th

    Pay up screen at the middle of the tutorial?
    cheap tactic!

21. 
    ManicS August 8th

    I thought this was a FREE tutorial! Very cheap tactic indeed – especially as these are very basic tutorials. They are not full “lessons” and I was certainly not expecting to be charged half way through! If this had been stated at the beginning I doubt there would be many people complaining.

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23. 
    Joanne Taylor October 7th

    I am not disappointed because i REALLY am a basic student! So what i see is what i am getting – i started with nothing so this is great. Thanks.

24. 
    Win Swe November 24th

    Very good Training
    Thanks

25. 
    Marivic So December 13th

    i just paid. and i think 12$ for a year is just very cheap. its reasonable that paying lots of dollars for tuition fees where all you get after graduation are concepts. so yeah, thanks vectordiary -for having this cheap. i’ll be finishing this tute. and hope by 2012 i can illustrate anything iwant

26. 
    Marivic So December 13th

    *what i mean is: this is reasonable THAN paying lots of dollars for tuition fees. typo

27. 
    Lakas December 16th

    is this for real? i have to pay this…come on. that’s rude

28. 
    Francis Boudreau January 7th

    Thank you for the first 15 days of free tutorial.

29. 
    Speaking up January 23rd

    Thanks for the knowledge, but it’s all about ethics and principals.