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Day 15: Transforming & Moving Objects

By Tony Soh Posted on July 28th, 2008

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 learning illustrator in 30 days 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, 2008

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

2. 
   design2d February 6th, 2009

   Thank you! Those tricks were useful.

3. 
   David February 7th, 2009

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

4. 
   weza zizo March 22nd, 2009

   coool duplicate trick

5. 
   joseluis garabit April 3rd, 2009

   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, 2009

   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, 2009

   Sorry, nevermind… I got it.

8. 
   hihihihihihihihihihihhihihihihihi June 9th, 2009

   these are great!!!