A perspective quastion in illustrator cs2

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He kirupa people,

Does anyone know how i can change the perspective of objects and shapes in illustrator, i had looked ad the help manuel and the only thing i could find was that it is possible with the free transform tool (e), but it didn’t worked :S Does anyone know’s the anwser because it should be so simple :S In flash it’s a peace of cake.

Thanks!

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there are a lot of ways to change shapes, but I do agree that sometimes it is hard to find the proper tool: try all the menus !

try ctrl-shift-alt-D as well

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Thnks! But it didn’t worked :shifty:

If I am doing that thing with ctrl-shift-alt-D I am getting a transform option window. But I can’t find in that window any perspective tool… I search trough al the options and learnt some cool new things but still couldn’t find that simple perspective tool… :S It’s frusttrating that I cant do that simple thins. I mean its easy with the perspective tool in flash!

Aargh…

If im not clear, say it :slight_smile:

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I get it now and yes it’s true you can’t (as far as I know) change perspective that easily (the ‘shear’ tool available on the menu is a bit difficult to handle)

a solution is to use the 3d ‘rotate’ effect (then expand the appearance to get a normal shape):

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Ok, thnks alot.

I was aware of that feature but i was thinking that was a bad way to do that…

Yeah its very strange that it seems there isn’t any other method :S

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He that shear tool is also neat, but i don’t realy get it were its for. It can make cool curves but what is it exact?

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the shear tool is kinda weird… it works on an axis point (which you can move) and kinda scales and rotates around that. it has its uses (for example, if you want to draw a cube in vector, you can line 2 squares up next to each other and shear the 2nd one to get the “perspective”.

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What about the free transform tool. Click and drag corners while holding combinations of shift, alt, etc…

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Yeah that works fine for simple shape with not that many anker points. But a more complex form with many anker points, is a different story.

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jimhere how did you do that with the transform tool ?

I would’ve thought it works similarly to Photoshop (distort), but I can’t figure out why it can’t.