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July 7, 2011
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Allow Free Distort like Photoshop

  • July 7, 2011
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In Photoshop, you can pull an image's control handles around to your heart's content, and fine tune the distortion to line up with a perspective grid. In Illustrator, you can only distort the bounding box of the whole shape, so once you move a single control handle, you lose control of one or more corners of the image, making precise distortions almost impossible. The best we have right now is the Effect > Distort & Transform > Free Distort tool, but there's no preview, so again, you can't line up the shape with a perspective grid.

Please make Illustrator's Free Distort tool like Photoshop's!

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    John Stanowski
    Inspiring
    July 7, 2011

    I second that. It's a glaring omission from the program.  (And, no, the new Perspective Tool is not a solution... that's just overkill.)

    July 7, 2011

    Oh yeah, there is that, too. But like you say, there's so much overhead in setting up the perspective grid, I never use it.