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HELP! Free distort tool not working on images

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The jpg image is rasterized and in its own layer. I can rotate it, shear it, transform it... But the perspective warp will NOT apply! What am I missing?

Using current Adobe Illustrator 2020

Monika GauseCorrect answer

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Draw a rectangle the same porportions as the image. Distort it and then apply it as an envelope on the image.

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if you OBJECT>ENVELOPE DISTORT>MAKE WITH MESH and then set it to 1 row and 1 column, you'll be able to use the perspective distort and free distort in the free transform tool

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J2kLarsonite

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Wow, it's almost like Adobe should "just make it work". That's a lot of >>>>>>>>>>>

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Monika Gause

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Wow, it's almost like Adobe should "just make it work". That's a lot of >>>>>>>>>>>

By @J2kLarsonite

Illustrator is not a pixel editor. Use Photoshop

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Monika Gause

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Draw a rectangle the same porportions as the image. Distort it and then apply it as an envelope on the image.

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johnj84390463

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Great and concise answer, but just to note that this only works on an embedded image, and not on a linked one (the latter being the default way of bringing raster images into Illustrator).

From: https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator/envelope-distort-on-jpeg-not-working/td-p/10131985

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