Perspective and free transform

[atomicargonaut]

I'm a bit new to illustrator and derive most of my graphics experience from photoshop (which im not current with). Anyway, back in the day I remember a free transform option in photoshop that would allow you to individually grab corner or mid-section and move it around separately. This was great for adding perspective to your drawings since you could manually change rasters around from square to say trapezoid. anyway i was wondering if theres something similar in illustrator as i'm having difficult adding perspective to drawings that have a high number of anchors.

thanks in advance.

[tromboniator]

There is a free transform tool in the tools panel. Check Illustrator help for explanation.

Peter

[JJLAPIN]

Adobe has a bunch of nice tutorials, check this one out.

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-illustrator-cs5/drawing-artwork-in-perspective/

[atomicargonaut]

thanks for the help. its been really appreciated. now however when free transform is selected its just behaving in the same manner the resize tool is. any ideas?

sorry for requesting to be coddled. i get easily frustrated.

[Larry G. Schneider]

After mousing down on a corner or side and starting your drag, try adding a modifier key (Cmd/Crtl or Opt/Alt or both) to achieve what you want.

[Monika Gause]

You could take a look at this tutorial:

http://www.khulsey.com/adobe_illustrator_free_transform.html

this covers the free-transform-tool in depth

[vilper]

1- Select the shape using selection tool

2- Select and hold the corner you want the perspective to change in.

3- Hold (Ctrl+Alt+Shift) [Command+Option+Shift in Mac] and drag.