Illustrator: On-Art Free Transform

Freedom is never truly free, unless you are talking about the Free Transform tool. Although the function hasn’t really changed much, it’s gotten a lot easier to use in this version of Illustrator CC, providing the user with many more useful visual cues and an onscreen widget as well.

• Choose the Free Transform Tool [E]
• An on screen widget with options will show up.
• Drag a corner of the bounding box of your selection to transform the art. Icons will dictate what kind of transform you are making.
• Constrain – Will maintain the aspect ratio of the object so it is sized porportionately. Only really applies to the Free Transform
• Free Transform – Allows you to chafe the width and height of the object, as well as rotate the object
• Perspective Distort – When dragging one corner, the opposite corner will converge or diverge as if in perspective.
• Free distort – drag any corner of anywhere