4. Transforming Objects

Lesson overview

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Add, edit, rename, and reorder artboards in an existing document.

• Navigate artboards.

• Select individual objects, objects in a group, and parts of an object.

• Move, scale, and rotate objects using a variety of methods.

• Work with smart guides.

• Reflect, shear, and distort objects.

• Adjust the perspective of an object.

• Apply a distortion filter.

• Position objects precisely.

• Repeat transformations quickly and easily.

• Copy to multiple artboards.

This lesson will take approximately an hour to complete. If needed, remove the previous lesson folder from your hard disk and copy the Lesson04 folder onto it.

You can modify objects in many ...

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