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Project 1
Celebrity Portraits
- Review objectives & requirements
Transformations
Tools for Transformations
Rotate/Reflect
To reflect, click once to set the start of an axis, then click again to set the end of an axis (otherwise it acts just like rotate)
Scale/Shear/Reshape
- Drag to use default reference point
- Click to set your own reference point
- Extra credit if you can figure out the reshape tool, I can't get it to work reliably…
Warp etc.
- So many possibilities we just don't have time to cover them…
Free Transform
- The handiest tool
- Rotate, Scale, Option for work from center, Shift for constraing
- Command skews
Object: Transform Menu
For numercial transformations
- Move
- Rotate
- Reflect
- Shear
- Transform Each
- Reset Bounding Box
Organizing
Masks
Clipping Masks
- Select things to mask and masking vector
- Masking vector must be the top layer
- Choose Object:Clipping Mask: Make
Layer Clipping Masks
- Masking vector must be the top layer in the layers folder
- Select the Layer folder in the Layer panel
- Click on the "Make/Release Clipping Mask" icon in the Layer panel

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