4. Transforming Objects

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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 multiple transformations.

• Apply a distortion effect.

• Repeat transformations quickly and easily.

• Copy to multiple artboards.

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

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You can modify objects in many ways as you create artwork, by quickly and precisely controlling their size, shape, and orientation. In this lesson, you’ll explore creating and editing artboards, the various Transform commands, and specialized tools, while creating several pieces of artwork.