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How to reset your bounding box in Illustrator

How to reset your bounding box in Illustrator

From the course: Creative Quick Tips

How to reset your bounding box in Illustrator

Hi there. Welcome back to Creative Quick Tips. My name is Justin Seeley, and this week we're going to be taking a look at something called resetting the bounding box inside of Adobe Illustrator. If I go to the File menu and create a new file here, and just hit OK. Doesn't matter how big or how small. Basically, what I am talking about is, when you draw out a shape. Let's say that I am drawing a polygon. And, I'll draw this out and I'll knock down the sides until I have three sides. I'm going to hold down the Shift key so it's a perfect polygon like so. And then I'll switch to my selection tool. The bounding box is this area that encompasses the shape. And so when I rotate this object for instance, you may notice that the bounding box actually rotates with it. That may not be what I want to happen. Maybe I want the shape to be this direction, but I want the bounding box to be straight up and down so that I can easily scale the shape in any direction that I want. In order to do this…

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