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Introducing Envelope Distort - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Introducing Envelope Distort
I've saved my modifications as Shockingly complex starburst.ai. It's found inside the 25_liquify_envelope folder. In this exercise, I am going to introduce you to envelope-style distortions inside of Illustrator, but before I do I want to show you one more Liquify trick. My starburst is selected, by the way. We can't see the edges because I've hidden them. I am going to double-click of the Crystallize Tool icon, and I'm going to decrease both the Width and Height values to 400 points, and then I will click OK. Now check this out. Not only can you click and hold with these tools in order to modify a starburst, but you can also drag, if that appeals to you. You can make an absolute mess of a perfectly good shape in milliseconds doing so. Now that's not really what I'm looking for, so I will press Ctrl+Z, or Command+Z on the Mac. I will press Ctrl+H, or Command+H, in order to see those selection handles, and then I am going to click and hold for a moment in the center of the shape, like…
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The best of static and dynamic adjustments58s
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Adding wings to a horse in Photoshop6m 52s
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Introducing the Warp tool6m 29s
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Brush size, Detail, and Simplify8m 24s
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The Twirl, Pucker, and Bloat tools6m 13s
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The Scallop, Crystallize, and Wrinkle tools5m 55s
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Creating a mind-blowing custom starburst4m 29s
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Introducing Envelope Distort5m 21s
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Editing the contents of an envelope5m 20s
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Warping an envelope mesh5m 20s
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Liquifying the contents of an envelope7m 7s
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Creating and editing an envelope mesh7m 59s
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Blending an envelope into a background4m 35s
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