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Matching perspective with the Shear tool - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Matching perspective with the Shear tool
I've saved my progress as Bad right side.ai. And in this exercise, we are going to go ahead and take this Bad right side and make it good. So what I have done, I have got my White Arrow tool selected and I have clicked on one of the offending points here, and then I Shift-clicked on the other. And you can see that these corners are way too high, so the apex of the roof is just fine, the base of the shape is fine as well, because this little gaff right here is covered up by the baseboard; however these points will never do. And I can go ahead and adjust them in perspective. I can actually transform them in perspective using the Shear tool which is available from the Scale tool flyout menu. Now I was showing you how to use this tool to create isometric projections way back at the beginning of this chapter. It is not a perspective grid savvy tool, I want to emphasize that, however, it does a great job of simulating perspective on the fly and I will show you what I mean. What you have got…
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Perspective is all about real life1m 44s
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Assembling an isometric projection8m 5s
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Introducing Illustrator's Perspective Grid6m 8s
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Drawing a basic perspective cube8m 1s
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One-point, two-point, and three-point perspective8m 25s
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Creating automatically scaling box labels4m 41s
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Setting up a Perspective Grid6m 45s
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Perspective Grid tips and tricks6m 39s
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Drawing and editing a perspective shape5m 20s
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Shifting between planes on the fly5m 24s
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Creating a freeform shape in perspective7m 8s
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Working with perspective symbols8m 57s
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Matching perspective with the Shear tool2m 50s
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Rendering an off-plane path in perspective5m 7s
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Replicating symbols in perspective8m 12s
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Mass-modifying perspective instances2m 56s
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Adding and editing perspective text5m 37s
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Duplicating perpendicular shapes7m 17s
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Adjusting multiple shapes on a single plane4m 48s
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Creating a perspective column9m 23s
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Duplicating a series of perspective paths3m 20s
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