From the course: Illustrator: Perspective Drawing

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Precise movement

Precise movement

- Another option is to move your objects in a precise, perpendicular movement. To do this, I'll need to double-click the required plane widget using the perspective selection tool. In this case, I wanna select this part of the building and I wanna bump it out about 50 points from the edge. All I have to do is find my perspective plane widget for the right plane. The easy way to do this is follow your perspective vanishing point all the way to the end, to the widget. Double-click and it gives you the right vanishing plane options. I'm gonna choose 50 points and I'm gonna tell it to move the selected objects. When I hit OK, I'm met with a less than desired result. This is a known issue inside of Illustrator CC 2014. When you have multiple objects, even if they're grouped, and you use the precise movement, it'll consolidate all the colors into one flat color. Your only option is to select each individual object and move it or undo and use the number five key to manually pull out into a…

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