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The Twirl, Pucker, and Bloat tools - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
The Twirl, Pucker, and Bloat tools
In this exercise, I am going to introduce you to the next three Liquify tools which are Twirl, Pucker, and Bloat. I have gone ahead and saved my progress as Repeatedly warped horse.ai, and as you may recall, my horse is selected, but I've hit the selection outlines. So it's ready for more warping anytime I like. But before I start, I want to darken up my horse. I want it to look pitch black against this blue background. So I will go over to the color panel, make sure that my fill is selected, and then go to the flyout menu and switch to CMYK. And then I will dial in 50% for the Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow values, and I'll leave the black value set to 100%, and now we've got a rich, black horse, which is just the way it ought to be. I am going to switch to the Twirl tool, and I'll go ahead and Shift+Alt+Drag like so--Shift+Option+Drag on the Mac-- to create a big, huge brush, and I'll click on the horse's face just ever so briefly. And you can see I end up twirling the face in a…
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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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