Adobe Illustrator Class 8 Learn Scale, Shear, Reshape and Free Transform Tool (Tech Learning 4U):

Assalamualaikum,

Welcome to Tech Learning 4U.

i am your teacher Zohaib, today we are starting class no 8th

and today i will make this class little bit short

and it will not so much details but

but there many interesting things here and they are very useful tools

which i have to tell you because they are most important for your work

right

aah, so let's come and start

so today we have scale tool ,

shear tool and reshape tool

if you see here in those tools which have a small arrow attached to it ,

it means they have some more tools inside

so you can also do that

here in the last of this tool there is an arrow,

click here

so it will give a separate tool bar

i mean a small tool bar will open separately

so let see what is the work of this scale tool,

for example i said you last time that

i said that we can rotate our object by selection tool,

In the same way,

we can scale our object

by selection tool but

you have a scale tool here which is given separately

and yes here something will different

but this is very useful and very interesting thing so let see

first thing is that in this scale tool you will get

same pivot point which

you had got in your rotate tool but of course we will not rotate here

we will scale here

if i take my scale tool and then i will do click & drag on any object

then see it is becoming small

and you can change this in any strange shape widely

i mean you can do this small , big, long ,

i mean whatever you like you can do this

but if you will press shift then it will work in constrained manner

and here also you can do horizontal and vertical

but here it will little bit in controlled way

but if you will not press then it will work very different (fluid) or you can say uncontrolled way

and you can also say this that it is

working in organic way

so here what is the work of pivot point here

so see here pivot point is same as , i mean if i click here

and i will make it smaller then see

it is becoming smaller in this direction

ok , i think this is not so difficult to understand because you all are now familiar with rotate tool

and pivot point is very much familiar with you now

and you know how to use this pivot point and it's work

one more interesting thing is that like in rotate tool

you can copy there by clicking with

your pivot point while rotating

here also you can copy it , see here i pressed

both the keys alt and shift and see I

when i will put this here and release it

so see here a copy is generated here

and if i will press control + D same as i did in rotate tool then

it will make further copies of it

and which is

quite interesting, Right. Ok

ahh

and most important thing in scale tool is

i don't use scale tool for this particular purpose

instead

i use this tool for some other work for example

you have a rectangle here

and you are selecting this two points

from upward position by Direct selection

you can do this on two paths, i mean

here is a complete shape and you

you can also do scaling on two anchor points of this shape

so what is the use of scale here, you selected your scale tool

and you want to simply spread this or

you want to decrease this

and remember one thing,

i selected here two anchor points here, Ok

if you will select this then this scale will be applied on the whole object

so how we are selecting this ? by direct selection ok

and what if i mean how we will use this when we will have multiple objects

i made a square here

and i made some copies of this

so

alright and i selected all the upper

anchor points of these all boxes

and with my scale tool, i made them smaller

and see

this time our pivot point was in center

so all are shrinking and coming towards center

but if i put my pivot point here

and i will make them smaller form this side then see

you can also scale this in this way also

and look very interested things is made

so let me select only fill so you will get more clear about this

and you will understand this more easily

and

i selected this all points with my direct selection tool

and with my scale tool, i put my pivot point here

and see i am making this small

like this way

and if you will not press shift then also

it will move in an axis because we had restricted this with our pivot point

and we had only selected our upper anchor points so only upper part will move here

and if we go up and down then also no difference will appear here

alright and in the same way

if i will select this and i want to make them larger

so we can easily make this larger

see it is showing very beautiful perspective and we will read one point perspective,

two point perspective, we will learn them also

but not now

alright there is also one more work of scale tool

remember we had made mango in our class 2

and i am making mango again

and i want to explain a small part of it

if i made a oval and

and i want this upper anchor point

i mean i want to increase it's width

so you can do this work

by your scale tool also

which means if select one point which must have these tangent or curve handles

right

that will spread so i selected one point

and with my scale tool, i am increasing it's breadth

but we don't want to increase so much for our mango

we just need to do a little bit broad

and you people know what to do

so i did just little bit like this from here

and i did this from here and that's it

ahh. It's our Black mango

alright

next tool which is coming in front of us is Shear tool

Shear tool

see in our direct selection

you can select two points and you can drag it like this

this thing is called shear

but this is good for only one object

if i have multiple objects for example

we have many boxes

like this

and i am taking vertical copies also

alright ok

if i take whole design, see these all are separate boxes

if i select all the upper parts with my direct selection and then i will drag them

then see only upper part will move

i want this whole object to be slanted all together

i mean little bit sheared shape

so here we can use our shear tool

so select all of them and take your shear tool

and see this, it is very easy to do

you can shear all your objects together

and here there is no details about this

and i don't want to go in details and i just want to make this class small

ok but in the end i will make a interesting thing for you peoples

so

you people will have something for practice

i know you need something excited, i know my students love it

when i make something for them

so next our tool is reshape tool

and reshape tool will give you some

interesting result while working

it will help you to reduce some steps

but i don't use this but if you think

it is useful for you then you must use this

so let me tell how it's work but first of all

i want to tell you something else related to this

see if i add a point with my pen tool and then

with direct selection i move this point here

alright and

then with my anchor point tool or

you can say with my convert anchor point tool, i made a curve like this

see here we had take 3 steps

reshape tool will do this

same work in 2 or 1 step but for this it is necessary to

select this simple path by your direct selection tool

see here only this path is selected

and other no parts are selected

i just selected this with my direct selection tool

so select your reshape tool and drag it and

see it is automatically

adding an anchor point as well as

it will give you a curve also

so see in the same way we can do this from here

and i don't need to select this anymore

from here it will do

all the things automatically

so i am clicking here and moving this towards inward direction like this

and i am also clicking here and moving this here

see some interesting thing is made

see in reshape tool just remember one thing that

i mean make sure only

one anchor point is selected otherwise

while moving by dragging all the shape will move

so see here

it is added and if you select this and move then

whole shape will move

so simply do one thing

aahh

whenever you want to use reshape tool then

please select one path by your direct selection

and after that

you can add curves in it

which is very easy ,like this, like this

if you want your points in very equal and proper manner then

i will suggest you to do your work along with your guides

it will be very easy for you and i said you earlier that

i don't find this a controlled tool

so that's why i use this very rarely

so i use this tool very less but if you want to use this you can use it

if you like something in this then you can use this

so it was very necessary that what was the purpose of this tools

so you can understand this why this tool is used

this is one thing and now another thing is that

as i said that we will make

some interesting thing with our scale tool

lets start , i said you that today's class is small

but i will make some interesting things for you

i will teach you something which will be very interesting for you guys alright ok

ok i am making

a simple rectangle here

and lets add some gradient in it and now you people knows

how to use gradient so

let color it and i am using my work space which i made in my last class

i am loading that

and i want to add some color here

let's see which color is this

alright this is good

and i am applying this color as a gradient here

and

i made a copy of it and this is something dark

so i am adding a lighter tone here

ok

like this

this is little bit cylindrical gradient

and i am spreading this little bit

alright

i removed it's stroke

and i am zooming in for you

here i am making a box

so you guys had already learned all the things

which will be needed here so i am opening align panel from here

alright and

and i am doing one more thing is that

i am taking one more copy

little bit larger

remember one thing whenever i am making this larger ,

i am doing this with pressing Alt key

so it will increase

from both sides proportionally

alright and i want to

add some shadows below them

so do one thing that

here i made a box

and here i am not changing any color and

i am telling you a new thing to you guys

so open your transparency panel from windows

alright and come below

and i just open transparency and

we will study this in details but not now

just see that i made a simple box here and let me show you that this is simply a box

made by my rectangle tool

and by default same gradient is showing here which i used in making this pillars and i am making this smaller

and i am doing simply that

i am changing it's mode to multiply

and if you want then you can down it's opacity from here

so it will look like little darker here

like this and you can also make it smaller

ok

alright and i want one more here

make it smaller

and i am copying this all things

and

i rotated like this and

i put this here

so do zoom in and fit this properly

see my smart guides always guide me

that i am doing this right or not

sometimes i don't need to align anything because my smart guides are enough for this

so my art baord is little bit smaller

so i am making this larger

or you can change your art board into landscape

so i need little bit wide art board

so i just took my art board tool

see here some options are coming that if you want to then you can change your page sizes etc

but i just want to change it's orientation

now it is portrait mode so i just want to change this in landscape mode

alright

i made a column same like pillars

ok

i am making one more box above it

ok

this

and

i am taking a copy of this and putting it here

ok

and i am selecting all and making them group

by pressing control + G

see this is like i mean you can say that

we have two pillars here

so what we are going to do ?

scale tool will help here

it will give a most interesting result here

let us take our scale tool and

see our pebble point is locating in the center now

there is no issue due to it so let it be on the center

and i am making it small from here

ok

alright

and you can do it by pressing shift also

ok

like this and i am also pressing alt

so it will generate a copy with it ok

and now if i will press control + D see it will give us a interesting result

something very interesting thing is made here

see a corridor thing

this is very simple , there is no rocket science used here

and

and yes some little things i want to tell you that

i made this and i also applied gradients here

if you put it like this while making it small

i mean here on the top position then

remember one thing it will show on the upper position i mean top most

and you have to do send to back

but that's not a big problem

i made some copies by pressing control + D

this are so close to each other and looking nice but

but if you see it carefully then you will notice

that they all are overlapping on each other

so do one thing and i selected all of them from here

and i did send to back and let me tell you short cut of send to back

Control + shift + [

ok i mean left square bracket

it will do send to back directly but remember one thing that this is not applied on all of them

now i have to deselect this so i will press shift and i will click left button of mouse

and then again send to back

again shift + click and send to back

also again shift + click and send to back

so you have to work little bit if you want to make some thing good

don't think why we are doing so many works

ok and i am doing send to back one by one

control + shift + [

control + shift + [

control + shift + [

control + shift + [

control + shift + [

control + shift + [

control + shift + [

control + shift + [

control + shift + [

that's it see it is completed

these are now properly arranged

you can also add some background behind it if you want

but i am not so interested to make this with a background

i mean arrange this with background

but you got the idea

do some handwork and i am dam sure you will make some interesting thing with this

one more bonus i want to give you

let me delete this or no let me do one work

let me take a new file and

let me do some work on it so i take a copy of it

and i will pasted it on a new file

and i am taking landscape orientation from here

i did ok and i pasted here

that is control + C and then control + V

alright now

so i am removing all the colors from here

so i want to tell you one thing and

i made this flat black design and i don't have to do send to back here

see this simple black color and

you can take any color like grey or whatever you like

just keep it flat and

but see this multiply will overlap

but no problem its ok

in scale tool

the pivot point will do some interesting thing

actually

it is same as vanishing point. and what is vanishing point ?

in perspective when things go form one to point (near )to other point (far) and

they meet each other at some place (point)or end at that point

that is known as vanishing point

here in this Technic this point will play an important role here

this is playing the role of

station point

what is the station point ? the point where you are watching this

for example if am watching this by lying in the ground

that is watching from this point and i am in this place

then see when i will take its copy

like this

and i will do control +D then it will generate copy

see it is visible to you such as you are watching this while lying on the ground

and alright in the same way

and i watching this hanging above ,

somehow suppose that i am hanging above

and i am making this smaller

like this and then control + D

see you angle is changed now

you are watching everything from above

similarly

if i am watching this left side from here

then the whole corridor will be visible to us like this

ok

remember what i am doing .

So let me tell you once more

so may be i showed you at very speed way so let me tell you once more

i am just taking scale tool and

i am adjusting pivot point by clicking it

here is my pivot point

and with pressing alt + shift i am making this smaller

and i released my mouse button and then

control + D ok

it is so simple is that

alright then let us see

our next tool very quickly

next our tool is Free transform tool

see you will think that as

with my selection tool i am doing rotate , scale and increasing or decreasing size

exactly

your free transform tool will do the same thing ok

but the interesting thing is that a separate panel opens in front of you with some more option

that is extra things are given

we will discuss this but let us see first what it will do

you can do scale up and scale down from here

and if you want to

then you can rotate this also from these tool

and you can do 2 or 3 things

which will be applied by this tool bar

when you will select this then it will open automatically itself

alright so first one is constrained

so if i will on this and resize it then see i am not pressing any shift here

and if i do anything it will be constrained

so what do you mean by constrained

constrained means it's width and height proportion will be same

as we do this with pressing shift

exactly same thing will be applied here but without shift

here a link is coming here and it is written constrained here

so it's width and height will constrained in proportion

so what we say constrained in urdu ?

i don't know

i don't know

i don't remember it now

so please check this in dictionary

next you have

see free transform is by default selected here

see here is perspective distort and

if i will take this and i will take this little bit below then see

it is going up automatically from upward position also

ok

alright

similarly if i will take it inside it will make it from up and down

and if will apply this in width then it will change the width also

ok alright this is perspective distort

lastly you have free distort

which mean you can easily

i mean

you can do this with taking your points

i mean you can distort your object or shape like this

so now i am taking only one object

so it is not looking so interesting here

let's see if we have some more objects then what will be the result of that

so i am making some multiple boxes

which i had made earlier also (in class 1)

alight and i selected this

now i am selecting my free transform tool

now if i will come at my perspective

by selecting this free transform tool

so click and drag like this

so it will look like this ok

and if will click here and

spread it like this or do like this then

this is looking very interesting i mean it is made something like a floor

it is showing very interesting perspective ok

but if will take free distort

then some different things will made by this

remember one thing

i am doing this different objects all together

because i had selected them all together

and with this tools

you can spread them like this

i hope this things will he helpful for you

now you can use them creatively

and you can make a whole room for showing me by this tool

so please use them and it is very useful things

so today i am ending this class till here

please share it with your friends

we will make some interesting things at that day

So THANK YOU SO MUCH