Working with tools of mass distortion
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Painting with distortion: The Liquify tools
- Getting into shape: Envelope distortion
- Featured Match-Up: Envelopes vs. the Warp effect
- Adjusting envelope distortion settings
- Editing envelopes and their contents
- Releasing and expanding envelopes
Releasing and expanding envelopes
At any time, you can select an existing envelope and choose Object > Envelope Distort > Release, which returns the artwork to an undistorted state. In addition, you can choose Object > Envelope Distort > Expand, which applies the Envelope distortion to the artwork itself. You can then edit the distorted paths freely (Figure 15) although you won’t be able to edit or change the Envelope distortion itself after this point.
Figure 15: When you expand an envelope, the distortion is applied permanently to the artwork, as seen here, in Artwork Preview mode.
Where to go from here
For more information about Illustrator CS2, see the following:
- Migrating from FreeHand to Illustrator: A Technical Resource by the Experts at Adobe
- Enhance an object’s appearance with Live Effects by Mordy Golding
- Map artwork to 3D surfaces with Illustrator CS2 by Mordy Golding
