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Working with tools of mass distortion

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Mordy Golding

Mordy Golding

www.mordy.com

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Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Painting with distortion: The Liquify tools
  3. Getting into shape: Envelope distortion
  4. Featured Match-Up: Envelopes vs. the Warp effect
  5. Adjusting envelope distortion settings
  6. Editing envelopes and their contents
  7. Releasing and expanding envelopes
Created:
04 Oct 2006
User Level:
Advanced
Products:
Illustrator CS2 or later

Adobe® Illustrator® has a plethora of tools that can help you create crisp, clean paths with extreme precision. But there are times when a design calls for something less perfect, and when it is also appropriate to bend or stretch artwork to achieve a distorted effect. That’s where the distortion tools come into play.

You may have already caught a glimpse of Illustrator’s Warp effect. In addition, Illustrator contains a suite of distortion tools, dubbed the Liquify tools, and a feature called Enveloping, which allows you to squeeze artwork into a customized shape. Let’s take a closer look at these two distortion techniques.

Requirements

To follow along with this article, you will need the following software:

Adobe Illustrator CS2

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About the authors

Mordy Golding has been a production artist for print and the web for many years, and is an Adobe Certified Expert and Adobe Certified Print Specialist. At Adobe, he was the product manager for Illustrator 10 and Illustrator CS. A popular presenter at Macworld, Photoshop World and other worldwide events, Mordy is also the author of several books, including SAMS Teach Yourself Adobe Creative Suite All in One, The Web Designer's Guide to Color, and SAMS Teach Yourself Adobe Illustrator in 24 Hours. In 2003, Mordy was named a Champion of Graphic Design by Graphics IQ. Currently he serves as the founder of DesignResponsibly.com, teaching designers and printers how to successfully adopt today's new technology. Mordy is also the author of the Illustrator CS2 and Flash 8 Integration video training title published by lynda.com.

Excerpted from“Real World Adobe Illustrator CS2” by Mordy Golding © 2006. Used with the permission of Peachpit. To purchase this book, please visit adobepress.com.