Live Free Distort
I would like to see the "Free Distort" effect be extended to work on the actual object, not going through a tiny dialog box that feels like I'm trying to apply it to a postage stamp. It's really difficult to apply a distorted shape to a larger area when I am guessing if a 1-pixel move of a tiny handle is going to make a difference or not. It would be amazing if four independent handles were on the actual art and allow me to move the corners exactly to the spot I want to place them at. It's a handy tool for the work I'm doing but would make my work much easier if it were more user-friendly. Right now it feels like a feature that is 1994-ish (and yes I was using Illustrator before then - still my favorite app of all time!)
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Joseph Gillibrand
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Ah the free distort tool...
Maybe the only Ai tool to feel like it's trapped in the 90s. Please, oh, please can we get an update to this function! I still have a lot of use cases for this tool and would love to see this done outside of a dialog box so you can see your edits in context and live. Going to a fiddly little dialog box where you can't see surrounding elements is not the one! Having a live, on-canvas version of it would definitely make adjustments more intuitive and contextual.
Great tool but need's bringing into the modern day!
Thanks,
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Quentin VAN RYSEGHEM commented
Possible de moderniser l'outil de distortion manuelle pour qu'il soit directement utilisable dans le plan de travail ?
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Oh yeah.
There is another request about this, but it’s more about improving the existing dialog, rather than rethinking the workflow: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/39689032And I can’t but repeat again that Stylism tool by Astute Graphics does it exactly like it’s needed, with live on-canvas controls.
