Free Transform Tools in Adobe Animate

Hi. This video we're gonna look at the transform tool. Transform tool is this guy here, I'm gonna select him. Now it's used for scaling and rotating. Uh, so what I'm gonna do is unlock these earlier layers  so I can play around with the little bit. So I'm gonna click on this crazy looking building here,  and you'll notice that the difference is we've got these  little edge bits, okay?

And, uh, there's a couple of things. If I grab any of the corners, can you see, I can kind  of stretch it any old sort of way in corner. Um, but what I want to do is hold down shift. If I hold shift, can you see it's scales,  it proportionately rather than kind  of like stretching it all sorts of ways. So often you wanna scale it  proportionately to make a bigger building. Great.

You'll notice that it scales from the center. It actually scales from this point here. Now, when you are new, you'll end up trying to move the,  say I wanna move this to the right here. You'll end up kinda grabbing the center and moving it. And actually it, you know, you, you'll meant to do this,  but you end up dragging this. Okay?

And this is the center of rotation. So it just means that if I move this down here  and now I scale it holding shift, can you see it scales from  that bottom corner there? If I scale it from, if I move it up here in the top left  and I try and use the exact same one,  can you see it scales in and outta there? So that's quite interesting. That point here when you are doing animations  and you want it to, um, enlarge or rotate on a point,  and you, this is the point here. It's gonna rotate from.

So that's scaling. Uh, there's a couple other things you can do  with a free transform tool. Um, ears, can you see if I hover it anywhere outta here? The cursor changes to this little kind  of round thing with an arrow. If I click and hold and drag it, it's gonna move it around. If I hold shift while I'm dragging it,  it will lock it into 90 degree angles.

Okay, so that's rotation. There's another one for skew. If I hover above any of these lines here,  can you see that double arrow? I click it and drag it. I can skew it. So I'm gonna go to edit undo.

Uh, the only last thing about the free,  free transform tool is that, uh, if I'm on the move tool  or the section tool, I want to go to the, um, quick way  to go into the transform tool is to tap the Q key. If I tap Q, it jumps to that tool there without me having  to go and click it, and I can start  doing my transformations. V is jumping to the selection tool  and you'll know which says V and Q, V and Q. And you'll notice over here that it's toggling  between V and Q. Okay? Um, you start learning some shortcuts when you are  reusing some tools over and over again.

Um, to know what the shortcuts are. You'll see here it's called the selection tool. And you see in the brackets there, it's got a V,  this one here has a Q. And if you're using the type tool, it's a T  and there's lots of ones in here. Um, just hover above them  and they'll tell you what the shortcut is. All right, uh, let's hit save and move on to the next video.

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