Adobe Illustrator Tips, Tricks and Tutorials

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Resizing Tips for Illustrator 9 and 10
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Resizing Tips for Illustrator
Simple Resizing
This is the pencil from the Pencil Tutorial. When the pencil was completed it was pretty big for a web page so it needed to be resized. There are several ways to accomplish this.
The method used most often…
Since Illustrator is a vector program, resizing is as simple as selecting it with the selection arrow tool (the black one) and grabbing one of the corner handles on the bounding box.
Hold down the shift key to constrain the proportions and drag inward to the size you wish.
Scale it! The scale tool in the tool bar gives a lot of control for resizing. The same options may be reached from the menu: Object > Transform > Scale.
Double click on the scale tool icon in the toolbar to open its options.
Check Uniform if you want the object to keep its proportions when it’s scaled.
Check Non-Uniform if you want to scale differently horizontally and vertically. For instance, scaling a perfect circle 50% horizontal and…