Free Transform Envelope function available in Actionscript?

I'm looking for a way to warp or distort an object with
actionscript. I'm aware of the matrix transformation function, but
that isn't what I'm after. The matrix transform only scales, skews
or rotates, but I'm looking to actually distort the object (like
Illustrator warp or envelope function).
Obviously, I can distort an object with the Free Transform
tool by selecting the envelope option, but I'd like to do it
interactively. I've been digging thru the actionscript docs, but I
don't see anything that jumps out at me.
Any assistance or direction someone can give me would be
greatly appreciated.
Sherm

Grant Skinner did some fire-and-distortion-thing. He also
publishes the sources, maybe it helps:
G.Skinner
Fire-Effect
cu Markus

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CS3 Free Transform Tool does not work at all for distortion

I tried everything, worked with vector objects of different configurations and rasterized objects. Nothing works. When I press Free Transform Tool and go to bounding box corner it become rotate or resize tool. When I click a little bit inside the bounding box and hold Command Key (I tried many keys and without keys) it just moves the whole object, it did not select just one point that I need. Envelope Mesh does not work for the same reason, but I do not need mesh tool. I have Illustrator 13.02, Mac OS 10.4.11
The Free Transform Tool functions exactly as the main selection tool. Please help.

I STILL cannot get this to work. I have tried everything suggested in this thread. I have followed the directions in the help menus explicitly. I have tried grouping, ungrouping. I have tried it on type, on type changed to outlines, on simple rectangles. Without success.
When I try to use the free transform tool and hover over a corner of the bounding box, I get either a double-headed corner arrow, a rotation arrow, or a move arrow. Using the first two, dragging the point and then holding down the control/command key results only in a scaling of the object.
Should I restart? Should I re-install? What should I do?
Best,
Fielden

Free Transform Manipulation through Actionscript

Hi all,
is there a way to manipulate the free transform x-wise and y-wise using Actionscript rather than the traditional design approach?

yes, you can use the matrix class:
var t:Transform = mc.transform;
var m:Matrix = new Matrix()
m.b=2;
m.c=1.3;
mc.transform.matrix = m;

Unable to Free Transform

Hi all
I have lost my free transform handles on all objects. I can
transform by typing in values but when selecting Free Transform
after right clicking (or using drop down menu), nothing happens. I
had recently installed a few extensions, namely Toon Titan, Nested
Timeline and IK Motion. I have uninstalled IK Motion and disabled
the other two but to no avail. can anyone help with this? Thanks!
Brent

wow - are you kidding? that is amazing! so remove the tool
from the toolbox and it renders it
useless throughout the IDE? Added this to my list - surely it
is a bug.
oh and yer very welcome :)
catsqueezer wrote:
> Okay, figured it out mine own self. Seems if you remove
the Free Transform
> button from the Tool Bar, it removes the function all
together so you can't
> even access it through the menus. How stupid is that. I
had used that slot in
> the toolbar for the IK Motion picker as I never click on
the Free Transform
> button in the tool bar.
>
> If the Flash Dev team is listening... you may want to
revisit that. Thanks
> Chris for your help and i appreciate all the resources
you make available on
> character animation in Flash specifically. cheers
>

Free transform tool fail

Hello.
Im really frustrated with how the free transform tool works for me (or in that case, it doesnt work)
I am using Illustrator CS4 on a PC.
Adobe Help for that software states:
Select one or more objects.
Select the Free Transform tool .
Start dragging a corner handle on the bounding box (not a side handle), and then do one of the following:Hold down Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) until the selection is at the desired level of distortion
First of all Im unable to select anything with the free transform tool, so I use the regular selection tool first to select my object.
As you can see after selecting the object I have selected the free transformation tool, grabbed the corner and pressed Control Key on my keyboard (tried both keys as well). The transformation tool refuses to work as it does in Photoshop.
I have tried to reset my keybindings to Illustrator default.
I have tried first clicking the corner, holding it and then pressing down the CTRL without moving the mouse as was stated on some other forums googled with this issue.
I have tried setting my keyboard to American US in Windows.
As you can see the object is a very simple rectangle, its not a part of any type of group.
Im working on a european version of CS4 Master Collection bought in London UK.
I have tried this on a US version that I have at work, it has the same issue.
I have seen and followed the instruction from various YouTUbe movies and the tool simply wont comply to my commands.
I am pissed.
Halp pleez?

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Placed raster images will not distort with the Free Transform Tool.
Linked (as opposed to embedded) raster images will not distort.
If you enclose an embedded raster image in an Envelope (ex: Make With Mesh, 1 Row 1 Cell), then it can be distorted by the Free Transform Tool using the modifier keys, without having to dink around with the Envelope handles.
JET

All of a sudden the transform tool and free transform tool are grayed out and will not allow me to scale, rotate, or do anything to an image I just scaled?

I've been using Photoshop for years, but tonight I ran into an issue that I don't understand. I was working with a file that I had been working with for months. I added a new image and resized it to fit as I needed just as I always have (select layer with image > EDIT > TRANSFORM > SCALE.) All was working fine. I added a second image to the file I was working on (I added it by dragging it into the file from another window just as I had added the first image.) However, this time when I tried to select EDIT > TRANSFORM > SCALE this option was not available to me. Only the FREE TRANSFORM PATH or TRANSFORM PATH options were available. When I selected the SCALE in the TRANSFORM PATH menu (just to see what would happen) it started to scale a completely unrelated layer that DID have a path to it. However, the layer of my image was still selected and NOT the layer with the path. This image layer has no path even on it or around it in any way. I tried to select the folder layer and the same thing happened. It selected this one path and tried to scale it. I selected the layer I just previously scaled and tried to scale it again and it will only allow me to select the transform path option. I selected it to see again what would happen and once again it selected this completely unrelated path on a completely different layer. WHAT????? This makes absolutely no sense! I have tried restarting both my computer and PS and it won't stop happening! I really need to get this file finished and uploaded to my developer ASAP so I really hope that someone has some insight as to why this is happening.

hedger,
How do you expect anyone to help when we don't know a darned thing about the file, abut your setup, exact version of Photoshop and your OS, machine specs, etc.?
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If you give complete and detailed information about your setup and the issue at hand,
such as your platform (Mac or Win),
exact versions of your OS, of Photoshop (not just "CS6", but something like CS6v.13.0.6) and of Bridge,
your settings in Photoshop > Preference > Performance
the type of file you were working on,
machine specs, such as total installed RAM, scratch file HDs, total available HD space, video card specs, including total VRAM installed,
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if having issues opening raw files also the exact camera make and model that generated them,
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someone may be able to help you (not necessarily this poster, who is not a Windows user).
a screen shot of your settings or of the image could be very helpful too.
Please read this FAQ for advice on how to ask your questions correctly for quicker and better answers:
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Thanks!

Free Transform Problem in CS5.1

I am haveing an issue when trying to use the Free Transform funtion in Photoshop CS5.1. After pressing command+T, the bounding box appears, but when I attempt to resize, the program becomes unresponsive. After a minute or two I can cancel the Free Transform and the program become responsive once again. Seems to be more of an issue when trying to transform more than one layer at once.
I am on a 1 year old MacBook Pro with 16GB, I have 10 GB of free space.
I am on OS X 10.7.5 (recently installed this upgrade and this may be part of the issue.)
I am in 64-bit mode. My memory usage set at 70%
The cache tile size is set to 1024K
I have reset my settings, ran all available updates.
One suggestion was to try to update my vidoe card. My card specs are:
Video Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
Video Card Renderer: ATI Radeon HD 6750M OpenGL Engine
After visiting the AMD site, found that they do not have an update for 10.7.5 and do not have the HD6750 listed for Mac.
Any help is appreciated.
Edit: Also, cannot move the image once I press command+T.
(Or at least it make the program unresponsive for a while)
Update: Uninstalled entire design suite and re-installed. Still having the same issue.

You only have 10 GB of free space? You should have much more than that with the settings you are using. When you launch Photoshop is grabs it's scratch disk, space on the hard drive that backs up the RAM usage. It mirrors it exactly. So you are using 70% of 16 GB RAM, which would be 11.2 GB. This means the initial scrtach disk size Photoshop creates on launch is also 11.2 GB, which is larger than the free space you have available. You will need to free up some disk space to get things working. Or at the very least drop your RAM usage to something more managable by your available resources, like 30% (so you leave some space for other processes).
Also, have you tried with smaller files?

Free Transform Rotation Issue - Layer rotates/moves by itself after clicking on it?

Hey all. Since the last update, I have been experiencing this weird issue while using Free Transform. Sometimes, after I invoke Free Transform and then click on the layer I am transforming, it seems to rotate by itself. Usually clockwise. It happens really quickly. It's almost like my mouse cursor is off center when I click on the layer and the it's like the layer rotates to match the location of my cursor. It's so weird and quite difficult to describe. I have also experienced the layer moving quickly to the right after clicking on it while in the Free Transform state. I have tried 2 different mice and experienced the issue on both of them. I have also tried different mousing surfaces and experienced the same thing. It doesn't happen every time but just sometimes. It started doing it since the latest update. It's really annoying. Just wondering if anyone else has this issue.
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You may have downloaded an app that kick started something that caused the system to go whacko (how's that for a technical explanation) and maybe resetting the system will take care of it.
Good luck. I hope it solves your issue!

Free transform help

am using cs3....am trying to free transform but for some reason on the menu i am unable to use either the didstort or perspective function....what do i need to do to make them active??
THANKS!!

Are you trying to transform a Smart Object layer? In CS3, you can't use the Distort or Perspective transformations on Smart Objects. You will need to rasterize the Smart Object first. Let me know if this isn't what's causing your problem.

Free Transform in Illustrator?

Hi, I have a problem. I can`t find how to free transform in Illustrator like in Photoshop.
Here is an example: I want to put a letter on all sides of an isometric cube. So I have to free transform the letter without any perspective effect.
Can someone help me? It seems to be easy to do this but I really can`t find the perfect option.

thinking about it, envelope distort would probably be easiest for your case:

Freezing when using free transform and more

I'm on a 12 core Westmere PM w/20g RAM running 10.6.8. with a standard Mac scrollwheel mouse. I have a Wacom tablet attached but it hasn't been used in weeks.
In the past week, I have encountered two mouse related freezing episodes that I cannot duplicate on purpose.
The symptoms are things like Transform handles that won't respond to mouseclick/dragging but responding to numerical entry. Or Liquify opening but unresponsive to any input whatsoever other than the ability to close the panel from a mouseclick. Or converting a layer to a Smart Object….applying a filter, and finding that the filter won't respond to mouse input. It's like arbitrary mouse input freezing or something.
I called this a "half crash" because the program still remains somewhat operable (files can be closed, saved or opened, numerical entry is possible in some instances or mouse clicking works on higher level meaning or window opening/closing) but in general, a great deal of functionality is disabled. Only a relaunch of Photoshop solves the problem. I've never seen anything like this in Photoshop before. The only other thing open at the time was CS6 Illustrator.
I am writing about this because I have no idea what sets this off and was wondering if anyone else has bumped into it. If you have, you might want to mention it here, as these intermittent glitches are a pain to track down without a number of users providing clues. Normally I wouldn't post something like this….but since it is a v.1 version of CS6….I thought it worth mentioning.

I skipped CS5 and went from CS3 to CS6 - this is the standard Free Transform menu in CS6:
You're likely to get a quicker answer to your question if you post in the Photoshop users forum - http://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop - where there are a number of people still using older versions.
Good luck,
Clinyon

Making all named member functions of an actionscript class avlbl to ExternalInterface automatically

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I am trying to custom-tweak the as3 compiler to generate instructions to register all functions in the ClassDefinitionNode to ExternalInterface.
I guess the operation will have to be performed somwhere between the analyze sequences of the compiler, but am not quite able locate where.
I have this codelet (executed for all constructors, for every non-constructor)
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                        new LiteralStringNode(
                                NodeMagic.getClassName(clNode)+ "." + functionCommonNode.identifier.name), 0);
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Any assistance would be appreciated!
Thanks!

Making all named member functions of an actionscript class available to ExternalInterface automatically :
I am trying to custom-tweak the as3 compiler to generate instructions to register all functions in the ClassDefinitionNode to ExternalInterface.
I guess the operation will have to be performed somwhere between the analyze sequences of the compiler, but am not quite able locate where.
I have this codelet (executed for all constructors, for every non-constructor)
                ArgumentListNode argListNode = new ArgumentListNode(
                        new LiteralStringNode(
                                NodeMagic.getClassName(clNode)+ "." + functionCommonNode.identifier.name), 0);
                //argListNode.items.add(new LiteralNullNode());
                argListNode.items.add(new IdentifierNode(functionCommonNode.identifier.name, 0));
                MemberExpressionNode mnode = new MemberExpressionNode(new IdentifierNode("ExternalInterface", 0),
                        new InvokeNode("addCallback",
                                argListNode),0);
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Any assistance would be appreciated!
Thanks!

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Hi all
I would appreciate some advice on a few questions I have regarding PS.
1) I intend to place an image I have been working on into another file in photoshop. To keep file size down and to keep as much quality as possible which is my best option? The options I see available to me are to save the file as a TIFF
and then duplicate the layer into the new file or to place the image as a smart object. Or is there a better way?
If I were to place it as a smart object in which format is best? I will not need to work on the original file once it has gone into the new file.
2) I have a subject matter in a raw file that is quite small and needs to be made larger once in photoshop. I see two options for me. First one is decreasing the resolution from 300 to something like 250 which will make im the subject matter the right size. The second option I see is to free transform the image in photoshop to make it larger.
I intend to print these files on A4 at a commercial printers.
Thanks

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Downsampling to upsample later is just nuts!
Re #1: "To keep file size down and to keep as much quality as possible" is an oxymoron. You get either or.
It's always best to work at the final output size.

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When I ue the Free Transform tool I can't use Step Backwards tough I can use Redo and Undo. I still can use Step Backwards outside of the Free Transform tool.

Hi there
When you're in Free Transform mode, you're not making any committed changes until you press the "Enter" key on your keyboard or click on the Commit icon (the checkmark) in the options bar. Once your change is committed, you can use the Step Backward or Step Forward functions.
To "step" backwards or forwards while in Free Transform mode, just use the Undo/Redo functions.
Cheers!
Kendall

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