Free Transform, please

I'd like to add perspective to this and that now and then.
And I'd like to be able to do it without using the 3D Rotate and Revolve effects or the New Perspective thing in CS5.
I just want to grab the corners and move them.
I can't believe we still can't do this.

It is not like it is in Photoshop, as you requested.
In Photoshop, you can move the corner(s) any number of times before "committing" the distortion. With Illustrator's Free Transform tool, as soon as you make the first move as Doug describes, the distortion bounding box resets to rectangular. This makes it a ridiculously tedious guessing game to do with it what can be easily and accurately done in three moves with the referenced Photoshop command. This has long been a feature request.
But mucking around with that particular tool for this purpose would be too limited. The far better solution would be for Envelopes to not insist upon having the curve handles associated with straight segments already extended upon creation. Give the user the choice as to whether handles are pre-extended when applying an Envelope. That improvement would accomplish what you want, but would be advantageous for countless other situations, too. (See FreeHand).
JET

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