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  Get resulting shape from effect distorted object?

  Posted by Ryan Hill on September 12, 2012 at 5:14 pm

  Say I have an object and I’ve applied an Effect -> Distort and Transform -> Free Distort.

  Is there a way to get the resulting distorted version of the shape out of there and into its own shape?

  How to explain. I can make a shape and then apply a distortion effect that gets me 90% of the way to the shape I want. But to do that last 10%, I want to be able to work directly with a path that’s shaped like what results from the distort effect.

  Does this make sense?

  Vincent Rosati replied 13 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Ryan Hill

  September 12, 2012 at 5:21 pm

  Wait, I think I found it, it’s “Expand Appearance?”
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  Vincent Rosati

  September 13, 2012 at 12:40 am

  You got it brother!

  Vince

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