Effects on objects

Working with Envelop Tool:

Interactive Envelop Tool: is for shaping objects, including lines, artistic text, and paragraph text frames by applying envelopes to them.

Here is an example below of Envelop Tool.

. Type the text, say "Ebiz". Stretch it to make it bigger. Keep it selected.

. Click the Interactive envelope tool .

. Create an envelope with "single Arc" option in the property bar

. Stretch the center top node to the upward direction.

. The stretch get stretched in the form of single arc.

. You will notice that the node you stretched just now has two arrows along with it in the opposite direction.

. Try to move the arrows using the same cursor in any direction.

. You will notice that it does not move.

. You can move only the node, not those arrows.

. This means you have limited capacity to edit this kind of envelope.

. Now go back to the first step using undo option and apply the envelope using "Unconstrained" mode in the property bar.

. Stretch the same top center node upward and try to move those arrows to any direction using the same cursor.

. This time, you will notice that the arrows have no restrictions and you can move them smoothly to any direction as shown below.

Note: You can also create envelop by clicking Effects > envelop or by pressing Ctrl+F7.