2/18/2023 0 Comments Photoshop shortcat transform scale![]() ![]() (For a list of all Photoshop Top 40 videos thus far, click here.) ![]() This happens to be image #7010536 from artist Leo Blanchette. I love it!Īs usual, the 3D rendering of the adorable green-and-white robot comes to us from image vendor Fotolia. Which just came out! I mean, what are the odds that this Photoshop Top 40 video and that book make their debuts within a few days of each other? And just in time for the holidays? It’s like we’re some kind of evil corporate marketing machine, and yet we’re really just a handful of loosely organized people paying scant attention to what we’re doing. You know my favorite thing about this video? It features a piece of chapter-opening artwork that Colleen Wheeler and I created for our most recent book, Photoshop Elements 8 One-on-One. Edt > Free Transform is one of Photoshop’s most fundamental commands, with a keyboard shortcut to prove it: Ctrl+T (Cmd-T on the Mac). Fortunately, there’s the Free Transform command, which lets you not just rotate but also scale, slant, and distort a layer in one continuous operation. Case in point: How do you rotate a layer? Right-click on it and select Rotate? Choose Rotate from the Layer menu? Click on the rotate tool? The answer is no, no, and no. Tip To repeat the last transformation on another path, press Ctrl+Shift+T.As powerful as Photoshop is, there is little about the program that is obvious. Or bag the whole thing by pressing Escape. To undo the last transformation inside the transform mode, press Ctrl+Z. You also can click the checkmark button at the right end of the Options bar. When you finishing stretching and distorting your paths, press Enter or doubleclick inside the boundary to apply the transformation. (Figure 8-23 earlier in this chapter labels the options.) Modify the values as desired and press Enter. * Numerical transformations: If you need to transform a path by a very specific amount, use the controls on the Options bar, which are the same ones you get when transforming a regular selection. These techniques apply to whole paths only. ![]() You can't take advantage of the distortion or perspective features when individual points are selected. * Perspective: Ctrl+Shift+Alt-drag a corner handle to achieve a perspective effect. * Distort: Ctrl-drag one of the corner handles to distort the paths. Press Shift along with Ctrl to constrain the slant along a consistent axis. * Skew: Ctrl-drag one of the side handles to slant the paths. Choose Flip Horizontal or Flip Vertical to create a mirror image of the path. * Flip: Right-click to access a pop-up menu of transformation options. * Rotate: Drag outside the boundary to rotate the paths or points, as demonstrated in Figure 8-32. You can move the origin by dragging it or by clicking one of the boxes in the little bounding box icon at the left end of the Options bar. Alt-drag a handle to scale with respect to the origin point. * Scale: To scale a path, drag one of the eight square handles that adorn the transformation boundary. Even so, here's a brief rundown of your transformation options after you press Ctrl+T: In an attempt to conserve tree matter - which is being wasted liberally enough in this tome - I explain the larger topic of transformation in one central location, the "Applying Transformations" section of Chapter 12. You can alternatively transform independent paths or points by selecting them and pressing Ctrl+T (bottom). Transformation origin Figure 8-32: To transform multiple paths at once (top), deselect all paths and press Ctrl+T. If you select an indepen dent path - or specific points inside a path - press Ctrl+Alt+T to transform a dupli * cate of the path and leave the original unaffected. Tip The keyboard shortcut for all of these operations is Ctrl+T. Just use the white arrow to select the points you want to modify and then choose Edit ^ Free Transform Points. * Photoshop even lets you transform some points independently of others inside a single path, as demonstrated in the second example of Figure 8-32. Or click the path with the white arrow and choose Edit ^ Free Transform Path. ♦ To transform a single subpath independently of others in a group, click it with the black arrow and then select the Show Bounding Box check box on the Options bar. ♦ To transform all subpaths in a group - such as both the eye and skull outline in the first example of Figure 8-32 - select either arrow tool and click off a path to make sure all paths are deselected. In addition to all the aforementioned path-altering techniques, you can scale, rotate, skew, and otherwise transform paths using the following techniques: ![]()
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