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Photoshop has a great feature which allows you to distort the shape of your selection. This does not edit any pixels. This does not distort the shape of any pixels, but just the selection. The container of an effect that you might want to run on the pixels. So with my selection active, and you can see the marching ants around my apple here, I'm going to go to Select menu, Transform Selection. What it does is it puts a bounding box around the edges of the selection, and this bounding box has a few features. It has some corner anchor points, some mid anchor points, on the tops and the sides and the bottom, and it also has an origin point. Notice if I move my cursor next to the origin point, my cursor has a very small origin point next to it too, which means that I can click and drag this origin point to a new spot on my selection. The relevance of this is that the origin point is the origin where any transformation or distortion will take effect. I want to talk to you about some of the options in the Options palette, now that we've invoked transform selection. The very left side of the Options palette, I have this little box here with the anchor points around it. You can see - and one in the middle. The one in the middle is currently selected, and that means that what this is, is it's telling me where my origin point is, and these are predefined sectors that I can have. So I can click on the lower left-hand corner, and notice now that my origin point has moved right over to that corner. And you can also see that this corner has now been darkened, indicating that that's where the origin point is. So we can place the origin point in any of these ten predefined zones - corner, side or the middle. Some of the other informational areas up here describe to me the precise X,Y co-ordinate, and this is the X,Y co-ordinate of the origin point. So if we move that origin point, notice that these co-ordinates change. I'm going to drag it back to the middle, and in doing that, the origin point always snaps the middle of your object or selection in this case. This button right here will allow me to see information about how my selection is changing relative to the way it was before I made a change. So if I click it, you can see that since I haven't made any change, it hasn't - it's changed zero pixels. I drag this down a bit. You can see it's now changed relative to how it started out - 9.5 pixels - I'll undo that. These next two items here are information about the width and height in percentage of my selection change. I can choose to enable this link button, and what this will do - it will always link the size changes. So it will change size proportionately. So I click the link button and go to a corner anchor point and drag in, you can see it's changing proportionally. I'll undo that, and un-click the link icon. And now I'll just drag over to the left, and you can see I've distorted my selection a bit. This item right here allows me to type in a numerical value for a precise rotation. I can type in a say 30 degrees, and you see that my selection rotates precisely 30 degrees. I'll type in zero. Finally these last two items allow me to horizontally and vertically skew my selection to precise numerical increments. And to show you how that looks, I'll type in 30 degree skew, and you can see it's taken the bounding box and created this parallelogram type of shape skewing it. Now you can create all these distortions by going and moving a handlebar with some key combination. So you don't actually have to use the Options palette at the top to type in precise numerical values. You can also do it just visually. If I want to rotate my selection, go a little bit outside the bounding box, and notice that my cursor has changed to this double-headed rounded arrow. And that means now if I click and drag around, I'm going to rotate my selection - how about that. Click and drag right on a corner anchor point, and of course you can distort the shape a little bit. If you want to maintain the shape so it distorts proportionally, hold down the shift key while you click and drag. And you can see that it is constrained to the exact same shape, but it's just smaller in this case since I dragged in. If you want to squeeze your shape, hold down the Option key on the Mac or the Alt key on the Windows, and it will squeeze in both sides. And you can see I'm doing that from a side anchor point and not the corner. I'll undo that. If you don't hold down the Option or Alt key, it just moves from the side that you click and drag on. Finally, to create skews, you can move to one of the side anchor points, and hold down the Command key or the Control key on Windows, and drag to the left or the right. In this case I'm creating a horizontal skew, and notice how my value has actually been added to this box right here. If you want to create a vertical skew go to one of the side anchor points, and hold down the Command or Control key if you're on Windows. Lastly, you can also detach one of these corner anchor points and distort your shape that way. So I'm going to hold down the Command key, and notice when I hold down the Command key on the Macintosh or the Control key on Windows, that my cursor changes its icon to this little arrow, and it says I can break this particular corner off and distort my shape this way. Just a little bit about the origin point - if you want to move the origin point, click and drag it to a new spot. And I'm just going to drag it over here and show you, using the rotate feature, how my selection will rotate around this origin point. Remember when it was in the middle, it rotated the selection from the middle, but now notice its rotating from this particular origin point right here. So when you're happy with your selection transformations, click the check box and that will confirm those transformations. If you want to get back to where you started and get rid of this bounding box, click the X. For now, I'll click the check box and commit to these selection transformations.