Adobe Photoshop 7 Tutorials
Layers / Transforming Layer Data
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Of course you may want to make the pixel data in whatever layer you have selected larger or smaller or rotate it or create some sort of transformation, in order to further your graphic goals. In order to show you that, I'm going to turn off some of these background layers so it's a little bit easier to see my snail. With my mover tool selected, notice one of my options is to show the bounding box. And if you notice, my bounding box has these handlebars around the corner and the sides of the bounding box, as well as an origin point for our particular layer. Well if we pass right over one of the handlebars, notice how my cursor changes to be in this case, since I'm passing over the corner handlebar, the resize double headed arrow. And all I need to do is click on one of these corner handlebars, and now I can resize my snail. And if I hold the shift keys down while I'm doing this, it will resize proportionately. So I can drag out to make it larger or drag in to make it smaller. And notice that once I did that, my options palette changed to show me the transformation options available, and I spoke about these in the section on transforming selections. So these are the exact same tools available to you allowing you to transform your selection, in this case pixel data as opposed to a selection marquee. So it works the same way - when I pass outside of my bounding box notice that when I'm a little bit outside, my cursor turns into this rounded double headed arrow tool, and that means that I can click and drag to rotate around my center origin point. I could of course change the origin for this particular transformation by repositioning the origin point wherever I wish. So I'm going to click right on that center and notice it just snaps to these basic proxy locations - the center or I could have it snap to a side or even a corner. Or I could place it anywhere I want, even outside of the actual pixel data. And this way, it will rotate around that origin point. If you want it to snap to one of the corners or the center of your pixel data, I could also go up to this small proxy and click right on one of my origin or handlebar icons and my origin point would be placed thusly. If you want to squeeze your image, you can go to one of the side handlebars and drag in. And the same goes for the top, or the bottom. If you hold the option key down on the Mac or the Alt key down on the PC while you do that, it will distort from the center. If you go to one of the corner handle bars and hold down the command key on the Mac or control key on the PC, you can distort just one corner. And drag out that corner or handlebar, and distort this image this way. And if you made a complete mess of your transformation, you can click on the don't symbol and it will get you back to your image before you ran any of these transformations on it. If you are not seeing the show bounding box, bounding box, because that's disabled. Another way you can perform these exact same transformations is to invoke free transform. Under edit menu, choose free transform or command + 'T', and it will put a very similar looking bounding box around your pixel data on this layer. And of course you can do all these same transformations. Another nice feature is when you are using free transform, you can press and hold down on the control key on the Mac or the right mouse button on the PC, and it will bring up a popup menu, a context sensitive menu allowing you to choose some other options. And one of them I like to choose sometimes is perspective. And notice when you choose perspective, if you pull out one corner handle bar, it will create a perspective distortion and pull out the opposite corner handlebar, the same amount in the opposite direction. So when you are happy with your transformation, all you need to do is hit the enter key, or you can also click on this check box right here, and Photoshop will re-render your pixel data and make that transformation permanent.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop 7 |
| Author: | Andrew J. Hathaway |
| SKU: | 33329 |
| ISBN: | 1889347272 |
| Release Date: | 2002-09-05 |
| Duration: | 11 hrs / 152 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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