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Working with Selections / Using the Free Transform Command
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OK, we've got this guy selected. Now what? Well, let me show you this thing called Free Transform. I think you're really, really going to like this command. So I'm going to zoom out here, once again Cmd-Minus or Ctrl-Minus there on the Windows side is just fine and I'm going to switch over to my Move Tool, I'll just hit the V key on my keyboard and I'm going to take this little piece here and, of course, drag him over onto the face that we're slowly creating over on the right-hand side and let me just quickly remind you again that we've got this floating selection, right, so we can move him around and position him up where we want. As soon as we get rid of the marching ants, of course, that's going to flatten everything down, it kind of collapses down your object onto your image. I'm just going to zoom in a little bit here. Now what I was thinking is that this little curved piece of metal here could be our face's eyebrows. That's what I had in mind anyway, but unless I want to have an angry face, a pouty face, what I need to do is I need to flip this object around 180 degreesright? So how am I going to do that? Well, again, that's what this command called Free Transform is going to let us do. It's going to let us take an object, like this and rotate it around, scale it up and down, all kinds of crazy stuff. Find your Free Transform command, by the way, underneath your Edit Menu, so head up to the Edit Menu and then I guess about halfway down look for Free Transform or, once again, here's another Keyboard Shortcut that you'll definitely want to try and remember, Cmd-T here on the Mac or Ctrl-T there on the Windows side and that will get you into the Free Transform. Now, the Free Transform command gives you a frame around your selection, just like the Crop Tool and just like that Transform Selection command that we saw not too long ago and just like those other two commands the Free Transform command works exactly the same way. So if I drag on the corners now what happens is I scale the size of the object. So maybe I want this object to be super huge or maybe I want it to be, you know, super tiny, or maybe I want to make it taller or wider or maybe I want to rotate it around. I can do that just by bringing my cursor outside of the frame and then clicking and dragging, something like this, right? You can do all kinds of crazy stuff. But, you know, now what's happened here is I've totally distorted the object. I've totally messed it up and what I want to do is I want to back out of everything that I've done. So what I'm going to do here is I'll hit Escape on my keyboard and what that does is that gets rid of the Free Transform frame and it takes me all the way back to where you and I started. So, if you've messed around a little bit with your Free Transform hit Escape. That'll take you all the way back out and then you and I can go back into the Free Transform again, just by using that Keyboard Shortcut, if we like Ctrl-T or Cmd-T and then we can start over. So, maybe what I'll do here is I want to make this piece into the eyebrow, obviously, so I want to make him a little bit bigger, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to hold down the Shift key and drag on a corner and what that will do, holding down Shift there, is that will prevent the object from getting distorted. In other words, it'll keep that width and height ratio in check, if that makes sense. So, you might want to scale him up a little bit. And I also said that I wanted to rotate him around, so I'm just going to simply flip him around like this, just by dragging on the outside of the frame, something like that, maybe. Next up what I'll do is I'll simply move him up above the eyes, maybe something like that, or above one of the eyes there. If you want to add in maybe a little bit of character you might want to tilt it just a little bit to give him a little bit of expression, something like that, maybe. Maybe I'll just kind of crush him down a little bit, maybe something like that. I think that looks pretty good to me. What do you think? I think it looks good. I'm going to hit Enter to lock in that change. Again, just like the Crop Tool, just like the Transform Selection Tool that we saw earlier and then I'm going to duplicate this guy out. We want two eyebrows, right? So, again, holding down Alt or Option and all I'm going to do is click and drag on this object to create a copy, something like that. Fantastic. OK, get rid of your selection, get rid of your marching ants, Ctrl-D or Cmd-D.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop CS5 |
| Author: | Geoff Blake |
| SKU: | 34150 |
| ISBN: | 1-936334-46-1 |
| Release Date: | 2010-08-06 |
| Duration: | 7.5 hrs / 95 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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