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In this movie we finish up our Transformation Tools by taking a look at the Flip Tool. Now, the Flip Tool is going to allow us to flip our image or flip our layer. Now, of course, if you go to the Image Menu you see the Transform Flip Horizontally or Vertically and that's going to transform the entire image. In the Layer Menu you have Transform and then Flip here and that's going to flip the current selected layer. Now, I don't want to do that right now. I want to get my Flip Tool and you'll see that you have fewer options than you had with your other transformation tools. That's because it's a little bit simpler than your other transformation tools. Again, you can affect these different types of content but down below you can only choose whether you're going to flip horizontally or flip vertically. You also note that the Control Key is going to be your keyboard shortcut to toggle that on or off. Now, for our image we need to flip three letters; the R, the N and the P. So let's go ahead and find our letters. So there's the P and I need to flip horizontally so I'll just come in here and click and drag and there it is. I can do the R. Just click and drag and let go and there it is. And then the N and just click. So that's how you can use your Flip Tool to affect your different layers. So now with all of that and all of our letters more or less corrected, we could then take our letters, size them and move them around using our different tools to put them into position. Now, there is an Align Tool that can help you align your different layers. So if I want to align all of my top letters here, go ahead and switch back. I've got my Move Tool and I'm going to move these over just a little bit and space it out just a little bit more. Take advantage of the space that we have. And then I'm going to come over into my Layer Panel here. I'm going to grab my Align Tool and what I can do with the Align Tool here is I can go through my document and hold down the Shift Key to select all of the items that I want to have aligned. Then I can select how it's going to align or how it's going to be distributed. Now, if it's alignment, I can have it align relative to the first item, the overall image, the selection, the active layer, the active channel or the active path. So I'm going to go ahead and do the first image and so the different ways I can align is the left horizontal edge, the center horizontally, the right horizontal. Then we have vertical options; to the top, the center or the bottom. I'm going to go ahead and click on Middle and what happens is the middles of the letters all line up. Now I'm going to go ahead and switch back here to my Move Tool and I'm going to move GIMP out and I'm not going to move it all the way because I want to demonstrate how to use the other option for your Alignment Tool. So with the Alignment Tool, I get the Alignment Tool and then I come in and I pick my letter and then I hold down Shift and click on the different layer items that I want. There we go. And then with Distribute, I can have these distribute across the horizontal centers of the targets. Not really what I want to do. Have it distribute vertically, by top, by bottom, by right edge, by left edge. Now, these things are going to be kind of handy whenever you're working with your different content. However, Offset may be more helpful in our case because we're trying to take our images here and distribute them equally across. So if I do my Offset here. I'm going to go ahead and do an offset of 25 and I'll take a look at that. It's going to be offsetting my different layers by 25 pixels. So I'm going to go ahead and set that to 200 and then I Offset through the horizontal and it's going to offset it by 200. So that is appropriate for what we're trying to do here. However, the chaos that has been created isn't going to be all that great so I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to Undo and now I have it back to where it was in the beginning and I have Offset to 200 and I'll just go ahead and set this to Distribute Horizontal Centers and there we go. They're more or less kind of equally aligned and if I want, I can increase that a little bit and go to 400. A little bit too much so I'll drop that down to say 350, do Center again and there we go. That looks pretty good. And so that's taking a look at our Align Tool and that concludes a look at our Transformation Options.