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Photoshop lets you transform your images by scaling, skewing, changing their perspective. You can also change how they're flipped, so you can flip things horizontally, vertically, all kinds of stuff. So Photoshop's not just about the filters, it's not just about the color correction, because sometimes you just want to change your image itself in some way. So let's go ahead and talk about some of the transformation tools. If you open a new file and you notice that you have your background layer locked, if you try to use the shortcut, which is command or control and the letter T, to get your transformation tools, you'll notice that we don't have any boundaries here. We don't have any borders. We don't have any marching ants or any handles that we can use to manipulate the image. So I'm going to show you a little shortcut here. Just double click on where it says background and just leave it at layer 0. Click okay and you've pretty much unlocked that layer. Now when you press command or control T on the keyboard, the transformation tools appear so we can freely transform this image. You'll notice that if you put your mouse on any of the corner handles here, we can click and drag to scale the image. You'll notice that it's not in proportion because I'm not holding down the shift key, so I'm going to hit escape on the keyboard and that will put it back to the way it was. I'll press command or control T yet again. This time, I'll hold the shift key on the keyboard, I'll grab one of these handles, and now it will scale in proportion, so I can scale up, I can scale down, and I can really change this image very easily. Once again, I'll hit the escape key. I'll press command or control T again and I want to show you something else because later on I'm going to talk about how to create smart objects. With a smart object, when you scale an image down and you scale it back up, you won't lose any of your image quality, so I wanted to bring that up so you'll know what to look for in the actual full course of Photoshop CS3 from the Virtual Training Company. So once again, when we scale this down and you hit the enter or return key, you're pretty much throwing away pixels. When you resize it, you're going to get a very pixelated image because Photoshop has to try to guess what pixels were lost when you scaled it down. So once again, I just want to put a little heads up for you. So that's something that we're going to talk about, smart objects. Very important, very powerful tool. Now, what else can we do with these tools? Well, I'm going to scale it down a little bit and once again I'm not going to hold down the shift key. I'm just going to move my mouse in the middle area and click and move this image right in the center here. You'll also notice we have this checkerboard back here. Don't worry. This doesn't print out. This just shows you that this image back here, or rather this area, is totally transparent. So nothing is there. So, what happens when I put my mouse in the corner now? The double-sided arrows appear. I can click and now I can rotate. If I put my mouse right back on it again, I get the double-sided arrow, which are straight, which means I can scale. So once again, when you get the rounded ones, you can rotate, and the straight ones, you can scale. These here will scale in whatever particular axis you're in. So I'm scaling here and I'm scaling here and once again I'm scaling by moving in the corner. I'll hit escape. I want to show you how to access these tools in the menu this time. We're going to go to edit and you'll see that we have transform and we have some tools in here. We have scale, rotate, skew, distort, perspective, warp, rotate 180¼, rotate 90¼ clockwise, rotate 90¼ counterclockwise, flip horizontal, and flip vertical. Let's go ahead and do a flip vertical. You see we flipped the entire image around vertically. Let's go back to edit. You'll also notice that the command or control T is what we did a little while ago with the free transform. So let's go ahead and choose to transform. This time we'll do something cool. We'll choose perspective. This time, when we use the handles, we're able to change the perspective of the image. How cool is that? You can really create some nice effects that way. You have to hit enter or return to accept that. If not, you hit escape and it will, you know, go back to the way it was before you accepted the transformation. I'm going to edit, undo that free transform, and let's once again go back to edit. Let's go to transform. This time, let's go ahead and choose skew. Now, skew is a crazy word but what it does, really, is it gives you the effect of something being blown by wind, so we just skewed this house and the background. We can also skew in any of the axes here by simply clicking on the appropriate handle. I'll hit escape once again and let's go back to edit and we can once again go to transform and you'll notice that we have quite a few things in here as well, so if you scanned an image in and it's kind of the wrong way, you can always rotate it in any of these degrees here, so you can rotate clockwise and so on. I'll undo that. So, as you see here, the transformation tools are very, very powerful. They can help you to fix something that you scanned in incorrectly. You can flip images vertically or horizontally and you can also put perspective, skew, rotate, scale, and we're going to talk about warp and distort in upcoming lessons. So these are very powerful tools. They help you to manipulate the actual pixels on the layer itself, as opposed to adding special effects using the filters.