␡
- Selection tools
- The Rectangular Marquee tool
- The Elliptical Marquee tool
- Single Row or Single Column Marquee tool
- The Lasso tool
- The Polygonal Lasso tool
- The Magnetic Lasso tool
- Feather the edge (make it soft and fuzzy)
- Modify your selection
- The Quick Selection tool
- The Magic Wand tool
- The Pen tool
- The Crop tool
- Transform commands
- Free Transform
- Transform menu options
This chapter is from the book
Free Transform
“Free Transform” lets you do basic transforms, such as resize (scale) and rotate. Also see page 34–35 for another technique using this command.
- Select a portion or all of the image. If you select it all, open the window wide enough that you can see the corners.
- From the Edit menu, choose “Free Transform.”
The Transform bounding box appears around the edges of the image. If you can’t see the corner handles, make the window a little larger.
- To resize the selection proportionately (to maintain its aspect ratio), hold down the Shift key as you drag a corner handle (shown above).
To resize in any way, just drag any handle. Side handles resize in just one direction; corner handles resize both sides at once.
- To rotate the selection, position the cursor a few pixels away from any corner handle (you definitely have to open your window larger for this). When
the cursor changes to a curved double-arrow, press-and-drag the cursor.
See page 86 for commit/cancel options.