From the course: Photoshop 2020 One-on-One: Fundamentals
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Flipping and scaling a layer - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2020 One-on-One: Fundamentals
Flipping and scaling a layer
- [Instructor] All right, now this new texture needs to be facing the opposite direction and it needs to be bigger. Which is why, in this movie, I'll show you how to flip and scale a layer. So, make sure that you're new cliff layer, or whatever you called it, is selected here inside the layers panel and then you want to go to the edit menu, choose transform and then choose this guy right here, flip horizontal. And that will go ahead and flip the image like so. So that's pretty easy to do. All right, now I'll just space bar drag the image over a little bit and with my move tool still selected up here at the top of the toolbox, I'll go ahead and drag this guy over like so 'til I have more or less a consistent amount of white border. And just to confirm that I've done this right, I'll press Control + 0, or Command + 0 on the mac, just so that I can compare the borders on my sign. I might zoom in a little more…
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The layered composition1m 42s
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Introducing the Layers panel5m 18s
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Converting flat background to a layer4m 54s
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"Jumping" an image onto a new layer3m 28s
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Flipping and scaling a layer2m 53s
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Adding a vector-based layer2m 11s
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Creating a basic layer mask6m 15s
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Clipping one layer inside another4m 3s
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Merging two layers into one4m 58s
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Auto-Select and the Move tool3m 41s
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Inverting a layer mask4m 51s
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Adding depth with layer effects4m 13s
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Softening a mask with Feather2m 47s
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Three ways to copy and paste layers4m 54s
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Auto-zooming one or more layers2m 38s
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