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Rotating a layer - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Learning Photoshop on the iPad
Rotating a layer
- [Instructor] Let's go ahead and lock the castle group layer, just using this icon on the right-hand side, and we'll add some more content. In the exercise files there is this render of a dragon, which I think we could make-- Let's make that quite a bit larger, let's make that the main gig here. This time we're going to use this small rotation widget at the top here to rotate this around. Let's get a more menacing angle there with a bit of wing, almost horizontal and the rest of the body pointing downwards. Yeah, I think that looks pretty bad. Bad in a good way, of course. (chuckling) Step done. Okay, now we have the dragon in place. What we can then do is select that. Now at the moment we've got kind of everything laying over the top of the artwork, so one of the things you can do is pinch in on the layers to switch them to compact mode. In fact, give that a couple of goes. Swipe outwards and pinch in directly…
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Creating a new document1m 32s
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Placing content2m 27s
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Adjustment layers1m 53s
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Using the Quick Selection tool1m 57s
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Renaming a file1m 18s
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Adding a clipped adjustment2m 11s
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Edit an adjustment1m 28s
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Healing4m 19s
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Grouping layers2m 25s
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Locking layers and groups1m 14s
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Object Selection and layer masks3m 40s
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Painting5m 28s
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Masking a group3m 36s
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Rotating a layer6m 33s
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Layer blending2m 29s
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Adding a fill layer3m 1s
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Challenge: Castle scene51s
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Solution: Castle scene1m 9s
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