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Scale, rotate, and move - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Introducing Photoshop
Scale, rotate, and move
- [Instructor] Now we're going to make the logo a little bit smaller, and we're also going to move it to the bottom left corner of the composition. And we're going to do so using a very standard command known as Free Transform. And so notice if I go up to the Edit menu and drop down to the word transform right here, that I bring up a sub-menu of standard transformations, which include things like scale and rotate. However, I can get to all of those features by choosing the next command up, which is this guy right here, Free Transform. And that's going to bring up this transformation boundary. And so notice if you drag anyone of these square handles that you're going to scale the image proportionally. If you wanted to squish it instead, then you'd press and hold the Shift key as I drag one of these handles. And then if I wanted to rotate the image, I would move my cursor outside the transform boundary, so I can see that rotate…
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Copying and duplicating images4m 11s
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Modifying the opacity value2m 6s
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The three essential blend modes4m 13s
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Creating a double-exposure effect2m
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Cropping and straightening3m 7s
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Applying an adjustment layer3m 45s
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Painting on an independent layer4m 16s
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Select All, Copy Merged1m 49s
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Dropping out whites or blacks1m 32s
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Scale, rotate, and move2m 5s
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Applying a layer effect3m 6s
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Zooming in on a layer51s
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