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Skewing and distorting a layer

Skewing and distorting a layer - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Advanced

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Skewing and distorting a layer

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- [Narrator] In this movie, I'll show you how to use the Free Transform command to both skew and distort a layer. But before we revisit that command, it's a good idea to go up to the Edit menu and choose Undo Free Transform, or press Control + Z or Command + Z on the MAC, to reset the bat to its original state. And the reason for this is that any time you scale, rotate, or otherwise transform a pixel-based layer, Photoshop has to rewrite every single pixel in that layer. Which is to say, if you apply Free Transform multiple times in a row, then you're going to rewrite those pixels multiple times, which amounts to a destructive modification. Now we're going to see an exception to this when we take a look at Smart Objects in the very next chapter. But for now, just make sure that you apply Free Transform one and only one time to any given layer. Alright, now I'm going to go ahead and rename this layer, smile bat, let's say. And then I'm going to save my progress so far by going up to…

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