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Skews and distortions - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2021 New Features
Skews and distortions
- [Presenter] Now, as you may know, when applying the free transform command, Photoshop offers a trick where you can press and hold the control key here in the PC or the command key on the Mac. In order to either skew or distort a shape. And so once again, I've selected this rectangle and I'm working with anyone of the shape tools, or for that matter, I could have selected the black arrow and notice if I were to drag this bottom handle here and then press the control key or the command key on the Mac on the fly, by the way, as I'm dragging, then I am skewing the shape and I'm seeing the degree of the skew represented there in that heads up display. The thing is you will lose the live shape. So you're going to turn the live shape into a regular path outline. In my case, I'm not going to continue, I'll just click, no. So, I can show you the other way to work, which is to drag a corner handle and then press the control…
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The Line tool now draws lines2m 26s
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Using the new on-canvas controls2m 29s
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Working with live arrowheads4m 4s
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Rectangles and ellipses2m 39s
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Photoshop remembers rotations2m 42s
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Skews and distortions1m 38s
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The new Triangle tool2m 2s
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Live polygons and stars3m 5s
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Showing the reference point2m 10s
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