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Skews and distortions

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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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