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

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Transform and duplicate in one operation

Transform and duplicate in one operation - Photoshop Tutorial

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

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Transform and duplicate in one operation

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- [Narrator] In this movie, I'll show you how to both transform and duplicate a layer in one easy operation, and just by way of a preview, it involves the keyboard shortcut of Ctrl Alt T, or Cmd Option T on the Mac. And along the way, we'll create this foliage that is surrounding our composition. So, I'm going to start off by switching to this extremely non-tropical plant right here, and I'm going to duplicate it to my composition in progress by right clicking any old place inside the image window with a rectangular marquee tool, and choosing 'duplicate layer,' and then I'll change the destination document to my work in progress, which is called "Clash of the empires.psd" and then I'll click, okay. Alright, now I'll go ahead and switch over to that document, and as you can see, the agave plant is kind of buried in the middle of things, so I'm going to pop it to the top by dragging it up the list here inside the layers panel, but you should know, there's a keyboard shortcut that you…

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