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Transforming selections

Transforming selections - Photoshop Tutorial

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Transforming selections

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- [Instructor] Using selections to manipulate the color on our digital cameras becomes a whole lot more interesting if we work with transformations. I have used the lasso tool to create this selection here. And I've already used the selection to paint in a branch. I now want to duplicate this branch and I do that by holding down the control key. On the Mac, it would be the command key and combining it with the alt key. My cursor changes to this double arrow. And if I click and drag inside my selection, I can pick up a duplicate of my branch. And as long as this is selected, I can go to edit, free transform. This adds these transform manipulators to my selection. Now, I can pick one of these handles here and scale my branch. No matter what manipulator I pick, this scaling will be proportional. When I hold down the shift key and use the manipulators, I can unproportionally scale my selection. I can even flip it over to the other side. If I release the shift key, this new proportion is…

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