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Working with the reference point

Working with the reference point - Photoshop Tutorial

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Working with the reference point

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- [Instructor] All right, now I'll show you how to work with a reference point, which is the center of any rotation you apply using the crop tool. It can be the center of a scale, as well. You can move the reference point anytime you like, but by default, you can't see it. I'm going to show you how to work with it and how to make it visible as well. All right, so let's say I just go ahead and draw a yet another crop boundary, and I'm going to drag outside the boundary in order to rotate the image. Now you may say to yourself, Deek, just a couple of movies ago, you told us that rotation is a destructive modification that rewrites every single pixel inside the image. So one would think you wouldn't want to do that multiple times, and that is true, you don't. I'm just doing this for the sake of demonstration. Now notice as I drag, I'm rotating the image with respect to its center. And to make things a little more clear,…

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