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Scaling, skewing, and rotating layers using Free Transform

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Scaling, skewing, and rotating layers using Free Transform

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- [Instructor] We're going to take a few moments and look at all the different options that Free Transform has to offer. This document has two layers, the background and then a photograph of the kitchen and I want to put the kitchen into the mirror. In order to transform non-destructively I'm going to convert this kitchen layer into a smart object. I can right click and then choose Convert to smart object from the Context Sensitive menus. Now I can make as many transforms as possible and I'll never lose any image quality. From the edit menu, I'll choose Free Transform or I could use the keyboard shortcut command-T on Mac or control + T on Windows. When I drag one of the corner points in order to scale it Photoshop will automatically constrain the proportions by default, but we can unlink them. If we wanted to make a distorted transformation.` I'll go ahead and use Command-Z in order to undo that and then I will link…

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