

If you try these techniques or others, leave us a comment, and tell us how it went!įeatured Image via Ivan Lukyanshuk / shutterstock.I’m going to show you a feature in Photoshop that makes it easy to repeat transformations over and over again to create some really cool art. If you’re ready to move on, or just want more detailed and comprehensive instructions, check out this article on Adobe’s Help page.
PHOTOSHOP FREE TRANSFORM HOW TO
This is a good place to start if you’re just learning how to transform objects. You can use multiple transformations too to get just the right effect for your object. Once you’ve used them a couple of times, they really become second nature. Transform and Free Transform are the simplest ways I’ve found to resize objects in Photoshop.
PHOTOSHOP FREE TRANSFORM WINDOWS
PHOTOSHOP FREE TRANSFORM FOR MAC
Hold down your Alt key for Windows or Option key for Mac as you’re dragging the handle to reshape the area from its center.This will place a bounding box around the selected layer/object. Use Ctrl + T for Windows or Command+T for Mac to activate Free Transform.Drag the control points, a line, or an area within the mesh to change the shape of the mesh and the shape of the object will follow.īecause it can be more efficient to keep your hands on the keyboard, here are some keyboard shortcuts you can use for resizing. When activated, a “mesh” graph appears over the image.


Warp allows detailed manipulation of the shape of an object.Grab a corner handle and drag to apply the perspective you want. Perspective applies a one-point perspective to the chosen object.Use the corner handles to distort the shape. Distort allows you to stretch your object in all directions.

Just drag a side handle to slant the bounding box. Skew will slant your object vertically and horizontally.Press Shift to move the rotation in 15° increments. You can then drag the pointer to rotate the image. If you move your pointer outside the bounding border it becomes a curved, two-sided arrow. Rotate will rotate the image around a fixed reference point.For a more detailed discussion, view this article. Here’s a quick description of what each of the subfunctions will do.
