Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop CS4 in 24 Hours

Chapter 10. Using Transformations

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Resizing

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Rotating

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Flipping

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Skewing, Distorting, and Changing Perspective

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Using Free Transform

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Warping and Liquifying

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When you transform something, you change it completely without turning it into something else. This concept applies in design, math, and even Photoshop. Transformations in Photoshop are geometric changes that you can make to an entire image or to just part of it, without turning it into something it’s not. They include rotating, scaling, flipping, skewing, and more—and it’s time for you to learn ...