Photoshop Bootcamp Guide 3
Transformations: How To Scale, Rotate, Skew, Stretch, Warp and Fix Perspective In Your Images
Photoshop lets us do all kinds of weird and wonderful transformations to our images, layers and selections. From scaling up and down in size to warping and distorting. This guide will help you learn how transform your images.
Photoshop Basic Transformations: How To Scale, Rotate, Skew, Distort And Flip Your Images
*Updated April 2020*
In this tutorial, I show you how to use Photoshop’s Free Transform command to scale, rotate, flip, skew and distort images. You’ll learn tips for getting the most out of Free Transform, and how to transform images without losing quality.
We’ll start with the basics and learn how to scale and rotate images. Then we’ll look at Photoshop’s more advanced transformations, like Skew, Distort and Perspective, along with the best ways to use them. And at the end, I’ll show you how to get more impressive results from the standard Rotate and Flip commands, including how to create a four-way mirror image effect!
This tutorial includes changes Adobe made to Free Transform as of Photoshop CC 2019, along with additional improvements in Photoshop CC 2020. So for best results, you’ll want to be using the latest version of Photoshop. If you’ve been using Photoshop for a while and just need to catch up on the most recent changes to Free Transform, check out my New Features and Changes tutorial.
Jennifer Farley
Instructor
Hi I'm Jennifer.
I am an Adobe Education Trainer and have been teaching Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign for over 15 years.
I also work as an illustrator and designer so as well as helping people learn Photoshop, I also use it everyday for my own work.
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