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Applying a slant (aka skew)

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Applying a slant (aka skew)

I'm still working inside Automation boy.psd, found inside the 22_warp folder, and I remain inside of the Free Transform command. So I have not applied my Transformation as of yet. And so far I have made some pretty random modifications here, including a little bit of a Skew value, and you can tell there's some skewing going on because these final H and V values represent Slant values as opposed to Rotations. I am going to go ahead and change that H value to 0, so that both the final H and V are zeroed out. So we have no skew going on at this point. We do have some Scaling, as you can see also represented in the Options bar, and we do have some Rotation. Now then, I was saying that you can Alt+ Drag, once you've rotated your layer, Alt+Dragging or Option+Dragging, a corner handle is not only going to scale the layer. It's also going to skew it. However you don't have a lot of constraints, and you don't have a lot of Ctrl over what's going on. So what's a better way to work? Well, let's…

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