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Transforming and warping a selection outline

Transforming and warping a selection outline - Photoshop Tutorial

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Transforming and warping a selection outline

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In his exercise I'll show you how to transform and warp a selection outline. I'm working inside that file called the egg.psd and I've gone ahead and drawn my elliptical marquee. I'm going to go back up just so that we can do this together. We'll go back up to the Select menu and choose the transform Selection command. Now here's a few ways to transform a selection. For one you can go ahead and resize it by dragging one of the handles. Another option available to you, I'll go ahead and press Ctrl+Z or Command+Z on the Mac. By the way, you only have one undo when you're working inside this Transform mode. So if you mess something up like I have and you want to reinstate that original selection then you can do so using the numerical options in the options bar. So I'm going to go ahead and turn on the chain icon between W and H so that we can constrain the height and width of the object and I'm going to click on this bottom right reference point, because I want to be able to scale with…

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