quick photoshop help

chris_c

Hi all I need a wee bit of help in photoshop and unlike a lot of requests for help this one is quite simple but for the life of me I cant remember how to do it.
Rite when you are in photoshop with a pic on screen, you have your layers box up and the background layer highlighted there is a way you can get a box around the pic with little boxes in the corners which you can use to make the pic smaller and if you hold shift when you do it you can make the pic smaller without affecting the quality.
I think you hold shift d or crtl d or something like that I just cant mind:dunno

windoze

chris_c wrote:

Hi all I need a wee bit of help in photoshop and unlike a lot of requests for help this one is quite simple but for the life of me I cant remember how to do it.
Rite when you are in photoshop with a pic on screen, you have your layers box up and the background layer highlighted there is a way you can get a box around the pic with little boxes in the corners which you can use to make the pic smaller and if you hold shift when you do it you can make the pic smaller without affecting the quality.
I think you hold shift d or crtl d or something like that I just cant mind

im so new to this kinda stuff, but are you referring to transforming and then scaling the image?



troy

LAB.rat

Ctrl+T

You can then hold all kinds of handy combinations when resizing.

USAIR

You must hit Ctrl+A to select all first
Then Ctrl+D to free transform

If you hold the shift key down when in free transform is keeps the photo in the same aspect ratio (doesn't warp the image out of wack) while resizing the image

Fred

pyrtek

USAIR wrote:

You must hit Ctrl+A to select all first
Then Ctrl+D to free transform

Ctrl + D will deselect. I think you meant Ctrl + T.

pathfinder

What Pyrtek said,

Ctrl-T to transform

Ctrl-D deselects what you grabbed with Ctrl-A

chris_c

thanks people i got it sorted

USAIR

pathfinder wrote:

What Pyrtek said,

Ctrl-T to transform

Ctrl-D deselects what you grabbed with Ctrl-A

Sorry I knew that my head is just not with it today

Fred

pathfinder

I have had days like that too Fred.

A little "hair of the dog" helps sometimes:D

LAB.rat

USAIR wrote:

You must hit Ctrl+A to select all first

Not true in CS2, so probably not true in CS3. Select a layer and Ctrl+T is all that is needed (or excuse me if I might be missing something? ).

Hindsight

You're ALL wrong, it's command+t !

Nikolai

LAB.rat wrote:

Not true in CS2, so probably not true in CS3. Select a layer and Ctrl+T is all that is needed (or excuse me if I might be missing something? ).

Correct (CS2/CS3).
One thing - the layer needs to be unlocked for the Free Transform to work, so it would normally NOT work on the Background layer - that is, unless you unlock it first by renaming it to something else.