Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
When we duplicated the layer, Photoshop placed the layer image in the upper left corner of
the book cover. If we click on the move tool, we can drag it to the rough location that we
want
.
Our next step is to size it and rotate it. We can do both with the
Free Transform
selection
from the
Edit Menu
.
Edit > Free Transform
This menu selection will place a box around the image. This box also has small squares at
the corners and at the middle of each side. These squares are grab points. We can use the
mouse to grab and drag these points to change the size of the image.
When the cursor is outside of the box it looks like a small arc with arrow heads at each
end. This change of icon indicates that we can rotate the image with the cursor. While
rotating, there will be a small rectangular box near the cursor. It will tell us the angle of
rotation from the original position. In this case we are looking for about 15 degrees of ro-
tation counter- clockwise.
After rotating the image, drag a corner to change its size. If we hold down the Shift Key
while dragging, we will maintain the aspect ratio of the original image.
