Transform your selection!

[AppleCider]

I realize this tip is nothing new to the real pros here, but my god, I had an epiphany today, stumbling on this thing! And I've been using Photoshop for years.

You want to select on a new layer to delete the selection. But your selection goes up and down instead of at the angle you want. And it's either too large or too small. My (stupid) way was the hard way: fill the selection on a new layer, transform it, Cmd (PC Cntrl) on the layer to select it, move to the layer you want to delete from and delete. Trash the layer you created just for this thing.

Forget this nonsense. You have a selection? Select Menu: Transform. YOu get the exact same stuff you get on a normal, pixelated layer. Scale it, rotate it, etc. I can't tell you how excited I am about what many people take for granted, but I've just discovered!

[theKeeper]

REALLY Julie?!
hahaa... well if i'da known THAT, i'da told you about it for sure! ;)

I must however caution folks from using this special function to alter their selections by too much. It can, & will, mess with the nice clean edges of you selection -- sometimes jaggies em up, some times makes em too soft.

Use this power wisely young apprentice, and serve you well it will. 8[ [honesty]

And keep scouting around in the menus... you'll be surprised at what lurks undetected on them. [excited]

Also, if you right click when you have a selection active, a menu pops up with the option "transform selection", at least on the PC version.

[sfm]

cool I will look at that later [excited]
sfm

[Erik]

Hey, my posting's disappeared???
However, it went like this:

It is when you discover things yourself that you realise how little reality-value knowledge has...
Your description of the process, the excitement, the enthusiasm,...it's all there. To me, that is even more important than the discovery itself.

Nice one. And don't exchange this world of discovery for a room full of knowledge.

I have to remember that; I'm trying to make it easier for you Mac users too lately.

[AppleCider]

Gaussian, anytime you need help with that, just ask. I have to work in both worlds; mostly on a Mac (certainly at home!) but I do have a nodding acquaintence with various flavors of Windows.

Generally, these keys translate across all apps:

PC Cntrl = Mac Cmd (aka the Apple Key, or the Propellor Key)
PC Alt = Mac Opt

(Note: the Control key on the Mac has nothing to do with the PC's Control key. That confuses a lot of people, particularly PC people sitting down at a Mac keyboard It's generally used along with a mouse click as the PC's right-click)

[Yutosi]

Guys last night i ran through a great shortcut:
while on the move tool Ctrl (Command) + Click on a certain layer to make it active.
now Ctrl(Command) + Shift to link it to another layer.



Ammar

Ammaro, when I do that thing with Ctrl+shift (I noticed that the cursor changes to a hand with a white square and a + sign), I don't see anything being linked, only the current layer is moved to another location in the stack. I use Photoshop 7.01

[Yutosi]

Gaussian my man, that probably because the move tool is not activated..

Ammar