Free transformation

[Alan Kingston]

Hello All PSErs.

I have what is most likely an easy question. When using the free transformation (Ctrl T), When I "resize" the picture, I have read to hold the shift key and grab a corner and pull it in. Question is, Why use the shift key? It looks like it does pretty much the same thing w/o using the shift key.

Thanks!

AK

[mrod]

Hi Alan-

What version of PSE are you using? In 3 & 4, holding the Shift key while resizing from one of the corners constrains the height & width dimensions, so the image resizes proportionally. If you try it without the Shift key held down, you can change the height and width independantly, and likely distort the image.

In version 5, however, there is a little checkbox in the Option Bar at the top of the screen that says "Constrain Proportions" (Hit ctrl/command+T and you should see it up there).

If that box is ticked, you don't have to hold Shift to tranform proportionally. In fact, holding Shift will turn off that feature, so it will behave as it did without shift in the earlier versions.

Does that help?

Mike

[Alan Kingston]

Mike,

I'm currently using version 3. I may upgrade to 5.

Yes that answers my question. It is kind of what I thought, but wanted to check.

Thanks!:)

AK