Wendy's Plaid Tutorial

[CEHARRIS3]

I am already stuck at step 4!!!!!! When I duplicate the first green stripe and try to move it with "image rotate", BOTH stripes move, even though the duplicate is the only stripe active...even when I hide the original:mad:

[cats4jan]

I'll take a guess here - the canvas is rotating - not the layer

When you do image> rotate - the screen that comes up has two sections

The section above the line is to rotate the entire canvas and everything on it

The section below the line rotates only the active layer

[CEHARRIS3]

That is the first tme I ever noticed that line Cats!! No matter what I click, however, I still can't get the one object to rotate right. I can only do it with the free move option (or similar name). I am still not sure what you mean by the canvas moving with it...or how that makes a difference, but I am sure you are on the correct track. I still have problems with the canvas concept. Thanks for the reply:)

[cats4jan]

What I mean by the canvas moving is

When you open a new project - that project is called the "canvas" by Elements. When you use the top half of that rotate screen - the whole thing rotates - the whole project - and all it's layers.

If your layers are rotating together, they are either linked or you are rotating the canvas.

To check if they are linked - look to the layers palette and look for a little link at the right end of the layer - you could've accidentally hit the link icon at the top of the layers palette creating a link between your layers. To get out of that - just click on the link icon and it will unlink.

Are you sure each of your lines are on their own layers? Each item has to be on it's own layer to rotate one part of it.

[CEHARRIS3]

I successsfully rotated the duplicate of the image by clicking "rotate right" below the line, The line rotated and appeared mid-point and at right angles to the orignal. What I don't understand is exactly what is happening. I can't put it into words:confused: Can anyone explain the significance of the commands below the line on the image menu? I have never encountered this before:confused:

[Wendy]

Hi ...

Basically what is happening is that for the ones above the line ... it rotates all the layers in the image.

... but the ones below the line it just rotates the layer that you are on at the time,

Hope that helps :)

Wendy

[CEHARRIS3]

Thanks for all the replies. I "get it", but not as well as I would like:eek:

[CEHARRIS3]

Can anyone steer me to a relatively in-depth treatment of Preset Manager and its relationship to saved brushes, etc. I know there is a video tutorial on the issue here, but I am running Vista, and the videos crash my computer 75% of the time (so badly I have to restore my system from an earlier date)..so I am afraid of using them. I just don't seem to understand how this relationship works...it never seems consistent. I raised this question once before and I thought I understood, but find that I don't.
I have no fewer than eight reference books on Photoshop Elements (4 and 5) and would you believe the only book which even references the Preset Manager is "Photoshop Elements 5 for Dummies" (and one paragraph at that!).:o