This adjusts the precision of the cage transform grid. Transforming a straight banana to be curved with the cage tool. If you have at least 3 points on the canvas, you can choose to switch between deforming and editing the existing points. Cage ¶Ĭreate a cage around an image, and when it’s closed, you can use it to deform the image. Unlocking the points back into edit mode. Locking the points will put you in transform mode. This allows you to subdivide the selected area into a grid. You can divide these either by subdivision or drawing custom points. The flexibility determines, how strong the effect of moving these points are. These change the algorithm used to determine the strength of the deformation. There are warp options: Rigid, Affine and Similitude. Warp allows you to deform the image by dragging from a grid or choosing the dragging points yourself. You can also change the size, shear and position transform while remaining in perspective with the tool-options. You can drag the corner points, or even the designated vanishing point. While free transform has some perspective options, the perspective transform allows for maximum control. Video of how to use the anchor point for resizing. Furthermore, the button to the left of the anchor point widget allows you to choose whether to always transform using the anchor point, or not.
If you look at the bottom, there are quick buttons for flipping horizontally, vertically and rotating 90 degrees left and right. When you move the center pivot point, pressing Alt will allow you to limit it to the transformation bounds. Holding the Shift key will maintain your aspect ratio throughout the transform. This allows you to do basic rotation, resizing, flipping, and even perspective skewing if you hold the Ctrl key. The parameters are split between five tabs: Free Transform, Warp, Perspective, Cage and Liquify.įree Transform docker. You can fine-tune the transform tool parameters using tool options docker. You can also click anywhere inside the selection or layer and move it by dragging the mouse. You can perform rotations by moving the mouse above or to the left of the handles and dragging it. When you first invoke the tool, handles will appear at the corners and sides, which you can use to resize your selection or layer. These are all powerful options and will give you complete control over your selections/layers. In addition, you have the option to apply advanced transforms such as Perspective, Warp, Cage and Liquid. Basic transformation options include resize, rotate and skew. The Transform tool lets you quickly transform the current selection or layer.