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110 Manipulating Images

• For a constrained skew effect, press

Shift+Ctrl

and drag the

edge along its line.

• For constrained skew relative to the fixed point, press

Shift+Ctrl+Alt and drag the edge along its line.

To rotate the region about the fixed point, drag from just outside a

corner. To constrain rotation in 15-degree steps, press the Shift key

after you've begun rotation, and hold it down until after you release

the mouse button. You can change the location of the fixed point

(see below).

To reposition the fixed point, move the cursor to the exact center

until a small target appears, then drag. The fixed point can be moved

anywhere—even outside the deformation region. Great for arced

rotations.

For even more sophisticated warping effects, you can use mesh warping (see

below). Aside from minor cursor differences, the following instructions also apply

to the Deform Mesh Tool included on the Mesh Warp Tool's Context toolbar.

Mesh warping

The Mesh Warp Tool works like the Deform Tool outfitted with complex

curves. It lets you define a flexible grid of points and lines that you can drag to

distort an image, or part of an image (or layer). You can edit the mesh to vary its

curvature, and even custom-design a mesh to match a particular image's

geometry—for example, curves that follow facial contours—for more precise

control of the warp effect.

The Mesh Warp Tool works on Background and standard layers, but not

on text layers or shape layers.

When you first select the tool, a simple

rectangular mesh appears over the image,

with nine nodes: one at each corner, one at

the center, and one at the midpoint of each

edge. Straight lines connect adjacent nodes.

A context toolbar also appears to support the

Mesh Warp Tool.

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