Adobe Photoshop Visual QuickStart Guide

15. Essential Transformations

In This Chapter

• Using Free Transform

• Using Perspective Warp

• Using Puppet Warp

• Using Content-Aware Scale

• Align and Blend Layers

Beyond adjusting colors and retouching details, Photoshop enables you to transform layers, selections, and paths in ways ranging from the mundane (moving, scaling, rotating) to the miraculous (Puppet Warp, Content-Aware Scale). For example, in this chapter you’ll learn how to change perspective, so it’s as if the camera captured the image from a different angle. In addition to the basics of transformations, we’ve also included an obscure but powerful technique for increasing depth of field that uses Photoshop’s ability to stretch and twist multiple layers into a perfectly aligned stack ...