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Skewing and distorting a layer

Skewing and distorting a layer - Photoshop Tutorial

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Skewing and distorting a layer

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- [Instructor] All right. Now I'm going to show you how to use the Free Transform command to both skew and distort a layer. But before we revisit that command, I'm going to go up to the window menu and choose history in order to bring up the history panel, which will show me that I've applied free transform, in my case, three times in a row. This is a very bad thing. And that's because anytime you scale, rotate or otherwise transform a pixel-based layer, Photoshop has to rewrite every single pixel in that layer. And so if you apply free transform multiple times in a row, then you're going to rewrite those pixels multiple times which amounts to a destructive modification. Now we're going to see an exception to this when we take a look at smart objects in a future chapter, but for now, just make sure that you apply Free Transform one and only one time to any given layer. So I'll click on a history state before the first…

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