Free Transform Command

HI! I'm using Photoshop Elements 3. After I transfer my pictures to a background layer I try using the Free Transform Command. I hit the link (maintaining ratio) With the bounding box I am dragging the photos (to appear by my eye) to a size that "looks" the size I would like. I guess I'm at a loss as to why I crop them in the first place, if I'm going to resize them?? They are out of perspective--the people look skinny!
I am really a newbie and blonde to boot!

Terri,
Yes, resizing the image before dragging it onto a new background is a good
idea. Question is how to go about it. Once you drag the image onto the
background it will be the same resolution as the background. Let's say you
have an 8x10 background with a 300 ppi resolution and you want to put four
images on it. Ideally, you have all four exactly sized at 3.5x4.5 and 300
ppi. That won't look all that wonderful. But, do it anyway.
Using the Crop Tool, go ahead and resize your images that way and drag them
onto the background. Now, with the Move Tool, you can position AND resize
them.
When using the Crop Tool you'll have to set the width and height and the
resolution in the options bar. While resizing with the Move Tool you have
to hold the shift key while dragging a corner. There will be some
resampling occurring which can possibly degrade the quality of the image(s),
but we can worry about that at another time.
HTH
Juergen

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Transform command in the body of the script

Hi
We often need to do this procedure:
1. Resize the canvas of a portrait image to 1795x1205 pixels.
2. Use the Free Transform command to manually ajust the image in the new Canvas Size (so depending on the photo I can better fit).
3....continue the procedure.
Is it possible to tell a script to Stop for the user to adjust manually the image...then continue normally what´s written in the Script?
I´ve already written all the steps. It´s missing just this "Transform" command.
Thank you a lot
Gustavo

Hi friends...thank you a lot for this big help. It´s very helpful.
Now I have another challenge.... After resizing the canvas and transforming the last thing to do is to Print the document. But it seems not working (sure I must be writting anything wrong). The printer I need to print is a shared network printer (it´s in a connected computer called SEGUNDO-PC and it´s name is Sony UP-DR150. So the path is "\\SEGUNDO-PC\Sony UP-DR150"
If I just insert a command like documento.printOneCopy() (documento is the variable), it prints but the image get shifted from the paper and bad aligned...So perhaps I should first tell script the Print Settings? Here´s what my entire Script:
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var camada = app.activeDocument.activeLayer
function Transformar(){
var desc = new ActionDescriptor();
var ref = new ActionReference();
ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID('Lyr '), charIDToTypeID('Ordn'), charIDToTypeID('Trgt') );
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desc.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID('FTcs'), charIDToTypeID('QCSt'), charIDToTypeID('Qcsa') );
var desc2 = new ActionDescriptor();
desc2.putUnitDouble( charIDToTypeID('Hrzn'), charIDToTypeID('#Rlt'), 0.000000 );
desc2.putUnitDouble( charIDToTypeID('Vrtc'), charIDToTypeID('#Rlt'), 0.000000 );
desc.putObject( charIDToTypeID('Ofst'), charIDToTypeID('Ofst'), desc2 );
desc.putUnitDouble( charIDToTypeID('Hght'), charIDToTypeID('#Prc'), 100.001);
try{ executeAction( charIDToTypeID('Trnf'), desc, DialogModes.ALL ); }catch(e){};
function Ajuste(){
camada.adjustLevels (0, 255, 1, 0, 200)
camada.adjustColorBalance ([0,0,0], [-5,0,15], [0,0,5], true)
function ajustesimprimir () {
documento.printSettings.backgroundColor.hexValue = "ffffff"
documento.printSettings.bleedWidth = UnitValue(0, "cm")
documento.printSettings.caption = false
documento.printSettings.centerCropMarks = false
documento.printSettings.colorBars = false
documento.printSettings.copies = 1
documento.printSettings.cornerCropMarks = false
documento.printSettings.colorHandling.PRINTERMANAGED
documento.printSettings.activePrinter = "\\SEGUNDO-PC\Sony UP-DR150"
documento.printSettings.flip = false
documento.printSettings.hardProof = false
documento.printSettings.interpolate = false
documento.printSettings.labels = false
documento.printSettings.mapBlack = false
documento.printSettings.negative = false
documento.printSettings.RELATIVECOLORIMETRIC
documento.printSettings.posX = UnitValue(0, "cm")
documento.printSettings.posY = UnitValue(0, "cm")
documento.printSettings.printBorder = UnitValue(0, "cm")
//documento.printSettings.printerName = "\\SEGUNDO-PC\Sony UP-DR150" (If I leave this line Photoshop crashes)
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documento.printSettings.scale = 100
documento.printSettings.vectorData = true
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Tried to create a function to first set the Printer options then I call that function in the body...after calling the print copy. At true my desire would be Open the Print dialog box...but it seems not work too hehehe.
What´s missing?
Thank you a lot friends for this great help
Gustavo.

Controlling Resampling During Free Transform

When I grab pictures from the internet to modify them or use em for inspiration, I often need to resize them. Using Image>Image Size tool works if I have the image I am resizing in a seperate window.
Then I can select Resample Image: Bicubic Sharper. However using the free transform tool to scale down an image gives me no such option, causing the image to degrade in quality during free transform.
Is there anyway to set the Resampling for free transform?

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I am using Illustrator CS6 (Mac). I am using free transform tool. Why can't I use Shift Option Command to distort in perspective?

I am using Illustrator CS6 (Mac). I am using free transform tool. Why can't I use Shift Option Command to distort in perspective?

hong,
You need to ClickDrag just a tiny bit, then apply the Shift Option Command.

Free Transform multiple layers at the same time (only selected part)

Hi,
i have two layers - one contains color and second one contains outline. I want to select a part of the image and free transform both the layers at the same time. (so when i for example move or rotate the selected part of my example, both the color and outline moves at the same time). Layers must stay separated, process must be sort of quick, i would love to use this all the time when drawing etc.
- Only way i managed to make this somewhat happen was to select the desired part of the image -> save the selection -> new layer via copy (on first layer) -> reselect the saved selection -> new layer via copy (on the second layer) -> select both of the new layers -> free transform. Warp doesnt work but other transforms do. But still this process is too slow and distracting even when having all the required commands hotkeyed. Is there a faster way?
Any tips are welcome!

@Trevor.Dennis
i did understand, but as i said ctrl clicking the new layer only selects visible pixels in it, and my layers dont cover the whole canvas, especially not the outline layer, so ctrl click will only select that noodle of pixels and thats not usable in the other layer. (doing selection in the other layer first isnt a solution)
Better description of what exactly im after:
im manually drawing characters and i keep the their black "ink" lines/outlines on separate layer from the color layer. From time to time i want to transform small part of the character, lets say warp or rotate just its leg to fix or iterate, but i want to transform both the outline and color layer at the same time with that rotation so i see realtime how it looks. I would use this all the time if it was doable quickly. Transforms and puppetwarp are so powerful when drawing that as last resort i will have to switch to drawing everything on single layer.

Free Transform Problem in CS5.1

I am haveing an issue when trying to use the Free Transform funtion in Photoshop CS5.1. After pressing command+T, the bounding box appears, but when I attempt to resize, the program becomes unresponsive. After a minute or two I can cancel the Free Transform and the program become responsive once again. Seems to be more of an issue when trying to transform more than one layer at once.
I am on a 1 year old MacBook Pro with 16GB, I have 10 GB of free space.
I am on OS X 10.7.5 (recently installed this upgrade and this may be part of the issue.)
I am in 64-bit mode. My memory usage set at 70%
The cache tile size is set to 1024K
I have reset my settings, ran all available updates.
One suggestion was to try to update my vidoe card. My card specs are:
Video Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
Video Card Renderer: ATI Radeon HD 6750M OpenGL Engine
After visiting the AMD site, found that they do not have an update for 10.7.5 and do not have the HD6750 listed for Mac.
Any help is appreciated.
Edit: Also, cannot move the image once I press command+T.
(Or at least it make the program unresponsive for a while)
Update: Uninstalled entire design suite and re-installed. Still having the same issue.

You only have 10 GB of free space? You should have much more than that with the settings you are using. When you launch Photoshop is grabs it's scratch disk, space on the hard drive that backs up the RAM usage. It mirrors it exactly. So you are using 70% of 16 GB RAM, which would be 11.2 GB. This means the initial scrtach disk size Photoshop creates on launch is also 11.2 GB, which is larger than the free space you have available. You will need to free up some disk space to get things working. Or at the very least drop your RAM usage to something more managable by your available resources, like 30% (so you leave some space for other processes).
Also, have you tried with smaller files?

Can I Free Transform/Distort An Object Like Photoshop?

I need to distort an object much the way one would in Photoshop with Free Transform - Distort. That's the one where you can drag the corners wherever it suits your fancy.
The closest thing in Illustrator I can find is Effect - Distort & Transform - Free Distort. But this is a lot tougher because I just get a tiny picture of a grid; you distort the corners, and hope for the best.
Is there a way in Illustrator that will allow me to do this with the actual object?
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There's the Free Transform Tool.
Click a corner then hold down Command/Ctrl, Option/Alt, and shift then move the mouse to allow free transformations. The click-modifier-move order is important.

Photoshop CS4 Crash Free Transform Vector Objects

Hello!
I've a consistent ad recurring error and I wanted to see if anyone else has it.
The bug happens when I place a vector smart object either an Illustrator file, or pasting from InDesign.
I place the object, and confirm.
Then, when I hit "command t" to free-transform, Photoshop hangs for a second and then crashes.
It happens every time, on every type of Photoshop file, on any type of vector content.
I can place an EPS file, and the error does not occur.
Any suggestions?

I'm having the same thing happen with CS4 11.0 (I was running 11.0.1 before the crash),
Anytime I hit the transform command tit hangs then freezes... but never recovers. It crashes the whole system and I need to reboot.
Intel iMac, running OS X 10.5.7
I've trashed preferences, repaired permissions and reinstalled Photoshop (not the entire creative suite).
I used to have CS3, but it's been uninstalled but I'm not pointing the software to any other plugins... so I'm lost.
Any ideas?

Free transform the image

Hi Forum!,
Im new to scripting. Thanks to forum for sharing the knowledge to entire world..
I have a small request to do with the scripting.
I have grouped all the pageItems.... as G.
and then selected the Group (G),
i have choosen the free transform tool using the command;
app.menuActions.itemByID(45569).invoke(); //to choose free transform tool.
all that i need to do is.. to enlarge the height of group (G) proportionally between top margin and bottom margin.
(which we do it manually by selecting the grouped item holding Shift+Alt key, and dragging untill we reach the desire size).
g = app.activeDocument.allPageItems;
gr = app.activeDocument.groups.add(g);
app.menuActions.itemByID(45569).invoke();
//then i need to increase the height of the group g between top margin and bottom margin.
Can anybody help on this free transformation of the selected group.
please..
Dhinak...

try sthg like:
var g = app.activeDocument.allPageItems;
var gr = app.activeDocument.groups.add(g);
var bgr = gr.geometricBounds;
var hgr = bgr[2]-bgr[0];
var pm= gr.parentPage.marginPreferences;
with(pm)
var t = top;
var b = bottom;
gr.move([bgr[1],t]);
var hn = gr.parentPage.bounds[2] - gr.parentPage.bounds[0] - t - b;
var s = hn / hgr ;
tM = app.transformationMatrices.add({horizontalScaleFactor:s, verticalScaleFactor:s});
gr .transform(CoordinateSpaces.INNER_COORDINATES, AnchorPoint.TOP_CENTER_ANCHOR, tM );

Applying identical free transform to second object?

Please excuse my lack of techinical knowledge, I am trying to learn my way through AI via trial & error since I don't have time to read a book or so.
I think I understand what paths/anchors are used for and how basic perspective transform works (holding cmd/control and perhaps option and/or shift). I have an object that has already been distorted via Free Transform so that the perspective is changed. I have a logo I would like to add onto the surface of the object.
My assumption is to use Free Distort again, but how to mimick the same distortions to the correct angles? I have experimented with grabbing corners of the bounding box and trying to snap them to corresponding anchor points of the background perspective shape...but it's not really working out.
What am I missing?
I've tried searching for perspective and free transform tool tutorials, but they mostly just show how to distort into a new perspective but not how to 'mimick' or align to an existing perspective.
Thanks!

You did that the wrong way you would first position that which you wish to map to the relative position of the object it is being mapped to then group
the two and then use the free transform.
The other way is to use the #D Effect's Rotate command and rotate and give it some perspective within the dialog. Then you can turn your art that you wish to map into a symbol which then can be mapped by going back to the effect by accessing it in the appearance panel which will allow you to bring up the 3D Rotate Effect dialog.
You then click on Map Art button and then select the surface you need to map the art to and then select from the drop down the symbol you made of your art and you can see liv the preview on your art.
You would actually make the art into a symbol before apply the 3d effect but I wanted you to see that you can keep the effect live and even after you save a close the art you can still remove or remap different art.
Now most important is that this is Illustrator and you are not going to learn it by trial and error and so it is important for you to get a book like Mordy Golding's Real World Illustrator. For certain Mordy writes much better than probably any of us when it comes to methods, techniques and the workings and fundamentals of Illustrator and the other Adobe programs. Otherwise you are going to be very limited in what you ca do and the amount of time you spend trying to figure it out is going to be a lot more than you will spend reading Mordy's book.
The really good thing about the book is that is written in a way so that it is one fast reading and easy to retain.
Do yourself a big favor and read the book.
After all this is Illustrator and not an easy program to learn.

CS3 Free Transform Tool does not work at all for distortion

I tried everything, worked with vector objects of different configurations and rasterized objects. Nothing works. When I press Free Transform Tool and go to bounding box corner it become rotate or resize tool. When I click a little bit inside the bounding box and hold Command Key (I tried many keys and without keys) it just moves the whole object, it did not select just one point that I need. Envelope Mesh does not work for the same reason, but I do not need mesh tool. I have Illustrator 13.02, Mac OS 10.4.11
The Free Transform Tool functions exactly as the main selection tool. Please help.

I STILL cannot get this to work. I have tried everything suggested in this thread. I have followed the directions in the help menus explicitly. I have tried grouping, ungrouping. I have tried it on type, on type changed to outlines, on simple rectangles. Without success.
When I try to use the free transform tool and hover over a corner of the bounding box, I get either a double-headed corner arrow, a rotation arrow, or a move arrow. Using the first two, dragging the point and then holding down the control/command key results only in a scaling of the object.
Should I restart? Should I re-install? What should I do?
Best,
Fielden

Free transform tool fail

Hello.
Im really frustrated with how the free transform tool works for me (or in that case, it doesnt work)
I am using Illustrator CS4 on a PC.
Adobe Help for that software states:
Select one or more objects.
Select the Free Transform tool .
Start dragging a corner handle on the bounding box (not a side handle), and then do one of the following:Hold down Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) until the selection is at the desired level of distortion
First of all Im unable to select anything with the free transform tool, so I use the regular selection tool first to select my object.
As you can see after selecting the object I have selected the free transformation tool, grabbed the corner and pressed Control Key on my keyboard (tried both keys as well). The transformation tool refuses to work as it does in Photoshop.
I have tried to reset my keybindings to Illustrator default.
I have tried first clicking the corner, holding it and then pressing down the CTRL without moving the mouse as was stated on some other forums googled with this issue.
I have tried setting my keyboard to American US in Windows.
As you can see the object is a very simple rectangle, its not a part of any type of group.
Im working on a european version of CS4 Master Collection bought in London UK.
I have tried this on a US version that I have at work, it has the same issue.
I have seen and followed the instruction from various YouTUbe movies and the tool simply wont comply to my commands.
I am pissed.
Halp pleez?

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Placed raster images will not distort with the Free Transform Tool.
Linked (as opposed to embedded) raster images will not distort.
If you enclose an embedded raster image in an Envelope (ex: Make With Mesh, 1 Row 1 Cell), then it can be distorted by the Free Transform Tool using the modifier keys, without having to dink around with the Envelope handles.
JET

Free Transform multiple objects...

It would be very nice to have the ability to select multiple layers/objects and free transform them about their respective orientation points rather than one, shared point.
For example, I am creating a large grid of items that are all in 1" X 1" squares and get them all spaced correctly on the gird, only to find out that each one needs to be increased slightly in size, BUT keep them centered in their respective squares. But the way I currently do it, I have to go item by item adjusting the sizes individually. A better option would be to be able to select all the objects, check a box that says "Transform by individual Orienation Point" and then go about resizing the one free transform box and having each object transform about their own orientation point, thereby saving me a tremendous amount of time and work.
The odd thing is, this feature has already been implemented (in a roundabout way) in InDesign already (here), you would think it would have found its way into Photoshop by now.
Feel free to let me know if I am missing something that is already implemented? Thanks!

So all your squares need to be upscaled by precisely the same amount? You can can record an Action that will perform the scale on the first. Then just re-run the Action with a shortcut on all the other layers, you can even automate the "move to next layer" step, so just hitting a single key will transform as many layers as you want one by one very quickly. Transform again (command shift T) will misregister them unfortunately.
Another option is for you to have set the squares up as instanced Smart Objects (if they are all the same). Then scaling one object in Image Size will scale them all instantly.
What you asked for is an interesting request, but its hard to see how it would be useful generally.

Free Transform Default Transform Type

Here's an interesting one that Google can't seem to help with. Normally when you use the "Free Transform" tool it'll allow you to scale and rotate your layer. In my case it defaults to distort and rotate. I know I hit a keyboard shortcut somewhere, but I can't figure out how to switch it back to the default behaviour. I have tried to reset all tool, but that didn't work. Has anyone come across this before. Is there some kind of keyboard shortcut I accidentally hit that would this?
Thanks for you help!

Jeez sounds like the command key is stuck down. What does your cursor icon look like, when it is over a transform point?
Arrowhead pointing 10 o'clock - Command key is down to distort
2 Headed black arrow - normal scale
What happens if you hold down command and try to transform?
From Adobe Help incase this helps identity how your transform acting:
To distort freely, press Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS), and drag a handle.
To skew, press Ctrl+Shift (Windows) or Command+Shift (Mac OS), and drag a side handle. When positioned over a side handle, the pointer becomes a white arrowhead with a small double arrow.
To skew numerically, enter degrees in the H (horizontal skew) and V (vertical skew) text boxes in the options bar.
To apply perspective, press Ctrl+Alt+Shift (Windows) or Command+Option+Shift (Mac OS), and drag a corner handle. When positioned over a corner handle, the pointer becomes a gray arrowhead.

CS3 Illustrator and Free Transform Tool

I have a problem with the function Free Transform Tool in Illustrator to OS X. After clicking on the icon Free Transform Tool object can become distorted. I got command key, I'm with the cursor in the corner, but does not work. Tried the instructions here: http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Illustrator/13.0/help.html?content=WS714a382cdf7d304e7e07 d0100196cbc5f-646d.html, but it also does not work. By someone he did not know where could be the problem? Thanks a lot.

Use Effect>3D>Rotate to rotate the PNG into a perspective plane. It is not as accurate as the distortion mesh method, but it might work for you.
Alternatively, you can use the distortion mesh method and edit the mesh with the mesh tool directly. It is tedious because you'll have o move the anchor points and direction points separately (The free transform tool does this for you in one step).
A third option is to download the 30-day free trial of AICS4. You can make the distortion then open the file in CS3.
I don't have CS4 either and I am forced to keep 2 versions of Illustrator on my machine because of this bug.
Adobe should not force users to upgrade, just to get a bug fix.

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