Free transform won't take
I've got a movie clip, an image, that I'm trying to slightly shrink on one side in order to give it the illusion of a portrait sightly turned away from the veiwer. It's a really simple process that I've done countless times in Photoshop. But for some reason, it doesn't want to work in flash. I select free transform, hit the alt key and the little white arrow shows up. I drag one corner in, and I get the dotted lines telling me where this are going, but when I release nothing happens.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks for the reply.
I've spent some time this morning playing with that flash file you sent. Thanks for that.
Distort will mimick the shape that I'm after, but it isn't moving the picture, not like it would when you skewed it for example. Basically, distort is just trimming the edge. I need the image to look as if it is slightly turned away from me. The gradient that you sent me, definitely has this look, but I'm not able to duplicate it with an actual image. Maybe I'm missing something (certainly wouldn't be the first time )
Thanks again for the reply.
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Do you still have the original memory in that machine too? The metal plate you have to remove in the battery compartment also provides access to the RAM. Your machine will take 2 GB of RAM, possibly 3. You definitely want to max that out too.
Regardless, you definitely need a new hard drive. When Apple switched to PC components, they had to take a quality hit. These 2.5" notebook hard drives are not very reliable. I'm surprised your hard drive hasn't died by now. I usually get a new hard drive with every major OS upgrade. A $ 50 investment every couple of years is no big deal.
Unfortunately, you (and I) suffer from being an early adopter in 2006. Those 32-bit machines only accept 2 GB RAM (maybe 3) and are only 32-bit so they can't be upgraded to Lion. Because of this limitation, you won't see as dramatic an improvement as you would with a 2007 machine. If you run more than a couple of applications, your hard drive is always going to have to be doing some VM work. My 2006 machine has even lost its bluetooth. I gave it to my brother. My very similar 2007 Macbook is still running great.
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Text Free Transform Sizing Issues
First off I'm using Photoshop CS6 on a 2010 iMac.
Here is the problem, for example I open a blank file and type "ABC" in any font at at size (but for sake of ease lets say 72 pts in Myriad Pro). I then do a free transform (while holding shift to keep the size correctly scaled) and either enlarg or shrink the text. At that point if I try and change the text point size through the Character panel back to 72 points it sizes to the original size I set the free transform too, or lets say I try to increse the size to 100 pts, it gives me some random size that is not 100 pts. So regarless if I enter the size to 72 points, hit enter, the text will no longer be 72 points.
I run into this issue often because I like to eyeball my text sizes when I'm doing a project and Free Transform is perfect for this. But if I have several text blocks of the same size and I change the size of one and need to match the others to the new size, this issue make matching them very difficult and frustrating.
I know I can fix it by clicking "Character Reset" via the Character panel and then choose my desired font size but that takes time and I don't understand why photoshop wouldn't just give me the font size I choose regarless of free transform or not. Is there a way around this? Is this some setting of Photoshop that I can simply bypas, or is it a glitch with the new CS6 (I do not remember having this issue with CS5)?
Thank you in advance for your help.Noel Carboni wrote:
As usual, the only real way to tell what's better would be to install it and try it.
I know that Adobe HAS been doing some bugfixes, but like you I have no idea what's specifically fixed in 13.0.4. Since you have the option, I'd suggest trying it.
I could try the 13.0.4 update in a cloned system volume but have lacked the motivation, so far. Until I read of a fix for a single bug which has been detrimental to my use of 13.0.1, I'll make do with the software whose behaviour and results is known to me.
I do know that there has been no fix to 3D rendering being almost useless for Mac users for the 5 months since the 13.0.1 update inflicted the problem. Meanwhile, Adobe has had no problem allocating resources to adding 3D enhancements to the Cloud Photoshop to lure in more customers.
Who knows, it may fix the issue in this thread.
Sculp1n replied that their Ps with the problem is up to date when you asked whether they were running 13.0.4 or 13.1.2. I suppose it's possible that they are using 13.1.2, and 13.0.4 has fixes that aren't in 13.1.2. -
Layer via Copy, Free Transform, Multiple Layers, Doesnt work?
Hello,
I am using Adobe Photoshop CS6, latest version as of 05/25/12
I have 19 layers, each has a 1200x1200px texture. These are of course overlapped, so setting them all to visible will only show the top layer.
All layers are rasterized, and contain 1200x1200px:
1) I select all 19 layers using shift+click, all are highlighted (in the layer pane).
2) I select a region using the selection tool, in this case a rectangular region that is 172px high and 35px wide.
3) I right click the selection, and then select: layer via copy. (Note, Layer via cut is disabled for some reason)
4) *problem* It creates 19 new layers with the full image from the selected layers and not the selection which is what I wanted to place in the new layers.
5) *problem* when I right click the selection and select "Free Transform", the transform box surrounds the entire canvas and not the selection.
6) *problem* when I skew, it skews the entire image and not just the selection.
7) *problem* Previously, I have been able to select a layer from the layer pane, go to image menu, select adjustments, brightness/contrast, and adjust the brightness/contrast for just that layer. Now it wont let me.
8) *related problem* If I have 3 layers (background, 1, and 2) on a 1200x1200 canvas, with the image in layer 1 being 150px, and the image in layer 2 being 150x, each rasterized, and then stack the images on 1 and 2 over eachother, then select both layers, then select a region inside the stacked images, then select free transform, the free transform selection embodies all pixels inside the canvas (not the entire canvas this time) and performs the transform on these pixels and not the original selection.
If I do it making all the layers visible as well as selected, it behaves the same.
What appears to be happening is Photoshop is ignoring the selection and for some reason is using a pixel region (or if pixels cover the entire canvas, the whole image) when performing actions intended for the selection.
What's strange is when I made these textures, I started out with 19 150x150 pictures, I set the canvas size to 1200x1200, selected all the layers in the layer pane, selected the 150x150 image in the middle, and was able to move all 19 textures to the top right corner, able to switch to transform on all 19 pictures, able to rotate 180 degrees all 19 pictures, was able to flip horizontal all 19 pictures, then able to copy all 19 pictures to new layers, move the 19 pictures all at the same time to the right 150 pixels, rinse and repeat, to eventually come out with 19 1200x1200 textures tiled from the 150px pictures. In other words, I did exactly what I am attempting to do with the 1200x1200 pictures with the 150x150 pixtures and it worked like a champ.
Something has changed, maybe an option somewhere got clicked, something. I don't know.
The end goal of course is to take a selection of all 19 of the 1200x1200 pictures, transform, then skew that image to make a collage of images applied to an added background. Performing this on all 19 textures and getting the same exact skew, etc would take days considering I need to do about 15 of different portions of the tile.
Need some help here... is there an option somewhere that makes photoshop ignore the selection and perform the actions on all the images?
Best regards,
DustinJust ran into this problem today Dustin. You can only create new layers via copy from one layer. What I ended up having to do is copy all of my images that were on different layers. Then I merged them. Select all the images you copied>Layer>Merge. So now I have two copies of artwork on the same canvas. One that is all different layers and one that is now one layer. Then I was able to select the portions of the new merged layer I wanted and create new layers via copy. Then I erased the extra, merged layer.
You don't have to copy your initial images. I just did in case I wanted to edit them separately later.
I hope I understood your first problem correctly. -
I'm experiencing a very distressing bug when working at high magnifications - in some circumstances (which I can't quite nail down exactly) the Free Transform tool refuses to go into scale mode (it will rotate however) when I'm at 800% or more.
I'm working in Pixel preview at high magnifications, with a clone of the window open to the side @ 100%. I'm working on the zoomed-in window. When I select an object to scale and then select the Free Transform tool, nothing I can do at that magnification allows me to grab the corner handles. If I switch to the zoomed-out window I can scale, but then of course I lose the precision I need (I need to snap to pixels so I need the zoomed in view). I can also zoom out of my zoomed-in view, but again, I lose the ability to be pixel-precise at that point.
Has anyone else encountered this issue? Can anyone else duplicate it? I worry that it's my nVidia graphics card because it has all sorts of display issues with Photoshop and with the Creative Suite in general. But it doesn't feel like a graphics card issue since it has to do with the way a tool works, not the way something displays.
Thanks in advance,
TomI'm not sure what you mean by my logging in as a new user and trying to reproduce this bug. What exactly am I logging into? We're just talking Illustrator here. If you mean logging out of Windows and logging in as another user, I'm not sure what that will accomplish. Besides, my computer is a 1-user system so I won't be able to easily do that.
I have been able to determine the exact nature of the bug. It occurs when "snap to point" (which should be called "snap to pixel") is turned on and you are zoomed in to the point where your pixels are bigger than your snap tolerance. Illustrator erroneously enforces the snap on your mouse cursor, and won't register the click and drag against the bounding box handle, UNLESS that handle is within snap tolerance of a pixel. This is certainly erroneous behaviour. The snap enforcing should occur on mouse release, to be sure, but certainly not on mouse down. You should be able to pick up a point regardless of any snap condition.
If anyone has CS4 or CS5, try to reproduce the conditions I've described above and see whether it's something that was addressed in a future build.
Regards,
Tom -
Freezing when using free transform and more
I'm on a 12 core Westmere PM w/20g RAM running 10.6.8. with a standard Mac scrollwheel mouse. I have a Wacom tablet attached but it hasn't been used in weeks.
In the past week, I have encountered two mouse related freezing episodes that I cannot duplicate on purpose.
The symptoms are things like Transform handles that won't respond to mouseclick/dragging but responding to numerical entry. Or Liquify opening but unresponsive to any input whatsoever other than the ability to close the panel from a mouseclick. Or converting a layer to a Smart Object….applying a filter, and finding that the filter won't respond to mouse input. It's like arbitrary mouse input freezing or something.
I called this a "half crash" because the program still remains somewhat operable (files can be closed, saved or opened, numerical entry is possible in some instances or mouse clicking works on higher level meaning or window opening/closing) but in general, a great deal of functionality is disabled. Only a relaunch of Photoshop solves the problem. I've never seen anything like this in Photoshop before. The only other thing open at the time was CS6 Illustrator.
I am writing about this because I have no idea what sets this off and was wondering if anyone else has bumped into it. If you have, you might want to mention it here, as these intermittent glitches are a pain to track down without a number of users providing clues. Normally I wouldn't post something like this….but since it is a v.1 version of CS6….I thought it worth mentioning.I skipped CS5 and went from CS3 to CS6 - this is the standard Free Transform menu in CS6:
You're likely to get a quicker answer to your question if you post in the Photoshop users forum - http://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop - where there are a number of people still using older versions.
Good luck,
Clinyon -
Can't warp pasted AI vector Smart Object using Free Transform in PS CS6
Hi
I pasted a vector object into PS CS6 (13.0.1 x32) today directly from Illustrator CS6 (16.0.1 x32), and selected "Paste as Smart Object" (Windows XP Pro SP3).
I then tried to warp the pasted object using the Free Transform tool by dragging one of the corner handles with CTRL held down (Windows).
This usually warps\distorts the object, but instead, this launched a skew operation.
If I paste as Shape Layer or as Pixels then apply Free Transform, <Ctrl + corner handle drag> performs a warp\distort operation.
Also, if I rasterise the pasted AI object, and then convert to a Smart Object I can warp\distort.
Is it not possible to paste an Illustrator vector in as a Smart Object, and then warp\distort it directly using this technique?
Thanks for your help.
RichardYour right in that on a pasted vector smart one can't warp, distort or perform perspective transforms.
One workaround would be to right click on the vector smart object layer in the layers panel and
choose convert to smart object.
It depends on what your object is, but you'd probably get better quality from a pasted shape or path, but then you won't be able to open the object
back in illustrator from photoshop.
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