Adobe ADBCD17648MC Manuale Utente

USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 8
Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos

Do one or more of the following to transform the object:

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To scale, drag any handle of the bounding box. To scale the width and height proportionally, either press Shift as 
you drag a corner handle, or select Constrain Proportions in the options bar, and then drag a corner handle.

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To rotate, move the pointer outside of the bounding box and drag. When positioned outside the bounding box, the 
pointer becomes a curved, two-sided arrow

 

. Press Shift and drag to constrain the rotation to 15° increments.

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To distort, press Command, and drag any handle. When positioned over a handle, the pointer becomes a gray 
arrowhead

 

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To skew, press Command+Shift and drag a handle in the middle of any side of the bounding box. When positioned 
over a side handle, the pointer becomes a gray arrowhead with a small double arrow

 

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To apply perspective, press Command+Option+Shift, and drag a corner handle. When positioned over a corner 
handle, the pointer becomes a gray arrowhead

 

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Do one of the following:

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To commit the transformation, double-click inside the bounding box, and then click the Commit button

 

, or 

press Enter.

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To cancel the transformation, click the Cancel button

 

, or press Esc.

Before you can apply transformations to the Background layer, you need to convert it into a regular layer.

Select the Background layer in the Layers panel.

Convert the background. 

Apply the transformation.

The Recompose tool facilitates intelligent resizing of photos without changing important visual content such as people, 
building, and animals. Normal scaling affects all pixels uniformly when resizing an image. Recompose affects pixels in 
areas that don’t have important visual content. Recompose enables you to upscale or downscale images to improve a 
composition, fit a layout, or change the orientation. For a demo on the Recompose tool, see