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Free Transform Shortcuts in Photoshop - or
Photoshop Free Transform Keyboard Shortcuts
category: graphics, digital photography and image editing
You can do anything with Free Transform (Ctrl+T) more quickly if you know the keyboard shortcuts rather than selecting one option at a time from the Transform menus, even the Free Transform popup (right click anywhere in the image window).
Here are the keyboard shortcuts:
SCALE: Hold Alt and drag any handle.
ROTATE: Drag outside the bounding box.
FLIP any old way: In this case maybe you should use the popup (right click anywhere in the image window).
SKEW: Just Ctrl drag a side handle. Add the Shift key to constrain the slant.
DISTORT: Ctrl drag one of the corner handles.
PERSPECTIVE: Hold Ctrl+Shift+Alt and drag a corner handle.
To repeat the last transformation on another object, press Ctrl+Shift+T.
He said on 10.22.05 @ 09:46 AM CST
