2 questions for Photoshop elites (tough questions)

[Collember]

1) If you are using CS1 or 2 (definately in CS2), on the layer pallette there is a button named "Create a new group" which is next to the "create new layer". Grab the layers you wish to transform and place these into this group. Select the group in the layer pallette, then Ctrl+T. Transformed..

2) If you NEED to be in fullscreen mode, the best you can do is have the tools displayed, so that when u have finished with the text tool, using the mouse click another tool to escape the text tool.

Hope this helps

[BlueFlare]

2) When I'm in full screen mode and I use the TYPE tool...how do I "ok" it? (sorry if I don't know the correct terminology but its where you click the "check mark" button on the toolbar) because in the full screen mode...the toolbar isn't there and pressing escape will undo all the work you did to the text...

Press ENTER on the numeric keyboard.

[Datameister]

Press ENTER on the numeric keyboard.

Excellent tip, BlueFlare. I'll have to keep that in mind. It's frustrated me on more than one occasion. Thank you!

[BlueFlare]

You're welcome ;)

[Denart]

1) If you are using CS1 or 2 (definately in CS2), on the layer pallette there is a button named "Create a new group" which is next to the "create new layer". Grab the layers you wish to transform and place these into this group. Select the group in the layer pallette, then Ctrl+T. Transformed..


I have CS2 and I tried what you wrote but that doesn't work when your transforming a selection from the lasso tool.


and big thanks to BlueFlare! awesome tip

:)

[LoTekK]

Press ENTER on the numeric keyboard.
And if you don't have easy access to the numpad Enter (eg, you're on a lappie), then ctrl-Enter works as well.

[Collember]

I have CS2 and I tried what you wrote but that doesn't work when your transforming a selection from the lasso tool.

I may not know all the areas of PS but, may i clarify. You are wanting to select with the lasso over say two layers, and you wish to transform this selection?

If this is so, this will not affect the content of the layers, because the group would need to flattened. As for transforming the content itself, this can be done as i said.

What are you trying to achieve, maybe there is a way to do this, without the way you wish to do, which seems unlikely.

[antonymuse]

hi,

the answer to your second question, - after typing your text in any mode just hit ctrl+enter, and there you go :)

[halo]

you can only transform multiple layers if you dont have an active selection...if you have a selection you can only transform that selection on the layer you have selected. Yes, its a pain.

[Denart]

I may not know all the areas of PS but, may i clarify. You are wanting to select with the lasso over say two layers, and you wish to transform this selection?
yeap

you can only transform multiple layers if you dont have an active selection...if you have a selection you can only transform that selection on the layer you have selected. Yes, its a pain.
dang...


my friend proposed the idea of using "CTRL-J" to copy the selection from the multiple layers, flattening those newly pasted layers and then transforming from there. It makes sense and seems to be the only way
(CTRL-J is just like copying/pasting but its better because it places the new layer directly on top. regular copying/pasting nudges the new layer a bit to the side...)

[pgraham]

To use your lasso with a layer set (or group) just make it into a mask... While you still have your lasso selection, create a layer set, then add a layer mask to it (the button to the left of create layer set). The selection will be loaded as a mask for the layer set. Now when you move or copy layers into the set, the mask will apply to all of them. When you transform the set, all the layers and the mask will be transformed together.

[halo]

it might help, but that will transform the selection, which can be done anyway, it wont transform the selected area relative to the document with the selection being transformed as well in linked/grouped layers which is different.

if you imagine the words "CGTALK" copied on 10 layers, selection just the T and rotating it on 6 layers by 45 degress leaving the CG ALK together...

[pgraham]

You'd have to duplicate each layer, apply the lasso mask to each duplicate, put the inverse mask on the original layers (to cut out the lasso), link the duplicates, and then transform them. Then merge the transformed duplicates with their originals.

This is actually not good practice, because of anti-aliasing. When you use the lasso (and when you transform), anti-aliasing creates partially transparent pixels along the edge of the selection. So if you transformed multiple layers with the same lasso, you would be able to see colors from the lower layers through the edges of the upper layers, where you couldn't see through before. Instead of applying the same mask (or lasso) to multiple layers, you should generate a composite and apply the mask to it once. This is what a layer set lets you do.

[halo]

i dont think your following...you cant move a selection relative to its own layer with your method.

the only way around it is to save selection and repeat transform

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