Photoshop Power Tip: Use transform again to create complex patterns
Sep 25, 2016
Udi Tirosh
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
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The transformation tool in Photoshop is quite mighty. You can rotate, flip, stretch, squeeze and distort your selection.
Here is a less known secret: With this little trick you can repeat the last transformation as a copy – so you can build all kinds of complex ornaments, wings and patterns within seconds.
Here is how to make this work:
- select the transform tool (edit -> transform -> free – or ctrl+t)
- select the anchor point
- select your transformation (rotate / scale and so on)
- Now you do a transform again + copy layer (ctrl+shift+alt+t)
The sample you are seeing the video is from the Raw Exchange Light Wings package.
Udi Tirosh
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
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5 responses to “Photoshop Power Tip: Use transform again to create complex patterns”
Wouldn’t Ai be better off for this?
For pixel based images like this one: no.
Why do you think it could be better?
Stefan Kohler You used Illustrator?
Yes.
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