Mastering The All Important Transform Tools In Photoshop

On this video, portrait photographer Nathaniel Dodson (from the website tutvid), looks at the different ways that you can use the transform tools in Photoshop to improve and increase your productivity.

There are so many things that you can do with the transform tools once you learn how to use them (and it isn’t that hard as this video will show you. There are also a number of very effective and time saving shortcuts which you can learn like ctrl T (for free transform) as well as things such as using the shift to constrain your transform and a number of tricks and methods including working with layers and the move tool and more.

The transform tools let you adjust perspective in an image, scale, skew, warp something, or move and tweak anything in Photoshop and adapt it to your liking.

Aaron Nace from Phlern also did a couple of videos looking at the important tropic of transforming in Photoshop which you are welcome to check here and here.

You can find many more Photoshop video tutorials on LensVid’s Photoshop section. You can also check Dodson’s previous videos here on LensVid.

Iddo Genuth

Iddo Genuth is the founder and chief editor of LensVid.com. He has been a technology reporter working for international publications since the late 1990's and covering photography since 2009. Iddo is also a co-founder of a production company specializing in commercial food and product visual content.