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photorock:


--- Quote ---PhotoRock, please follow these directions exactly and you will see what I described:

1. Go to "NEW" and open a brand new "canvas" (or "window")

2. Look at the layers panel. It will show only 1 layer and it will be labelled "background".

3. Do no click the marquee tool or anything. Hit CTRL-T. Does anything happen? No.

4. Go to EDIT, and look at the Transform menu options. They are greyed out.
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            Your right, the Free Transform tool is grayed out when you are working on the Background Layer of a flattened image.


--- Quote ---Now you will say that's exactly what you were saying right? That you HAVE to make a selection first. However this is not true. Only true when PS thinks you're working on the bottom "Background" layer.
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             It is true. You have to have an Active Layer or Selection on the Active Layer (Background Layer or Copy of Background Layer) to use the Transform tool.


--- Quote ---Proof of this, follow these directions:

A. Using the same canvas/window opened before, drag the background layer to the "make layer" icon so that you duplicate it, creating a new layer.

B. Now still without making any selections, do steps 3 and 4 from above. See? Now you CAN use the Transform tool without making a selection. And THIS is what is confusing SylentWolf.

Sorry if I offended you PhotoRock. Your post was not wrong, but I wanted Sylent to understand the circumstances where PS would allow transform, and where it would not, because that is the problem he was encountering (as I understand it--I could be wrong  )
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              Yes, your right, becouse you are on the Active layer (the Background Layer copy). I guess the point you are trying to make is that the Free Transform tool is grayed out when you are on the Background layer and available on any other layer even a copy of the Background layer without using the marquee tool.

              So what's your point, everything you said is common knowledge to anyone who has been using Photoshop for awhile. You haven't proved that anything I said was wrong. You disregarded everything that was posted here by myself and others.

photorock:


--- Quote ---Sorry, meant that I'm dragging it from one canvas to another, not pallette.
I also hate using marquee tools. If I want to re-size (scale, transform, whatever) the whole layer, why can't I just click on it with the pointer and have done with it without screwing around with the stupid marquee tool?
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             Hey Sylentwulf, sorry we got off track here.

             If you are dragging an image from one file to another file then you should be able to use the Transform tool once you click on the layer of the file you want to alter. If the Layers menu is not on your desktop hit F7 then select or click on the layer you want to transform. Hit Ctrl T to transform and Enter when you are finished.

             If Ctrl T doesn't work, check to see that you are on the correct layer. If you are on the Background layer, Ctrl T will not work without a selection first (Ctrl A). If you are and still have the problem then the problem may lie elsewhere with the file you are using.

             If this or anything posted here in this thread does't solve the problem, then please let us know and we will try to help.

RayB:



               ;D





Sylentwulf:

I managed to bludgeon it into submission.
I had about 30 files to re-size, move around and merge, and only ONE of them was giving me a problem (the most important one ironically enough)
I ended up having to use the marqueetool, and couldn't re-size it to the exact pixel I was looking for, and it took MANY re-sizings to get it nearperfect, but it's done :)

I'll be killing my bandwidth by uploaing it to my site and letting people download it for a day sometime soon.

freezen2001:

forget photoshop and try adobe illustrator... vector art will never lose its clarity or become pixelized since they use mathmatical formulas to resize.. its the same at 2 inches as it is at 20 feet!  had kinkos print my marquee from a vector file i downloaded off here and it turned out awsome!

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