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aDavidAlan
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July 18, 2025
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A Smart "Flip"

  • July 18, 2025
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There are often times when I have a product box, and for the sake of composition, it would look much better if the box was facing left, but the photography I have points to the right.  It would be easy to just flip the box horizontally and improve the composition 100x, excep there's a bunch of writing and graphics on it, and it takes time to change the perspective of every single graphic, piece of text, or other detail that would make it obvious the box was flipped.  It would be very helpful if Photoshop had a smart flip that would flip the object, but detect the graphics/text (or even give an opportunity to select the elements that can't be reversed) and keep those elements facing the correct direction, but change the perspective/angles to match the newly flipped object.  

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D Fosse
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July 18, 2025

...and if you need to alter the perspective of text, do it using smart objects. That's what they're for.

jane-e
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July 18, 2025

@aDavidAlan 

 

This can be done if you are using layers and not a flat image. Select the layer and use Edit menu > Transform to flip the layer that does not have text.

 

Jane