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September 30, 2020
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How to make a crooked rectangular selection.

  • September 30, 2020
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I would be greatly appreciated if anybody knows how the make to make a crooked rectangular selection!!

 

I've tried to rotata a rectangular selection, but apparently there's no way to make it "empty" so I can rotate it without rotating the image underneath.

 

I have Photohop cc2015

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Correct answer Norman Sanders

After making the Selection choose Select > Transform Selection. You can move, rotate and change the dimensiions of your Selection. Then click OK

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Semaphoric
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SemaphoricCommunity Expert
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October 2, 2020

Another approach would be to use Quick Mask mode and the Move tool (with Show Transform Controls checked). An advantage of this is you can also run filters on the selection itself (not the contents) to modify its edges, such as Liquefy or Color Halftone. When you exit Quick Mask, the selection will be modified, but the image will be untouched.

Barb Binder
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Barb BinderCommunity Expert
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September 30, 2020

Hi Default:

 

There are several transform commands:

Edit > Free Transform 

Edit > Transform > ...

and

Select > Transform Selection. 

 

Norman said Select > Transform Selection. This will transform the marching ants. The Edit > Transform commands transform the pixels within the selection. 

 

~Barb 

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
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    default0u4yt94376iuAuthor
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    October 2, 2020

    Yeah Thanks!!! Just found out how easy it was, and that I've been totally focused on "Edit" as the only way to Transform selections (talk about tunnel-vision 😄 )

     

      Barb Binder
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      Barb BinderCommunity Expert
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      October 2, 2020

      No worries! We all do that at one time or another. 😊

       

      ~Barb 

      ~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
        pixxxelschubser
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        pixxxelschubserCommunity Expert
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        September 30, 2020

        No.

        @Norman Sanders wrote:

        choose menu: Select > Transform Selection (and not menu: Edit)

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          default0u4yt94376iuAuthor
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          October 2, 2020

          Yeah Thanks!!! Just found out how easy it was, and that I've been totally focused on "Edit" as the only way to Transform selections 😛 (talk about tunnel-vision 😄 )

          Norman Sanders
          Norman SandersCorrect answer
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          September 30, 2020

          After making the Selection choose Select > Transform Selection. You can move, rotate and change the dimensiions of your Selection. Then click OK

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            default0u4yt94376iuAuthor
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            September 30, 2020

            Thanks for answering 🙂 but the point is that I want to rotate the selection BEFORE I transform whats inside it - like rotating an empty selection without changing the image underneath.

            Norman Sanders
            Norman Sanders
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            September 30, 2020

            That what I had written. To put it another way, make the selection and when you see the marching ants defining the Selected area, choose Select > Transform Selection. The marching ants defining the area can then be moved, rotated, have their dimentions altered while the image is unmoved. Only the Selection has been altered. When you are satisfied with altering the marching ants outline, click OK to rreturn to marching ants on thre image.

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