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I suspect you mean Transform >Distort. The behaviour of transform has changed in the recent update. Where previously the shift key was used to constrain the transform , it now works the other way round and the shift key is used to unconstrain the transform.
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Did you get this resolved on your own? Here's what I see when I follow your link:
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Hi Derek,
I had tried all the Mac shortcuts and none picked up the cursor widgets:
Usually Grab works if I choose a timed screen, but the cursor kept flipping to an a standard arrow.
If it worked for you, please post a screen shot!
Otherwise maybe we can convince Trevor.Dennis to draw one of his famous pictures for us of the cursor graphics / widgets.
light-trap,
If you use Preview and take a timed screenshot under File>Take Screenshot>Entire Screen that should capture the cursor.
A few examples below:
jane-e wrote
light-trap wrote
Although I've been using Photoshop for over 10 years I don't understand what you mean by this:
" look at the cursor graphics, you will see helpful additions to the cursors to show what to expect."
Hi Derek,
I tried to take a screen shot with Grab (Mac) and after failing a half dozen times, I will try to write it. I think what Trevor is talking about it the widgets that accompany the cursor. They change depending on what you are about to do, and I always keep an eye on them.
I'm pretty sure Trevor.Dennis means watch the cursor as you work. If not, he'll come back and tell us.
Jane, I put up some graphics in another thread last week, but like you say, you can't grab the screen complete with cursors, so I faked it by making my own. Unfortunately, I can't find that thread, and I pasted the graphics to the forum, so don't still have them.
Greatly exaggerated for clarity, this is the Ctrl drag middle handle on the top and bottom sides.
- Ctrl (Cmd) along has the left-right arrows to indicate that you can only drag let or right, and not up and down (Skew)
- Adding the Shift removes that restriction, and is indicated as such, but the left/right arrows now longer showing.
- The left and right middle handles have the same behaviour rotated 90°
Unfortunately, there is no visual aid when dragging corner handles. The cursor is the same regardless of whether Shift is pressed,
We can do this
But can only do the following by adding the Shift key to Ctrl (Cmd)
I think that lack of a visual aid is a missed opportunity, and doubly so when you consider the completely predictable confusion the changes have caused.
Try using Perspective Crop. It now has the same requirement of needing the Shift key to allow free movement of the corner handles. Now that is going to cause some consternation because there is no other way to use Perspective Crop without dragging the corner handles. So that is going to catch out new users who would probably use Free Transform one movement at a time, or if they were feeling clever, using the right click menu. That is not an option with Perspective Crop. BTW I thin I have just discovered that you can't use Perspective Crop when the document has Shape layers. You never stop learning.
So here we are getting to grips with the new behaviour, when we find it does not apply to Shape layers. I am visualising side walks covered with computer monitors outside houses with broken windows.
............... but like you say, you can't grab the screen complete with cursors................
Take a look at Techsmith's Snagit - you can grab screenshots complete with cursor
Drag corner:
Move cursor further away and option to rotate appears:
Move cursor further still and white arrow cursor appears - this is the point at which the transform will auto-commit if you click.
Dave
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