Dragging (with Free Transform) - Quality Loss?

[NOSukhbaatar]

Dear all

I just copied a layer (with a person in it) into another photoshop PSD file (with a background), but the pasted picture was not in the right position.

So I used Free Transform in order to drag the person to the correct position. I did not resize the picture (just dragged it)!

Does this lower the quality?

[Chuck Uebele]

No, it shouldn't. You don't have to use free transform to move it, if you're not transforming, it. Just use the move tool.

[NOSukhbaatar]

Thanks for your answer.

Are you sure that there is not even a slight loss of quality?

I have read that using the Free Transform Tool to rotate an object (for example) could result in a quality loss...

[Trevor.Dennis]

NOSukhbaatar  wrote

I have read that using the Free Transform Tool to rotate an object (for example) could result in a quality loss...

Chuck was saying no problem if there is no distortion of the image.  Rotation is not going to have as much impact as warping, for instance, but you usually need to sharpen a wee bit after using Free Transform.  Take note of the Interpolation options in the Options bar.  They work much the same as with resizing.  Nearest Neighbour can do terrible damage, and is best avoided.

[NOSukhbaatar]

Thanks Trevor!

I have understood now that rotating and warping lead to some degree of quality loss.

But using Free Transform just to drag an object/subject to a new position does not lower the quality at all?

Sorry for repeating the question again, but I wanna be 100% sure..

[Bojan Živković]

Dragging object to a new position in free transform mode without any other transformation does not result in quality loss.

[Chuck Uebele]

Rotating could result in loss of quality, as you are changing the orientation of the pixels.