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Move And trAnsforM sMArt object lAyers
Photoshop makes scaling, rotating, and other transformations fairly easy to implement,
but it is important to realize the potential impact of your transformations.

1. With aftermath.psd open, click the Tantamount layer (in the Logos
folder) in the Layers panel to select only that layer.

2. Choose the Move tool in the Tools panel.
As the name suggests, the Move tool is used to move a selection around on the canvas.
You can select a specific area, and then click and drag to move only the selection on
the active layer. If there is no active selection area, you can click and drag to move the
contents of the entire active layer.

3. In the Options bar, make sure the Auto-Select option is not checked.
When Auto-Select is checked, you can click in the image window and drag to move Note:
the contents of the layer containing the pixels where you click; you do not need to first Deselect all layers by
select the layer in the Layers panel before moving the layer content. This is very useful clicking in the empty
in some cases, as you will see later in this project. However, the Auto-Select option is not area at the bottom of the
very useful when the contents of multiple layers are stacked on top of each other (as is Layers panel.
the case in your file as it exists now).

4. Click in the image window and drag until the Tantamount layer content
snaps to the bottom-right live-area guides.
If you toggled off the Snap feature when you used the Crop tool, you should turn it
back on now by choosing View>Snap.
This option should
not be checked.
Move tool

With no marching ants in
the image window, select
the layer you want to move,
then click and drag in the
document window to move
the layer’s contents.

5. Click the Rating layer in the Layers panel to select that layer.

6. Click in the image window and drag until the Rating layer content snaps to
the bottom-left live-area guides.
Note:
7. With the Rating layer still active, choose Edit>Free Transform. You can also use the
When you use the transform options, bounding box handles surround the selection. Edit>Transform
submenu to apply specific
transformations to a layer
or selection.

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