The modes of transforming images, which are available to the user of the graphics editor Adobe Photoshop, allow you to resize both the entire picture as a whole and individual layers. It is easy to do both for those who are used to controlling everything with a mouse, and for those who prefer not to take their fingers off the keyboard.
Necessary
Graphic editor Adobe Photoshop
Instructions
Step 1
Start the graphics editor and load the file containing the layers that you want to reduce into it.
Step 2
Select the layer you want to work with. You need to do this in the panel opened by pressing the F7 function key or by selecting the "Layers" item in the "Window" section of the Photoshop menu. If you need to reduce several layers equally, flip them all with the left mouse button while holding down the Ctrl key. To reduce the grouped elements, it is enough to select only the line with the folder in which they are collected.
Step 3
Turn on the transform mode of the image. This can be done through the menu of the graphical editor: open the "Editing" section, go to the "Transform" subsection and select the "Scaling" item. You can replace all these manipulations by pressing the Ctrl + T keyboard shortcut (here T is Latin).
Step 4
If you need to reduce the size of the selected layer while maintaining the original proportions, click on the icon with the image of a chain of two links. It is placed between the boxes labeled "W" and "H" in the Options panel. This panel is placed in a narrow strip along the top or bottom edge of the Photoshop window. If it is not visible, enable display through the "Window" section in the editor menu by selecting the "Parameters" item.
Step 5
Set new dimensions to the image in the reduced layer. This can be done by changing the numbers in the "W" (width) and "H" (height) boxes on the options bar. It is not necessary to enter new values from the keyboard, just click on the desired window and use the up and down arrow keys, while controlling the resizing visually. If the aspect ratio is on, changing the value in one of the windows will automatically change the number in the other.
Step 6
You can use a mouse instead of the Options Bar. After turning on the image transformation mode, a frame with anchor points appears around it - they can be dragged with the left mouse button, thereby changing the size of the picture. The proportions of the image will be preserved only when dragging points in the corners of the frame while holding down the Shift key.
Step 7
To turn off the image transformation mode, press the Enter key.
