Computer Graphics with Photoshop

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Shrinking a Layer

Mic

2005-08-25, 7:14 am

Does anyone know how I can "shrink a layer by 5 pixels" whilst leaving the
other layers the original size? It's got me beat.
Also does anyone know a website that will give me some ideas how to create
type effects in photoshop?
Thanks,
Mic

Peter Wollenberg

2005-08-25, 7:15 pm

Mic <michael@shielm.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Does anyone know how I can "shrink a layer by 5 pixels" whilst leaving the
>other layers the original size? It's got me beat.
>Also does anyone know a website that will give me some ideas how to create
>type effects in photoshop?
>Thanks,
Got to the layer you want to shrink, Select->All (or Ctrl A),
Edit->Transform->Scale
Look at the status bar, the width and height of the layer are
displayed. Subtract 5 from either value and enter the new values into
the respective edit fields, press Enter

For the type effects you may look at myjanee's page:

http://myjanee.home.insightbb.com/tutorials.htm

and a whole bunch of other tuts on the web.

Peter

tacit

2005-08-25, 7:15 pm

In article <430db06c.20998562@134.96.4.2>,
jenelisepasceci@web.de (Peter Wollenberg) wrote:

> Got to the layer you want to shrink, Select->All (or Ctrl A),
> Edit->Transform->Scale
> Look at the status bar, the width and height of the layer are
> displayed. Subtract 5 from either value and enter the new values into
> the respective edit fields, press Enter

It is not necessary to use Select All. If you use the Transform command
with no selection made, it affects the entire layer.

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Mic

2005-08-26, 7:16 pm

Thank you for your help.
Much appreciated.

> From: tacit <tacitr@aol.com>
> Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com
> Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.photoshop
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:54:14 GMT
> Subject: Re: Shrinking a Layer
>
> In article <430db06c.20998562@134.96.4.2>,
> jenelisepasceci@web.de (Peter Wollenberg) wrote:
>
>
> It is not necessary to use Select All. If you use the Transform command
> with no selection made, it affects the entire layer.
>
> --
> Art, photography, shareware, polyamory, literature, kink:
> all at http://www.xeromag.com/franklin.html

Mic

2005-08-26, 7:16 pm

Thank you very much for your help.
Much appreciated.

> From: jenelisepasceci@web.de (Peter Wollenberg)
> Organization: University of Saarland, Computing Center, Germany.
> Reply-To: jenelisepasceci@web.de
> Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.photoshop
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:06:49 GMT
> Subject: Re: Shrinking a Layer
>
> Mic <michael@shielm.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Got to the layer you want to shrink, Select->All (or Ctrl A),
> Edit->Transform->Scale
> Look at the status bar, the width and height of the layer are
> displayed. Subtract 5 from either value and enter the new values into
> the respective edit fields, press Enter
>
> For the type effects you may look at myjanee's page:
>
> http://myjanee.home.insightbb.com/tutorials.htm
>
> and a whole bunch of other tuts on the web.
>
> Peter
>

George Dingwall

2005-08-26, 7:16 pm

Hi Mic,

You don't say which version of PS you are using, but I have written a
script for CS and CS2 which will resize a layer as a percentage of the
original size.

If this might be useful to you, email me at the following address if
you want a copy.

george.gdingwall(nospam)@virgin.net

Hope this helps.

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:55:50 +0000, Mic <michael@shielm.demon.co.uk>
wrote:

>Does anyone know how I can "shrink a layer by 5 pixels" whilst leaving the
>other layers the original size? It's got me beat.
>Also does anyone know a website that will give me some ideas how to create
>type effects in photoshop?
>Thanks,
>Mic

Bye for now,

George Dingwall

Invergordon, Scotland

http://freespace.virgin.net/george.gdingwall/index.html