Computer Graphics with Photoshop

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Transform Error

Charles Kinghorn

2007-03-10, 10:14 pm

I know I am missing some small detail; but for the life of me, I
cannot see it. And it is getting frustrating.

I have a photograph of a building. In the first layer I have rotated
the building slightly to correct the central verticals. In the next
level I intend to skew the image to correct slight keystoning. This is
not working. Instead, I am getting the message "Could not transform
the selected pixels because the selected area is empty".

I know the message means that somehow the layer I defined for skewing
is not connecting properly with the background layer. If I flatten the
image it will work, but that is not what I want. And why would the
rotate layer work but not the skew one, since they are both affecting
pixels in the background layer?

Any suggestions? I am working in CS3 but the problem is the same in
CS2.

Charles Kinghorn

ronviers@gmail.com

2007-03-11, 4:14 am

On Mar 10, 6:32 pm, Charles Kinghorn <charlesREM...@CAPScharking.com>
wrote:
> I know I am missing some small detail; but for the life of me, I
> cannot see it. And it is getting frustrating.
>
> I have a photograph of a building. In the first layer I have rotated
> the building slightly to correct the central verticals. In the next
> level I intend to skew the image to correct slight keystoning. This is
> not working. Instead, I am getting the message "Could not transform
> the selected pixels because the selected area is empty".
>
> I know the message means that somehow the layer I defined for skewing
> is not connecting properly with the background layer. If I flatten the
> image it will work, but that is not what I want. And why would the
> rotate layer work but not the skew one, since they are both affecting
> pixels in the background layer?
>
> Any suggestions? I am working in CS3 but the problem is the same in
> CS2.
>
> Charles Kinghorn

I tried what you describe and it worked fine. I do not know why it is
not working for you.
As you probably already know if you group the layer into a smart
object then multiple transformations will not add errors.

Gddo luck,
Ron