Going into "Transform"

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JayD
Jun 21, 2006
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Using CS2……..
I am making a montage by opening photos and placing them on a new image.
As soon as I drag the photo onto the new file, it goes into "Transform" mode –
handles appear, mouse curser turns into rotating arrows, and menu options are grayed out.

When I first tried doing the montage over the weekend, I was opening the photos, resizing them down then moving them to the new image. The other day I tried using Transform for the first time, but decided against it. Now it’s going into transform by itself.

What gives?
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noone
Jun 21, 2006
In article ,
says…
Using CS2……..
I am making a montage by opening photos and placing them on a new image.
As soon as I drag the photo onto the new file, it goes into "Transform" mode –
handles appear, mouse curser turns into rotating arrows, and menu options are grayed out.

When I first tried doing the montage over the weekend, I was opening the photos, resizing them down then moving them to the new image. The other day I tried using Transform for the first time, but decided against it. Now it’s going into transform by itself.

What gives?

Hm-m, curious. Many times I’ve wished that I could lock in Free Transform to start when I was doing multi-Layered assemblies, instead of having to hit Ctrl-T, when each image was placed, but I’ve never heard of it starting as a default with this operation.

When something quirky happens in PS, a good first-step is to trash your Prefs and then re-set the Cursors, Scratch Disks, etc. Do this, before you do any sort of re-install, etc.

Hunt
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edjh
Jun 21, 2006
JayD wrote:
Using CS2……..
I am making a montage by opening photos and placing them on a new image.
As soon as I drag the photo onto the new file, it goes into "Transform" mode –
handles appear, mouse curser turns into rotating arrows, and menu options are grayed out.

When I first tried doing the montage over the weekend, I was opening the photos, resizing them down then moving them to the new image. The other day I tried using Transform for the first time, but decided against it. Now it’s going into transform by itself.

What gives?
With the Move tool selected, uncheck Show Bounding Box on the Options Bar. It’s not really going into Transform, though you can do Transform things with the bounding box handles.

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edjh
Jun 21, 2006
Hunt wrote:
In article ,
says…
Using CS2……..
I am making a montage by opening photos and placing them on a new image.
As soon as I drag the photo onto the new file, it goes into "Transform" mode –
handles appear, mouse curser turns into rotating arrows, and menu options are grayed out.

When I first tried doing the montage over the weekend, I was opening the photos, resizing them down then moving them to the new image. The other day I tried using Transform for the first time, but decided against it. Now it’s going into transform by itself.

What gives?

Hm-m, curious. Many times I’ve wished that I could lock in Free Transform to start when I was doing multi-Layered assemblies, instead of having to hit Ctrl-T, when each image was placed, but I’ve never heard of it starting as a default with this operation.

When something quirky happens in PS, a good first-step is to trash your Prefs and then re-set the Cursors, Scratch Disks, etc. Do this, before you do any sort of re-install, etc.

Hunt
See my reply to the OP. Maybe you want to check Show Bounding Box.

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http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/edjh.html
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JayD
Jun 21, 2006
With the Move tool selected – there is a check box above for "Show Transform Controls"
that was checked.
Problem solved. .

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