rotating selection

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Linda Gregory
Jan 8, 2006
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I have tried to find how, and I know it can be done, to turn a selection without turning the image. I make an oval with the marquee tool and wish to rotate the oval but not the image inside the oval.

As always, thanks in advance!

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Linda Gregory
www.exais.com
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Tacit
Jan 8, 2006
In article <Dy0wf.4018$>,
"Linda Gregory" wrote:

I have tried to find how, and I know it can be done, to turn a selection without turning the image. I make an oval with the marquee tool and wish to rotate the oval but not the image inside the oval.

Free Transform. Press Control-T (or Command-T on the Mac).

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kctan
Jan 8, 2006
Go to menu, Select>Transform Selection

"Linda Gregory" wrote in message
I have tried to find how, and I know it can be done, to turn a selection without turning the image. I make an oval with the marquee tool and wish to rotate the oval but not the image inside the oval.

As always, thanks in advance!

—
Linda Gregory
www.exais.com
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nomail
Jan 8, 2006
tacit wrote:

In article <Dy0wf.4018$>,
"Linda Gregory" wrote:

I have tried to find how, and I know it can be done, to turn a selection without turning the image. I make an oval with the marquee tool and wish to rotate the oval but not the image inside the oval.

Free Transform. Press Control-T (or Command-T on the Mac).

No, ‘Free Transform’ will rotate the image in the selection. The OP only wants to rotate the selection (the ‘marching ants’) itself, not the contents. You do that with ‘Transform Selection’.

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Linda Gregory
Jan 8, 2006
How I have been doing it is to make my selection, making a new layer, filling the selection with a color, then rotating that to where I want it, using the magic wand to select the painted area that is now an oval at an angle and deleting the top, extra layer and the oval is where I want it. I know there is a key stroke combination to allow me to rotate the oval without using a second layer or changing my image at all, but what is it?

Linda Gregory
www.exais.com
www.delanocolor.com
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Scott Schwartz
Jan 9, 2006
"Linda Gregory" wrote in message
How I have been doing it is to make my selection, making a new layer, filling the selection with a color, then rotating that to where I want it, using the magic wand to select the painted area that is now an oval at an angle and deleting the top, extra layer and the oval is where I want it. I
know there is a key stroke combination to allow me to rotate the oval without using a second layer or changing my image at all, but what is it?

Linda Gregory
www.exais.com
www.delanocolor.com

Can you still do a selection set a quick mask and then transofrm that? I don’t see why this would have been removed in the first place.

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