Transform tool and cropping

Martin de Jong

• July 06, 2022 19:03
• Edited

I used the Transform tool for the first time the weekend. The aim was to multiply and merge smoke patterns from a cropped original. While working on it I noticed that in Transform the crop was ignored.
Is this expected behavior or did I do something wrong?

Thanks in advance. 

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  Rick Sammartino Community moderator

  • July 07, 2022 02:14
  • Edited

  Expected.

  • The Transform tool works on one whole layer at a time weather it's cropped or not.
  • The crop tool works on the whole project which includes all layers together. One crop is applied to all of them at the same time.

  From the description of what you were trying to do, you don't need to crop your smoke patterns, instead, you need to mask out the areas that you don't want and then use transform to align the layers as needed.

  Depending on what you need for your project, you might consider turning your smoke into a Brush Stamp instead. There is an example of that here...

  https://on1help.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360074493331/comments/360013559112

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