Free Transfrom Tool

when to use to scale, rotate, skew, or distort a selection, a text layer, or a shape layer drag actions scale corner handle drag one axis scale side handle drag rotate drag the disc outside the bounding box skew ctrl + side handle distort ctrl + corner handle symmetric distort ctrl + shift + corner move the rotation pivot drag the disc center increase the rotation handle size page up button decrease the rotation handle size page down button reset the rotation pivot double click the disc center how to use make a selection , or select a text / shape layer press ' ctrl+t ' to invoke free transform for text/shape layers, you can use free transform function directly without having to select the free transform tool the bounding box and rotation disc appear drag any handle to transform text and shape layers are parametric , so you can transform them any numbers of times without quality loss