Hello all and hope your weekend as well as Valentines Day was a sweet one.

 

I’m just learning my way around Photoshop and was wondering if someone could give me some help with layering.

My question is;  Is it possible to resize a layer after you have moved it over to your picture, or do I need to undo the move and resize and move back over to my picture every time?

Hope that was understandable

Thanks much

Steel

I'm not sure I understand your question properly, but if you select your layer and go to Edit/transform/Scale, you should be able to resize all that's on that layer.  You'll see those little "markers" (not sure what they're called in english, I'm attaching a pic to show you), just put your cursor over one of the corners, hold shift and drag that little marker to resize the way you want it.

Attached Link: Layer Styles Tutorial

Hi Elliot,

Yes, what Lucie said.

I've got a new Photoshop tutorial up on my website that has a little on this in it, and some other things too, just in case you're interested, (see the link above.)

You can resize, rotate and do lots of other things with layers too.

Thanks guys  Your help is much appreciated

Here's a REALLY HELPFUL TIP!

Okay you know how sometimes you paste or add layer and the image is kinda' real big?  (and we can use Lucies tv in the above post as an example...) so you grab the handle points and you resize it down and hit the apply button.  Oh man! you made it too small! now if you select it and resize it upward, it's all fuzzy and looks like crap. This is because whenever you transform the image you are destroying pixel information. your only option is to re-import the layer/image are try to get it right the first time...

This time BEFORE you resize it, select the layer and from the layers palette (click the little arrow by the tabs) scroll down and select CONVERT TO SMART OBJECT. This will keep the layers graphic at the imported resolution (or size) and allow you to resize it smaller and then if you change your mind and found you went to small, you can resize it upward again without any loss of clarity. 

 I work with SMART OBJECTS all the time. Great time saver when trying out different comping ideas.

Oh yes, that is good to know!  I didn't know about that one, thanks!

Especially useful with the transform gizmos are the perspective and distort functions. I use those quite a lot to make whatever I'm importing into the picture fit properly.

Quote - Here's a REALLY HELPFUL TIP!

Okay you know how sometimes you paste or add layer and the image is kinda' real big?  (and we can use Lucies tv in the above post as an example...) so you grab the handle points and you resize it down and hit the apply button.  Oh man! you made it too small! now if you select it and resize it upward, it's all fuzzy and looks like crap. This is because whenever you transform the image you are destroying pixel information. your only option is to re-import the layer/image are try to get it right the first time...

This time BEFORE you resize it, select the layer and from the layers palette (click the little arrow by the tabs) scroll down and select CONVERT TO SMART OBJECT. This will keep the layers graphic at the imported resolution (or size) and allow you to resize it smaller and then if you change your mind and found you went to small, you can resize it upward again without any loss of clarity. 

 I work with SMART OBJECTS all the time. Great time saver when trying out different comping ideas.

 

Oooooh!

That is nice to know, thanks very much.