- If you hold down the Alt key (Option key) in the vicinity of
a pin (rather than over a pin), you’ll see a rotation indicator
around the pin, as in Figure 8-29. If you subsequently drag,
you’ll rotate your image (any part that’s not “pinned down,”
so to speak) around that pin. For instance, by Alt-dragging
(Option-dragging) down in the example in Figure 8-29, I
was able to pivot the forearm into that unnatural position.
(If you try it, be sure to undo when you’ve finished play-
ing puppet master.)
Figure 8-29.- The pins have a depth assigned, meaning that if you drag
a “deeper” pin (one that was created earlier) past those
that you set later, the section of the image that the deeper
pin controls will appear behind the rest of the image. Try
dragging the arm all the way down, and notice that it goes
behind the thigh. You can change the order in which Pho-
toshop prioritizes the pin depth (which pin drags material
behind the other) in the Pin Depth settings in the options
bar. Ctrl+Z (�-Z) to undo. You gotta admit that it’s weird
that you can distort an image so that it’s behind itself.
282 Lesson 8: Transform and Distort