Step 17: Drag the Crown
layer beneath the photo layer
so it appears behind her hair.
Press Command-T (PC: Ctrl-T)
to summon Free Transform
and a resizing box appears
around the shape. Position
your cursor just below the
white square handle on the
bottom right, and when your
cursor turns onto a curved
double-sided arrow, drag to
rotate the crown. To resize the
crown, c lick the same handle
and drag inward to make it
smaller or outward to make it
bigger (no need to Shift-drag).
To reposition the crown, c lick
inside the bounding box and
drag. When you’re finished,
press Enter.
That’s the basics of using shapes. You can also duplicate a shape by activating that layer
in the Layers panel and pressing Command-J (PC: Ctrl-J). Move a shape by activating that
layer, pressing V to grab the Move tool, and then dragging the shape.
In our final image, we duplicated the Light Bulb layer several times and each layer was
rotated using Free Transform to form a rainbow. To make some light bulbs appear behind
the subject, we dragged those layers beneath the photo layer. We also used built-in cloud
and confetti shapes (they’re at the top of the Layers panel, out of view).And if a shape looks too perfect, activate that layer in the Layers panel and run a filter
on it (say, Filter>Distort>ZigZag). Obviously, you don’t have to use built-in shapes;
if you’re skilled with the Brush or Pen tools, by all means, draw your own doodles. Until
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