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View>Rulers or press Command-R
[PC: Ctrl-R]). Drag guides to touch
the outside edge of your wheel on
the top and bottom, and the left and
right sides.
Now, choose your Elliptical Mar-
quee tool (Shift-M) and drag from
the top-left crossover of the guides
to the bottom-right corner of your
guides. To help you out here, make
sure View>Snap To>Guides is turned
on to ensure your ellipse starts at
precisely the crossover point of your
guides. I’ve added a green stroke
here to show what the selection
looks like. When you’ve created your
ellipse, you’ll notice it’s the right size,
but the wrong perspective.
With your selection active, go
to Select>Transform Selection. Now
you’ll see the same bounding box
you’re used to with Free Transform,
but instead of moving or altering
pixels, it will only affect the active
selection boundary and not the pix-
els on the active layer.
Now that you can see your
bounding box around the selection,
go to Edit>Transform. Here, you’ll
see that the same options for trans-
forming pixels are available as before.
Choose Distort (Edit>Trans form>
Distort) and this will make all of the
transform handles for the bounding
box free to move independently. This
is when you can move one corner
in to create a distorted perspective
angle if you need to. For this exam-
ple, we only need to move the top-
center, right-center, and left-center
handles to distort the selection to
fit the elliptical angle of the wheel
in this perspective. But if you had
something in a really extreme per-
spective angle, moving the corner
handles independently allows you
to match any angle you need.