From PS 5 to PS cs3 Numeric Transform

Hi all I recently did a huge upgrade from PS 5 to CS 3

I love CS3 but I'm finding I have to go back to PS 5 to do mumeric transforms (in edit)...I can't find them in the edit of CS3 anywhere....

Am I just missing it somehow or is it gone out of PS?

Ayanna

By "numeric transform", do you mean you want to type digits for the various transformation amounts, like scale by 50%, rotate by 45 degrees, that sort of thing? If that's what you mean, then you're about to slap yourself for not noticing that the answer is hiding in plain sight, right at the top of your screen.

Underneath the file menu is the tool settings bar. Every time you select a tool (including Transform), the bar changes to show all the options available for that tool. Hit ctrl-T (or do it the long way Edit -> Free Transform), and you'll see the tool settings bar change. Take a look at the fields. All the options are there. On the left you have the location of the pivot point. Immediately to the right of that, you have your height and width fields (by default these are set to percentages, but if you want exact pixel values, just type "px" after your number). Then you have degree of rotation, and finally degree of skew.

If that's not what you meant by "numeric transform", please explain.



By the way, the Transform options don't stop with those number fields, so you know. There's an amazingly cool option, called Warp, which was added with CS2. See that little icon off to the right of the skew fields, the one that looks a little like a frowning robot face? (It's actually a bent grid with a rotational arrow underneath it, but I like 'frowning robot face' better. ) Click it, and you'll see something very cool happen. A grid appears over your selection, with Bezier handles on it. You can now push and pull the handles, or areas of the grid itself, in any direction you want, to completely change the shape of object being transformed. It's great. (No numbers here, though, sorry.)

Thank you Chosen Few!

Aren't the simplest answers sometimes the hardest to find?

That was exactly what I was looking for... @ me!

My life is now easier thank you so much!

Ayanna