How to Resize? 1

[bsquared18]

I'm sure there's an easy way to do this:

I used the polygon-lasso tool to trace a person's face and then pasted the selected part into another Photoshop file that has as its basic layer a colored background.

So the colored background is Layer 0 and the person's face is Layer 1. Now I want to reduce the size of the face while keeping Layer 0 the same size. But when I select Layer 1 and try to use Image --> Image Size, both layers change size, so the face has not gotten smaller in relation to Layer 0.

What do I do to change just the size of the face in Layer 1 without affecting Layer 0?

Thanks!

Bill B.

 

[jimoblak]

Image size affects the entire image, as you have seen. You want to transform the particular layer...

CMD-T (Mac) or CTRL-T (PC)

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[bsquared18]

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I searched through all the "resize" topics in Adobe Photoshop help. You'd think this one would be easy to find, since it has got to be a very often-used feature.

Sincerely,

Bill B.