Tuesday 17 December 2019

Move Tool (Tool Box) - Photoshop Basic Tutorial

Move Tool - [ V ]


In simple words move tool is used to move the contents.
The tool can be enable with shortcut 'V'.
It can be used to move a layer or selected portion of a layer;
    - to a particular distance in that workspace,
    - to another workspace opened in Photoshop at the same time.

When click on move tool, there is a set of options visible at the Options Bar, below the menu bar.


First thing on the options bar is the symbol of selected tool 

Auto Select - By enabling this option, you can easily select a layer with a single click on mouse.

Layer / Group - This option decides, whether the Auto Select option consider the Groups or take everything as Layers.

Show Transform Controls - By enabling this option, the selected layer will be bounded by transform controls, so that we can simply Scale or Rotate the layer.

Next options are 4 categories of Alignment. You can choose each options after selecting two or more layers. It will arrange those layers according to their current position and size.