Have you ever asked yourself how to scale picture via photoshop? It’s very easy, you can do that in a few easy steps. This is tutorial for beginners, everyone can do this. Everybody can learn how to scale an image in Photoshop. Well, lets start..

First you should select you layer.

On the right side of your desktop you should see LAYERS

It’s marked as ‘1’ on this picture.When you click on layers you should see panel like this one on picture marked as ‘2’.

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Next step is in top panel.

Go to EDIT–>>>TRANSFORM–>>>SCALE

IT’s showed on picture below…

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After you done these steps, you will see gray border around selected layer.

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Now you can scaling down/up selected layer.You just need to click on some rectangle on gray border line, hold on click and move your mouse to scale your layer.

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So,it didn’t hurt? It was really ease and short tutorial how to scale a photo in Photoshop.

About the Author: Garlak Theodorakis

My name is Garlak Theodorakis, I am graphic designer with almost 10 year experience in the field. Founded Tooft.com in january 2010 with idea to share my knowledge with the world.