Distorting Images

Original Image

StretchingTo begin with I stretched the apple by grabbing it’s lower handle and pulling down. Objects can also be evenly shrunk or enlarged by holding down the Shift key, clicking on a corner handle and dragging.

RotationNext I rotated the banana approximately 180 degrees by selecting it’s layer, hovering outside a corner of the selection box, clicking and dragging the banana in an anti-clockwise direction

Skewing This was the last technique I tested and chose the orange as my subject. The easiest way to do this is to hold down the Ctrl key, click on one of the corner handles of an object and drag

Final Image

For my final image I decided to use all of the techniques listed above to create an interesting yet strange image. To begin with I made sure that the blue background was the lowest layer and the silhouetted scene was the top layer. Next I rotated the apple and placed it in the top left hand corner to create a sort of “sun”. I skewed and squashed the orange even further to give it a sense of movement and placed it in the top right hand corner to add a kind of “UFO”. With the scissors, I rotated, shrunk and placed them next to the figure in the centre of the image to give the illusion that they are a young child. Finally I skewed the red square and placed it next to and behind the banana to create a child’s slide.