At its most basic, light painting looks like neon signs hovering in the air. Take a picture in a dark area for 10 seconds while you wave a flashlight around and the whole path of the flashlight will be caught in the image as one big light trail. If you need to go back and edit your selection, once you’re in transform mode, tap and hold the selection icon.Light painting is quite literally painting with light while a camera captures the scene with a long exposure. We’re gonna go ahead and select all of our layers by swiping right on each one and then let’s just make a selection here and you can see we can transform just that part. You can select and transform multiple layers at a time.

You can even, like, fold over, grab in the middle, and move it around and just get really weird with it. The distort function allows you to manipulate like this if you drag on the corners, or if you grab the edge, it’ll kind of make a shearing effect, and then there’s also the warp option, which you can really get crazy with. If I tap the transform arrow without making a selection, that’s gonna select the entire contents of that layer. Tap, tap, tap in any direction to nudge your selection pixel-by-pixel.Īnd we’ll zoom back out. If you need to zoom in while in Transform Mode, hold down the arrow icon with one finger and spread out to zoom. And no matter what when you do this, it will always maintain that same size ratio. Another way to resize objects is by pinching and zooming. If you have magnetics on you’ll get little guides when you move around, and if you resize, you’ll maintain the uniform shape. If you turn the magnetics off you can kind of move freely and you can resize any which way you want. You can use the options at the bottom to flip, rotate, you can also grab this little green handle and rotate. This is what you use to move elements around the canvas.

I’m gonna first select the F and then tap the arrow to access the transform tool.

Ipad painting tutorial