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[ryan]

Hey is there any way to do this in Photoshop? its one technique i havent learned and ive found that it would be useful to know. what i mean like..is just making a polygonal shape for example, and making it symmetrical somehow..thanks for the help.

[theguid]

you can copy and image and then paste and edit->transform->flip horizontal/vertically. is that what you mean?

[Andy]

Yea.. the guid is right....

I dunno if you worded this wrongly, but if you mean flip the selection without it being filled in??

well, once your on your selection, make a new layer
fill it in (alt backspace)
deselect, then flip it (see above)
then, on your layers palate, hold CTRL and click the thumbnail...
with it still selected, delete the layer.

Thats the only way i know about doing it, if you trying flipping when its empty, it just says something like.. the selected area is empty

Andy

[Penaf]

This was one question i had written on to ask here when I had the chance ... i found a way to do what you're asking (it would be great if photoshop had a mirror option as in AutoCAD!).
I use this thechnique while I don't find one better: Select what you want to "mirror", then hit "layer by copy" (i think this is the right translation*), flip this new layer at will and then merge the new layer with the original!


* Anyone expert with photoshop in english please translate what i've just said

Hope I was useful
Take Care