: Exporting a layer loses its transforms I have a layer in photoshop that I want to shrink (scale down by 50%), then export as a PNG. Right now if I click the layer, transform it, then export

@Nimeshi706

When Photoshop exports it uses the canvas bounds as the defining area, not the visible pixels.

I suspect you have a whole lot of transparent pixels around your smaller layer (50%) image. If you want to export visible pixels your canvas needs to be the size of the visible pixels.

There are a couple ways to do that:


Use Image > Image Size to resize the image (canvas) rather than transforming a layer.
After transforming a layer, use Image > Trim > Transparent Pixels to remove all the left over canvas.


If the goal is to keep the existing document canvas at it's current size you can copy the transformed layer to a new document, then use the Image > Trim operation on the new document.

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