Marquee tool with rotated image

[Kim Howells]

Hi Damo.  I have placed a few images, and rotated them using the "handles".  I now want to select a portion of an image, to "trim" the top and bottom of the photo.  I would usually use the marquee tool, and apply a layer mask.  But as the image has been rotated, I can no longer do this.  Is there a way around it somehow?

[Damien Symonds]

I'm so sorry, I don't understand.  Why can't you use the marquee tool?

[Kim Howells]

Sorry, I wasn't very clear.  Here is the image.

 

Once I had rotated some of the individual images, I wanted to crop some of the images, eg crop in tighter.  Is there a way to do this when it has already been rotated?

[Damien Symonds]

The nature of your question indicates that you didn't use the Shape Tool to make vector clipping masks the way you should have?

https://www.damiensymonds.net/2011/12/simple-clipping-mask-and-storyboard.html

If you had done so, you'd simply Ctrl T the shape layer and change its size/shape to your heart's content.

[Kim Howells]

Correct, I didn't.   I didn't think of rotating a shape. #latenightbrain