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Opening & Adding More Panels:
All of Photoshop’s panels can be found under the Window menu, so to open any panel, choose it from there, and it will appear floating over your image
area. To add it to a panel group, click-and-drag its tab right over the tabs in the group where you want it to appear (here, I’m adding the Character panel to
a group). That entire group of nested panels will have a blue highlight around it (seen here), letting you know you’ve targeted that group. Let go of the tab
and the panel is added to that group. If, instead, you see a thin, blue horizontal bar, that means you’re creating a new horizontal row of panels. If, as you’re
dragging a panel, you see a blue vertical bar, you’re creating a new column of panels.

Free Transform: Rotating, Flipping & Other Important Stuff
You already learned earlier in this chapter that we use the Free Transform feature to resize things on a layer. However, this feature is like a Swiss Army
knife of transformations because it will do so much more. Let’s do a quick project that will introduce you to some of the other important things you’ll be
using Free Transform for, besides just resizing.

Step One:
We’ll start by opening the background image (this is an image I downloaded from Adobe Stock of stadium lights—we’re going to build a Fantasy Football
party invite graphic). Since this is just a generic stadium lighting background, I want to add an American-style football field to the bottom of it, so I also
downloaded a field image. To get the field photo onto our stadium lights background image, open it, then press Command-A (PC: Ctrl-A) to select it.
Now, press Command-C (PC: Ctrl-C) to Copy the field image into memory.