Rotation/Scaling/Layers Tutorial
by Tom aka Night4554

    1) Open up Blender
    2) You should see this something resembling this:
    The most important part of the picture is the square in the center.  (If you don't have it, press space>>Add>>Mesh>>Plane)
    3) Press the R key when your cursor is inside the upper window.
    4a) Move your mouse around in a circle.  The plane will rotate around it's center.
    4b) Press the left mouse button to anchor the plane
    5) Locate this grouping of buttons:
    6) Press the one that looks like a target, the third from the right.
    This is a rotation around the cursor.
    7) Left Click a little bit further out and away from the plane.
    8) Press the R button and practice rotating around the cursor.

That was rotating. Now we will move onto scaling. Before though, press the first button in rotation/scale selection buttons located here to the first button, the arrowed arc without the dot in the middle, or the rotation/scaling around the boundbox center.

    1) Press the S key when your mouse is inside the upper window.
    2a) Move your mouse out from the plane and toward it.  The plane will grow and shrink around it's center.
    2b) Press the left mouse button to anchor the plane
    3) Once again press the button for rotation/scaling around cursor. (Remeber here)
    4) Press the S button and practice scaling around the cursor.

That was scaling. Now we will move onto layer moving.

    1) Locate the layer buttons here:

Each of these buttons represents a layer. The numbers of 0-9 will automatically jump to those layers. Otherwise you have to click each button with the mouse.

    2) Press the number 2 above your keypad, not on your numberpad
    3) Press the number 1 above your keypad, not on your numberpad
    4) Practice flipping between layers
    5) Hold Shift and press another number on your keypad. This shows multiple layers at once.
    6) Use the mouse to select more layers, holding down the shift button.  This shows multiple layers at once.
    Now we will be moving objects to other layers.
    7) Go back to the first layer
    8) Select the plane
    9) Press the M button, and press the second button, for the second layer
    The plane should now disappear.
    10)View the second layer.  The plane should be there.

    New Commands-

    R- rotates the selection
    S- scales the selection
    Rotation/Scaling around Boundbox Center- Allows you to rotate and scale relative to the purple dot of each mesh
    Rotation/Scaling around Cursor- Allows you to rotate and scale relative to the cursor
    0-9 (above your keypad, not on your numpad)- flips between those layers
    SHIFT+0-9orSHIFT+Mouse on layer buttons- show multipe layers at once