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Correcting perspective

Correcting perspective - Affinity Photo Tutorial

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Correcting perspective

- [Instructor] Here's a billboard poster on a typical street and I want to move the poster from this street, to this one. And it's a very different perspective viewpoint, so we're going to have to do a bit of trickery here. Let's go back to our original, and we can start by using the Perspective tool. We'll choose it from the toolbar, and the default is Destination mode, and that means we can pick up any of the handles and as we drag them it changes the perspective viewpoint. That's not what we want in this case, although we will look at this later. So let's cancel, that resets it to the original, and we can bring up the tool again. Let's change the mode from Destination to Source and I'll move the panel out of the way. Now we can pick up the corners and drag them to the corners of the billboard. And while it doesn't effect the image you can see the grid is moving, and it's the grid that we want to apply to our billboard. Let's zoom in, so we can see the corners clearly. And we can go…

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