From the course: After Effects Guru: Advanced Photoshop Integration
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Cloning with Vanishing Point - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Guru: Advanced Photoshop Integration
Cloning with Vanishing Point
- A useful feature inside Adobe Photoshop is vanishing point, it allows you to draw perspective lines and then clone using those lines. Now, vanishing point is usually used for fixing images and moving parts of pixels from one part of the image to another, but it actually has a hidden feature for animation. Let's first explore it's intended use and then we'll move on to the animation tool. I'm gonna open up this image called VP tiff. And in this case it's a shot of a hotel down in South Beach, and the sign had a burnt out letter. Now, you might think that this is just a little too convenient and Photoshop at play, but the letter was actually burned out the night that I went there to shoot. If you look at it you'll see that the sign is missing and part of it is not illuminated. But we can easily fix this. I'll choose Filter, Vanishing Point. And this opens up the image. Now let's take the grid here and click to draw some perspective planes. There we go. And what I'm doing is just…
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