From the course: Motion Graphics for Video Editors: Working with 3D Objects

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What is Vanishing Point?

What is Vanishing Point?

From the course: Motion Graphics for Video Editors: Working with 3D Objects

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What is Vanishing Point?

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- Let's take a different approach with 3D. This time exploring a feature called Vanishing Point. Vanishing Point is a feature in Photoshop that allows you to draw planes. Much like the Vanishing Point in Illustration. For example, if you were drawing a road and it went off into the distance, it would eventually narrow down to a small peak. Well it's the same idea, we can draw planes to represent areas within a photo. Let me show you a photograph and we'll talk about some of the planes. In Photoshop here we'll switch back to the default work space. And opening up a photographic source. Now I've made this photo a little bit easier to work with in that I've already cut the building out from the background and I used Content-Aware Fill, to fill in the missing areas. But that's a simple step of using Photoshop and you can learn more about those features here on linda.com. If you look at this building, there are many different surfaces, but for simplicity sake, there's really about three…

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