317 Using the Perspective Crop tool

…Hey gang this is Deke McClelland.…Welcome to Deke's Techniques.…Today I'm going to show you a really great use for…a little known tool in Photoshop called the Perspective Crop Tool.…So here's the idea I captured this photograph of the aftermath of playing a…classic 1970s board game called Landslide where…you run for president of the United States.…But I actually captured the photo like this.…And you can tell that's the case because there are my feet after all.…I'm perched on a bench looking down at the table and naturally because I'm…to the side of the table a little bit I'm getting perspective in the scene.…

So the front of the table is optically larger than the back and…the slots of wood in the table are perched at various different angles.…That's not what I want.…What I want is this head on view of the scene.…It's as if I am suspended directly above the…table capturing the scene by looking downward at it.…And as a result every single slot of wood is exactly vertical and that is an effect…you can achieve using the Perspective Crop Tool as I'm about to show you right now.…