536 Turning the world upside-down in Photoshop

- Hey, gang, this is Dick McClelland.…Welcome to Dick's Techniques.…This week I'll show you how to turn the world…upside down in Photoshop and this is…largely a matter of experimenting with perception.…So, let's start with the premise of this guy…jumping up in the air.…Now, this is all layers, all fakery…including this artificial cast shadow…and yet, it's not beyond the realm of possibility.…So, let's say instead of having this guy jump up…off his feet, which is hard enough,…let's have him jump from a handstand instead,…which if not impossible, would be a heck of a lot…harder to pull off and now,…instead of seeing the scene from our perspective,…as someone standing on the ground,…let's see it from his perspective instead…as he flies, basically untethered, in space.…

Here, let me show you exactly how it works.…Alright, here's the final effect,…just so you have a chance to see it on screen.…We're going to start off inside this…fairly traditional landscape that has the sky…at the top of the image and the grass down here below.…