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Using Vanishing Point to paste in perspective - Photoshop Tutorial

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Using Vanishing Point to paste in perspective

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- [Narrator] The Vanishing Point feature in Photoshop is an excellent way to paste one photograph into another, in order to match the perspective. I'm going to select both the Iceland and the Illustration jpg, use Command + O on Mac, Ctrl + O on Windows to open them into Photoshop. Then with the illustration targeted, I'm going to use the Select menu and select all, and then Edit and then copy this to the clipboard. Then I'll move to the Iceland image, where I'm going to create a new layer so that the results will be calculated and put on that new layer for added flexibility. Then under the Filter menu, I'll choose Vanishing Point, And in the Vanishing Point dialog, I'll select the perspective plane tool, and I'm going to click and drag out my plane, I'm going to put my first point down, then my second, then my third point, and then I'll just finish it right down here, kind of using the lower part of the window as a guide. Then in order to drag out the second plane, I'll hold down the command key, and then drag from the right hand side. Now if I need to reposition this, I can just select any of the corner points. If I want to make them larger, I can just drag down. So I'll make sure that I select both of these planes and make sure that they go all the way down to the bottom of the image. All right, now I can use Command + V on Mac or Ctrl + V on Windows in order to paste in the illustration that's on the clipboard. I'll select the transformation tool, here I will need to hold down the shift key in order to constrain the proportions. And I'm going to make it a little bit smaller than I think it needs to be because when I drag and drop it into that plane, one, it's going to get larger, but also it's easier for me to grab the transformation handles this way. As I drag it over, we can see that it actually wraps around the corner of that building. So I'll drag it down to the bottom, and then again holding down the Shift key, I'll just drag this up in order to constrain the proportions. Excellent, when I've got it in position, I'll go ahead and click OK in order to apply that. Now let's zoom in a little bit, because I need to create a mask so that we can see that window that's now hidden behind the illustration. So on the layers panel, I'll toggle the visibility of the layer by clicking on the eye icon, and then I'll zoom in again, I'll tap L to select my lasso tool, I want the Polygonal Lasso Tool, and then I think I'll just click right in here, inside this window frame. The nice thing about this tool, is if you do need to drag a line, while you're just clicking, so in between clicks here, I'm just getting a straight line, but I can also just drag there if I hold down the Option key, if I need to make a freeform line. All right, let's go ahead and close that, and then I'll toggle the visibility of that layer again, and instead of just clicking on the mask icon, because that would hide everything except for what's within the window, I'll hold down the Option key on Mac, Alt key on Windows and then click on the layer mask. All right, there were two other areas. So I'm going to hide that layer again. And I'm going to switch to my marquee tool, but I want the Elliptical Marquee tool, and then I'm going to click and drag out an elliptical marquee around that first, looks like a vent cover or something, and then I'll drag it around this second. Don't forget you can hold down the Spacebar key if you need to reposition the point of origin while you're dragging. And then just let go of the Spacebar key and then you can redraw the ellipse. Alright, so with both of those selected, I will toggle the visibility of that layer again. And with a mask targeted I want to fill with my foreground color. So I'll use the Option key and then tap the Delete key or the Alt key on Windows and then backspace. All right, let's zoom out to 100%. I'll deselect and if I wanted to make this blend a little bit better, I could always move through the different blend modes and see how they would blend with the live preview. In this case, I was thinking I would do the overlay but I actually like the way some of these other blend modes add more contrast like the linear and the vivid light. I'll go ahead and choose linear. If we wanted to, we could add a curves adjustment layer in order to make that blend a little bit more. And I actually like where the painted area is different from the rest of the wall here. So there you go, an easy way to paste one image into another and match the perspective using Vanishing Point in Photoshop.

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