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The four-point "perspective" distortion

The four-point "perspective" distortion - Photoshop Tutorial

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The four-point "perspective" distortion

So as I was saying, we need to be able to apply some perspective distortion to this text, in order to get it to match the angle of the sign. However, we can't, because one of the rules of Photoshop is thou shall not distort live text. We can skew it if we want to by Ctrl+Dragging one of the handles or Cmd+Dragging on the Mac, but that's hardly the same thing. So what we need to do in convert this text to a different kind of layer and then apply the distortion. So I am going to go ahead and Zoom out a little bit. And I am still working inside Automation boy.psd, and I am going to press the Escape key in order to escape out of the Free Transform mode. Now very briefly, I want to show you something here. Notice with this text selected, I can press Ctrl+T, Cmd+T to re-enter the Free Transform mode, and the reason I'm doing this is I wanted to show you how I can entirely bypass the scaling and the rotation if I want to. If I just start in skewing, I can get the same results I achieved just…

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