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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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- [Instructor] Vanishing point enables us to paste a photograph into another one, and match its perspective. I have two images open. I'm going to start with the Iceland banner. I need to choose select all and then edit, and copy in order to copy this to the clipboard. Then I'll move to the Iceland image of the house, and at the bottom of the layers panel, I'll click on the plus icon to add a new layer. Then under the filter menu, I'll choose Vanishing point. On the left side, we have a number of different tools. I'm going to select the perspective plane tool in order to define the perspective. Here, we're going to paste the banner so that it appears as if it's going around the wall, but you could also, say if you had a building, go down to the floor in the foreground. All right. I'll click once where the wall and the roof are intersecting here. I'll move over to the right and click again. Then click again following the edge, and using the window as a reference, I want to complete my perspective grid. Now, if the grid is blue, that's great. If it's yellow, you can still try pasting into it, but it might be suspicious, meaning that it may not really exist in the real world. And if your grid is red, then it definitely doesn't exist, and so it cannot paste into that perspective. All right. So let's just undo that. Command + Z. And I'll use the middle anchor point to bring this down. Then I want to create the second plane. So I'll hold down the Command key on Mac. Control key on Windows and start dragging out. And then I'm just going to match that roof line over here on the right. Okay. Now I can use Command + V on Mac. Control + V on Windows in order to paste the content that was on the clipboard. Now if you paste in something large, you may want to switch to the transform tool, and hold down the Shift key as well as the Option key, and just make it a little bit smaller because when you drag this into the perspective plane, it often times gets larger, and I find it's easier to scale up than scale down once you're in this plane because you can't always get to the handles easily. So we'll just drag this here, and you can see, it took on the perspective of the plane that we drew and when I move it to the corner, we can see that it is going to wrap around the corner. Excellent. So I will just set this right about here, and then again, drag out. I'm going to hold down the Shift key, and then let's drag this around the corner, and maybe drag that a little bit larger. Excellent. I'm happy with that. So I will apply it. And then in the layers panel, I want to add a mask to this layer because we are hiding the window as well as those two round objects. So I'll hide the layer for a moment, and we can just zoom in a bit. I'll tap the M key to get the marquee tool. I have the elliptical marquee tool. So I'm just going to drag an ellipse around that first object. Hold down the shift key and then drag it around the second object. Then we can add our mask. But if I add the mask right now, it's going to hide everything except for what's within those two circles. So I'm just going to hold down the Option key on Mac, Alt key on Windows and click on the mask icon, and that will add the inverted mask. Do I need to hide that just for one more minute? Well, I tap the L key, and select the polygonal lasso tool, and then I'm just going to click in the corner of this window. Come out here to the window ledge. Back up. And then close that selection. Make the layer visible again. Making sure that I'm on the layer mask, I want to use the edit menu, and then fill and fill this area with black so we can see the window. All right, I'll use Command + 0 in order to zoom out. And to make it look a little bit more realistic, let's change the blend mode. I think I'll choose multiply, and then just decrease the opacity a little. Excellent. So there you go. An easy way to paste one image into another, and match the perspective using Vanishing Point.

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