Adobe Photoshop CS4 User Manual
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USING PHOTOSHOP CS4
Retouching and transforming
Last updated 1/10/2010
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To confine the Vanishing Point results to specific areas of your image, either make a selection or add a mask to your
image before choosing the Vanishing Point command. See also “
” on page 252 and
About masks and alpha channels
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To copy something in perspective from one Photoshop document to another, first copy the item while in Vanishing
Point in one document. When you paste the item in another document while in Vanishing Point, the item’s
perspective is preserved.
2.
Choose Filter
> Vanishing Point.
3.
Define the four corner nodes of the plane surface.
By default, the Create Plane tool
is selected. Click in the preview image to define the corner nodes. Try to use a
rectangle object in the image as a guide when creating the plane.
Defining the four corner nodes with the Create Plane tool
To tear off additional planes, use the Create Plane tool and Ctrl-drag (Windows) or Command-drag (Mac
OS) an edge
node.
Ctrl-drag (Windows) or Command-drag (Mac OS) an edge node to tear off a plane.
Define and adjust perspective planes in Vanishing Point
4.
Edit the image.
Do any of the following:
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Make a selection. Once drawn, a selection can be cloned, moved, rotated, scaled, filled, or transformed. For detailed
information, see “
About selections in Vanishing Point
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Paste an item from the clipboard. The pasted item becomes a floating selection, which conforms to the perspective
of any plane that it’s moved into. For detailed information, see also “
Paste an item into Vanishing Point
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Paint with color or sampled pixels. For detailed information, see “
Paint with a color in Vanishing Point
Paint with sampled pixels in Vanishing Point
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Scale, rotate, flip, flop, or move a floating selection. For detailed information, see “
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Measure an item in a plane. Measurements can be rendered in Photoshop by choosing Render Measurements To
Photoshop from the Vanishing Point menu. For detailed information, see “