In this video, I'm going to show you how to change
the perspective of anything in Photoshop. Hi. Welcome back to the
Photoshop Training Channel.com. I'm Jesus Ramirez. In this video, I'm going to show you how to
use the Perspective Warp tool in Photoshop. This tutorial is going to be
divided into three sections. In the first section, I'll go over how the
Perspective Warp tool works. You can think of it as a guide. In the second section, I'll show you how
you can use Perspective Warp to change the perspective
of objects in your photo. And, in the third and final section, I'll show you how you can use Perspective Warp
to improve your composites. Okay. Let's get started. We're going to start with this document. It contains two layers, a background layer,
and this layer with a crate. I've already masked the background, so we're
only working with the actual crate and not the rest of the image. I'm going to right-click on the layer and
convert it into a Smart Object because we always want to work non-destructively and,
luckily for us, the Perspective Warp tool works with Smart Objects. And you can tell you have a Smart Object when
you look at the layer thumbnail. If you see this Smart Object icon
on the bottom right, that means that you're working with a Smart Object. Now I'm going to go into Edit, Perspective Warp. This will get us into the Perspective Warp, which is a tool that we can use to change the perspective of objects in photos. From the options bar, you can see that we're
currently in the Layout Mode. The Layout Mode allows you to create quads
to define the perspective of your image. Start by clicking-and-dragging on a corner
of an object in your image to create a perspective grid. These grids are called quads. You have to match the quad to the perspective
of your image. You can click-and-drag on the corner pins
and try to match the perspective as best as you can. Now, this is a simple object, but, sometimes,
with a more difficult object, you won't be able to see the defined lines like you can
with this crate. So, what I like to do instead is find a smaller
area that I can use to match the perspective, and then I can click-and-drag on the edges
to match the perspective of the rest of the object. However, if I simply click-and-drag, you won't
necessarily be able to scale in perspective. I'm going to press Ctrl Z to undo. What you should do instead is hold Shift, click-and-drag, and then you can scale in perspective. Notice here that I didn't really get
that edge accurately, Which is why it's not constraining to that line. I did a good on the left side, but not on
the right, so I can just simply move it over and then, if I hold Shift, click-and-drag,
you can see how I maintained that perspective, and then I would match the sides of the box
to match the rest of the image. In this case, I really don't need to do that
because the edges are well defined, but I wanted to show you that trick in case you
are working with an image that doesn't have well-defined edges like this one. But, anyway, so, now that I have the right
face, the right quad created, I can start creating the left one. So, I can click-and -drag from the corner
here, and notice that, when I get to the edge, there's going to be a highlight. If I release, once those edges are highlighted,
they will snap together, and notice how I have a nice line that goes right here to that
corner, and all I have to worry about is the bottom left corner. So, I'm going to click-and -drag and place
that into position. If I need to adjust this point, I can. I can just click-and -drag it and adjust it
as best as I can. Now, I need to work on the top, so, again,
I'll click-and -drag and wait for the highlighted area, then release, and it snaps into place. I can drag to the left, it highlights, release,
and it snaps into place as well, and all I have to worry about now is matching that point
there, and it looks like I quite didn't get this corner. So, I can click-and -drag and adjust it, and,
of course, you can fine tune your image until you get a grid that matches the perspective
of your object. Then I can click on the Warp button, or you
can press the W key. L gets you back into the Layout Mode. See how I pressed L and it highlighted Layout? If I press W. It goes back to Warp. L, layout. W, Warp. Also, when you're in the Layout Mode, you
can just simply press Enter and it gets you into the Warp Mode. If you press Enter in the Warp Mode,
that's Return on the Mac, by the way, that commits the changes. We haven't made any changes in the Perspective
Warp, so nothing changes. However, since we are working with a Smart
Object, you can see that we have that effect applied onto the smart filter. I can double-click on the Perspective Warp
label to bring us back into the Perspective Warp tool, and I can make my adjustments. With Warp selected, I can warp the perspective
of this object by simply clicking-and-dragging on these points, so notice now how I'm completely
changing the perspective of this object. If I press Enter, Return on the Mac, that
commits the changes, and now it looks as if we're looking at the top of this box. If I click on this eye icon to disable the
Perspective Warp, you'll see the before and the after. Again, with a Smart Object, we're working
non-destructively. If I double-click on Perspective Warp, I can
come back and continue adjusting the points to change the perspective of the object. If I click on this icon here, I can reset
the points to their original positions. Some of the other tools that you can use are
these icons on the top. This icon here straightens all the lines vertically. This one here straightens all the lines horizontally,
and this one here straightens all lines horizontally and vertically, so it gives us basically the
same result we have there. I'm going to click on this icon to reset the
points, and I'm going to show you a couple of quick keyboard shortcuts. If you have a point selected, you can use
the Arrow keys on the keyboard to fine tune the position of the points, so I'm using the
Arrow keys on the keyboard to fine-tune the position, or you can click-and-drag, of course. You can also press the H key to hide the lines. The points remain, but the perspective lines
disappear, so press H to disable the lines, and press H again to bring them back. Also, when you're working with this tool and
you want to straighten the lines so that they're perfectly vertical or horizontal, you can
hold Shift, click on the edge, and Photoshop will straighten that line for you. Also, that constrains those points, so, when
you move one point, you move the other point, and you can do the same thing for the horizontal
lines as well So, Shift and click to straighten and once again, the yellow line means that
these two points are connected. When you move one, you move the second one, and if you want to break that connection, you can hold Shift again and click,
and that breaks that connection, so I can now move them independently. And that's how the perspective tool works. If you're enjoying this tutorial, click in
the Like button now. In the next few examples, I'm going to show
you how you can use Perspective Warp to change the perspective of objects in your photo. So, in this photo, we have buildings, and
the buildings on the left-hand side look great, but, on the right-hand side, we have some
perspective issues with these buildings so I would like to fix the perspective. There are several ways we can do that in Photoshop,
but in this tutorial, of course, we're going to use the Perspective Warp tool, so we're
going to work non-destructively. I'm going to click on the layer and convert
it into a Smart Object. Then I'm going to go into Edit, Perspective
Warp, and what I'm going to do is create a quad on this side here, and this quad is just
going to keep everything in place. Then I'm going to create another quad on the
right-hand side and just drop it there. Notice that they are not connected so you
can have quads that are not connected with the Perspective Warp tool. Then I'm simply going to click on Warp, and
I can click-and-drag on these points to change that perspective, so I'm changing the perspective
of the right-hand side of the image without affecting the left-hand side of the image. And, of course, you're going to need to do
quite a bit of fine tuning on your image to get things to look right, but notice that,
just by making that simple adjustment, the image looks much better. I want to click on that check mark to commit
the changes. If I click on this eye icon, you can see the
before and the after. Notice how we easily changed the perspective
of the right-hand side of the image without affecting the left-hand side, and, of course,
all this was non-destructive, so I can double-click on the Perspective Warp, come back, and make
any adjustments that I need to. In this case, I think that we did a really
good job, so I'm just going to hit Enter, Return on the Mac, and that is the final result. In this example, I'm going to show you how
to change the perspective of this building, so I'm just going to start by right-clicking
on the layer and selecting Convert to Smart Object. We always want to work non-destructively. Then I'm going to go into Edit, Perspective
Warp, and I'm just going to create a quad. One of these grids on each side of the building. And I'm going to go fairly quickly here. You don't need to be very precise. As long as you get a close-enough perspective,
you should be okay. And I'm using these lines here on the grid
to try to match the perspective. And then I'll do the other side, click-and-drag. When I see the highlight, I'll release, and
it'll snap into place, and then I can adjust these points to match
the perspective of thebuilding. I think I may need to drag this one up just
a bit higher like so and maybe drag it a little bit to the right. And I'm going to drag this point down, and
I think this will work. Then I'll click on Warp, and notice how I
can change the perspective of this building just by clicking-and-dragging these points. I can hold Shift, click on the center point
and then just drag it over to the right, and that completely changes the perspective of
the building. Also, if I zoom out, so I'm holding Alt,
Option on the Mac, and scrolling down on the mouse wheel,
I can zoom out. And I can keep adjusting the perspective of
this building, so we can completely change the perspective of the photo to get a much
more dramatic effect. I'm going to double-click on the Hand tool
to fit the image to screen. That's before and after, and, obviously, in
some areas, you're going to see transparency. To fix that, just use the Crop tool and crop
in the areas that I have transparency. So you can use this tool to change the perspective
of objects and building in your scene to create more dramatic images. Now you know how to use
Perspective Warp on a single photo. We're now going to talk about how to use Perspective
Warp on your compositing. that is when you're putting multiple images
together, and you can use Perspective Warp to change the perspective of an object and
make it fit your scene so that it looks more realistic. In this example, I'm going to show you how
we can use the Perspective Warp tool in compositing. More specifically, we're going to use it to
change the perspective of this truck to make it seem as if it's going down the street. So, just like before, with every other example,
I'm going to start by right-clicking on the layer and selecting Convert to Smart Object. Then I'm going to go into Edit, Perspective
Warp tool, and I'm just going to follow the perspective of the truck. This time, I'm going to go a little bit quicker
because I think you get the idea of how you can create the grids, the quads. And how I'm using these lines here and this
one that is barely noticeable to match the perspective of the truck. And I'm using the Arrow keys in the keyboard
to fine-tune the position of that point. And then I'll click-and-drag on the right
side, release and, again, I'll use the Arrow keys on the keyboard to fine tune that point. I think this one will work great there. Now, I can simply click on Warp, and I can
look at the converging lines on the street, all these parallel converging lines, to get
an idea of the perspective of the scene. So, I can click-and-drag these points to sort
of match that perspective, so I'm clicking-and-dragging these points, and I think I want a straight
edge here. So I'll hold Shift and click and then drag
these two points here, and, again, now I'm trying to match this bottom line to the lines
here on the street so that it looks a little more realistic. And I'm also going to hold Shift and click
on that back part there and then maybe click-and-drag this point up like so. This one might be a little too high, so I'll
bring it down and maybe even back a little bit, so I'm trying to get it to look as best
as possible. Obviously, you would need to fine-tune the
image a little bit more to make it look even more realistic, but this is a very quick example
of how you can change the perspective of an object so that it fits a composite much better. Also, when you change the perspective of an
object, you might create new problems. For example, with this truck, if you notice,
the tires on the left-hand side of the truck now look really weird and they don't look
very realistic. So, you would need to Photoshop the tires
out and move them over to the left a bit more, but that's beyond the scope of this tutorial,
so we're not going to work on that. I just wanted to point that out to you. In this next example, we're also going to
talking about compositing, but we're going to use advanced compositing principles. So here we are once again with the crate,
but, this time, we have a background, and I also have some graphics that I want to show
you to explain a little bit about how compositing and perspective work, so I'll disable crate
for now, and we're looking at the background. If you look at most images, especially images
with architecture, streets or any manmade object, anything with straight edges really You would see that the edges
converge at a vanishing point. If you follow all the converging lines, you
would find that those lines end up in one, two or three vanishing points. In this case, we only have one vanishing point. Let me open up this folder and show you what
I'm talking about. If I enable this layer, you will see all these
parallel lines that come and meet at that one point. So, if we created a line from that point,
and I'll change the fill to green and the stroke to green so that you can see it. So, if we select the Line tool and draw from
that point, you will see that all of the parallel converging lines end up at that point, and
if all the parallel converging lines end on that point, then that means that this is where
the vanishing point for this image is. If that's where the vanishing point is, then
that means that that's where the horizon line is, and that is very important when it comes
to compositing. Now, if you don't really know what I just
described, I have a video that talks just about the horizon line, vanishing points,
and how it relates to compositing. I highly recommend watching that video. It's one of my best compositing videos, so
if you want a further explanation of what this all means, watch that video. I'll place a link right below in the description. But, for this tutorial, the importance is
the horizon line, and that is important because if we know where the horizon line is, in this
image here, it's this line here right where the sky meets the ground plane. And that's another way of thinking
about the horizon line. Where is it? It's where the ground plane meets the sky,
so, if we know where the horizon line is, then we know how objects are supposed to look
in that scene. For example, if you have an object right on
the horizon line, you will not be able to see the top or the bottom of that object. If you have an object below the horizon line, you will always be able to see the top of it,
but not the bottom. If you have an object above the horizon line, then you will never be able to see the top,
but you will always be able to see the bottom of it. The horizon line is the eye level, in the case of a photograph or a composite,
the eye level of the camera. So, obviously, if you're standing right in front of something, you won't be able to see the top or bottom. If something is above you, you'll be able
to see the bottom. If something is below you, you'll be able
to see the top. So, with that knowledge, we can come into
our composite now. So we have this crate here. If we wanted to composite this crate into
the scene, then we know that this is not the right perspective because we can see the top. And if this crate were really sitting here,
we wouldn't be able to see the top because it's above the horizon line, so I'm going
to right-click and convert it into a Smart Object. Then I'm going to create the perspective grids,
the quads, using Perspective Warp, of course. And I'm going to just match those edges, and
I'm doing it fairly quickly here because you've already seen this step several times in this
video. But, anyway, so now that I've matched the
perspective, I'm going to go into Warp. Once again, you can press W instead of just
clicking on Warp, and I'm just going to click-and-drag this up. The top disappears, and I can continue adjusting
all these different points to make sure that the perspective of the scene matches. Then I can just click on the check mark, and
this already looks much more realistic than what we had before. Of course, I can fine tune the perspective
a little bit more, add shadows and all those sorts of things, but, in this tutorial, we're
not going to spend the time to do all that since we're mainly worried about perspective. Also, I can come back and click on the Perspective
Warp, reset the distortion, and I want to click on the check box. And what I'm going to do now is press Ctrl
T, Command T, to transform, and I'm going to scale that crate in and bring it here. So, if this crate were sitting there, we can
see the top of it, of course, but since we're really, really close to the horizon line,
we wouldn't be able to see that much of the top. If I open up this graphic again, you will
see that the further down you go, the more the top you can see. So, in this case, we're not that far away
from the top, so we shouldn't be able to see that much of the top part of the crate. So, what I'll do is I'll select the crate,
double-click on Perspective Warp, I already have the grids there, and just adjust it accordingly. Right about there, and I probably need to
drag some of these points up, and I'm just trying to imagine where these converging lines
will meet somewhere here on the horizon line. And, obviously, if I wanted to get an accurate
result, I would have to draw those lines and make sure that they match on the horizon line,
but we don't have to worry too much about that in this example. I'm also going to hold Shift and click on
the edge to straighten these edges there. And just maybe adjust this a little bit more,
and click on the check mark when I'm done, or you could also press Enter, Return on the
Mac. And that's before and after. This is more realistic because now the perspective
more closely resembles the scene, and once again, in your projects, add shadows, highlights and things like that to make the composite more realistic. And, by the way, let me know down in the comments
below if you found this tutorial useful. Let me know if you're going to use this technique
more on compositing or your photography. I'd love to know how you plan on using these
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