Photoshop: How to create a perspective grid

hi everyone today i'm going to be showing you how to create a perspective grid in photoshop and why it's going to be useful for creating concept art and visuals so to get started here i've just got a very plain uh photoshop document it's just an a4 page that i've opened up and i'm going to start creating a perspective grid right off the bat so that's basically a lot of lines converging on a vanishing point to do that i'm going to go over to the left hand side and go over to my shape tool now by default it'll be set to the rectangle if i click on that i'm going to go down to the fourth option where it says polygon tool now as soon as i start drawing i get just a very simple shape locked in and it's hard to see how this is going to be helpful for creating perspective so if i delete that what we're going to do is we're going to go up to the top of our screen where the settings are for the polygon tool and i'm going to work from left to right so first thing i'm going to turn off fill because i just want lines don't want any big blocky shapes and because i want those lines i'm going to change the stroke to black i'm going to keep it at one point i want the lines to be pretty thin if you want really bold perspective lines then you can increase this and then jumping over to the right we've got a little gear icon here if i click on that we get this little drop down menu and here i'm going to change uh this setting here where it says star i'm going to turn that on and i'm going to indent the sides by 99 then the very last thing i'm going to do is the number of sides is 5 i'm going to change it to 100. this is basically meaning 100 lines of perspective and with all those settings changed now watch what happens when i draw we get this brilliant star shape which if we especially if we hold down shift gives us both lines of perspective and our horizon line you can see this central horizontal line there now to move this around i'm going to go to my selection tool my path selection tool here and you can see that i can start moving around so i can position it in my concept art it's on its own layer and i can just hit ctrl j on my keyboard or command j if you're on the mac to then duplicate it and move that across the page now how would we use this so we've got our two vanishing points you may have three you may have just one depending on what type of perspective you're using but let's say i had just a panel a wall or a doorway something like that and i want to transform this to the perspective now what i like to do at this point is just reduce the opacity ever so slightly so you can see the grid you're working on so now that we can see the grid lines what i'm going to do is going to go down to edit transform and i'm going to go to distort and what i can do is sort of start moving these corners so that they match up to my perspective lines if i hold down shift i'll be able to lock it to an axis no matter where i move my cursor now it's just going up and down it's going to move that one there i need to move this one slightly up and let's make this one converge to this line here so here we can see that this panel here is converging onto this vanishing point now what happens if i want to duplicate this if i copy that i go to ctrl t to transform it i can scale it but what you'll find is that in this case i've got very regular perspective going on here i've got a very complicated shape so it's not difficult to make this match but what happens if you have an irregular shape and you want to kind of have it repeating off into the distance there the best thing to do is to go ctrl t which is the shortcut for transform you see this little icon in the center here i'm going to move that to the vanishing point there watch what happens when i now scale it it moves to the vanishing point so i can scale it along that perspective line so a really really useful combination of the transform tools and the perspective grid now currently this perspective grid is quite dynamic if i zoom out what i can do is use the crop tool on the left hand side and just drag out the painting increase the size of it and then i can go back to my perspective grid if i click the polygon one there and i can move it across and you can see that my perspective becomes much less dynamic it becomes slightly more realistic now your painting may not be that big so you can always crop it back and you'll still have the perspective coming through on the side there and you can see that it's quite faint it fades out too far here so i can just scale that back up but that's how we set up a really simple perspective grid in photoshop and a quick little intro into how we might use that in our project work

Channel: Model Digital

Views: 11,724

Keywords: Digital, Photoshop, Concept Art, Perspective, Construction, 2D, Graphics

Id: It-_mfZBFJ8

Length: 5min 56sec (356 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 02 2020