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Using Photoshop to accurately place text on buildings - Part 2

Wednesday ~ February 02, 2007 by Pixelseed Posted in All free Photoshop tutorials

Step 4

Here’s when the fun begins. Go Filter->Vanishing Point. A new screen pops up called, obviously, Vanishing Point. This is almost like a complete program inside Photoshop where you can achieve some amazing results if you know how, of course. What vanishing point basically does is to allow us to create a kind of 3 dimensional plane within an image. On the left you will find the necessary tools. To begin, click the second icon form the top or hit ‘C’ on the keyboard to activate the ‘Create Plane Tool’. Now we need to click four times on our image to create the plane. To make it easier for you, click four times around the street sign like in the example below.

Step 5

Very important: Your plane needs to be blue. If it is red or yellow, then you won’t get the correct effect. This is because Photoshop needs to use the correct perspective. To change a red or yellow plane to blue, simply move one or more points a little. Adding our text is really simple. Just press CRTL+V to paste our copied selection.

Step 6

You can see in step 5 above that the text hasn’t actually changed its perspective at all. This is quite normal so don’t be fooled into thinking you have done something wrong. What we have to do now is drag the text over our plane. Then you will see it change into the same perspective like this:

Step 7

Obviously, the text like this is of no use to us. We need to scale it down and re-position it. Luckily this is very easy. Hit ‘T’ on the keyboard (or click the icon circled in red) to activate the transform tool. SHIFT-drag the handlebars that have appeared around our text. We hold the SHIFT key to keep the text in its original aspect ratio, so it doesn’t start looking too fat or too thin. We can also move and rotate it in transform mode, too.

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