How To Use Vanishing Point In Photoshop

Learn to use the Vanishing Point in Photoshop to bring content in a photograph into perspective. You can clone and paint in a perspective using the vanishing point filter in photoshop. Use the vanishing point filter in photoshop to be more creative.

Hello everybody, my name is Charles. In today’s video, I’m gonna talk about a special filter. It’s called the Vanishing Point filter. The Vanishing Point filter will allow you to place any object such as a photo or a painting onto basically any surface in Photoshop using the correct perspective. It’s a pretty simple tool to use and the results are amazing.

So have you ever had a room where it was completely empty and you wanted to put some wall art up? You have some photos you took or you have some paintings that you would like to put up but you just don’t know how you want to arrange them on the wall? We are going to use the Vanishing Point tool to put some art on this wall and it’s something that I’m sure we’ve all come across and you can either take a photo like this and even take a photo of your wall art. And you’re going to be able to use perspective to place it on different walls, just to see how it looks. So let’s see how we can use this photo and some art that I have or some pictures that I took and put them on the wall in perspective. So first before we do anything, there’s a couple of things we need to do before we can actually use the Vanishing Point filter.

So this is the first image we’re gonna place in perspective. We need to copy this to the clipboard. So if you hit Command + A and then Command + C, we’ve copied it to the clipboard. The next thing we should do is create a new blank layer. Placing the Vanishing Point results in a separate layer, preserves your original image and you can use layer opacity, styles, blending modes. So keep it separate. So I’ll create a new layer and then I’m gonna choose filter Vanishing Point. So now we are in the Vanishing Point dialog box and the main objective in the Vanishing Point dialog box is to create a Vanishing Point plane.

Create Plane Using Vanishing Point In Photoshop

So the first tool appears at the top is your Create Plane tool and what we’re gonna do is define four points and Photoshop is going to make a perspective grid. So what you should look for when you’re creating your plane, you wanna look for a reference or a line as a guide as you create your perspective. And in this photo, it looks like this floorboard here, the molding on both sides is a good guide. So I’m gonna click and I’m gonna create four points and right now you see that my plane is red, which means that it’s not in perspective. So these handles here are what you’re going to be able to adjust because you want this plane to be all blue. So if I’m moving this plane and now you could see that it just turned blue. So that means that it’s probably in perspective. If it’s yellow, you could probably use that red. No, it’s not in perspective. So that was the Create Plane tool that we used to make that grid. And we have this arrow up here, which is your Edit Plane tool. So things your Edit Plane tool will do for you, if I click on my grid, I can move it around if I need to reposition it. If I drag any of these handles, I can extend it. So with the Edit Plane tool, I can move, resize, extend this grid.

Also another feature that is very useful. I’m going to extend that part of the grid all the way down to the floor and if I hit Command or Control and see my cursor changes and if I pull out, it has actually caused the grid to draw across the floor. So now if I want to try and fine tune this, I can drag any of the edges, something like that and there I have drawn a plane across the floor. Now this tool up here, it will test the angle between the selected plane and its parent. So if I change this angle here, you could see that it goes, brings a floor up and down. So who knows how this was actually shot, this whole angle of this room? But so I change the angle of the floor and I’m gonna drag it over a little bit more and I can adjust the corners just like that. So now my floor looks a little bit better.

Place An Image In Perspective Using Vanishing Point in Photoshop

I’m going to bring in that photo. It’s on the clipboard. All I have to say is Command + V and there is my photo, so I can move it around and you can even see that the floor has got the photo in perspective but it’s not gonna go on the floor. So that’s pretty big. So I’m going to click on the Transform tool or T for the Transform tool and I can grab the handles here, hold Shift and I can scale it down a little bit and I can use my Transform tool here and move it wherever I want to. So that gives me an idea of how I would like this photo to look on the wall. Once I click away from it, I am no longer in the Transform tool.

So you saw the Create Plane tool, Edit Plane tool, the Transform tool, and the Marquee tool is the selection. So when this came in, it was a selection and it had this dotted line. So that’s the Marquee tool. Hey, if you’re getting value out of this so far, hit that Like button. Over here on the toolbar, there’s an eyedropper tool and the paintbrush and they work the same as they do in regular Photoshop. And here’s the Clone Stamp tool. Just to show you, I’m going to use the brush tool, and here are all the parameters to use the diameter, the hardness, opacity.

So I use the Marquee tool and come down here and I’m going to make a selection around this, whatever it is on the wall right here, I’m going to use the brush tool and I’m going to paint over it. So see, that’s one way to use the brush tool and the eyedropper but if there had been some kind of texture or some bricks or something, it would have painted in perspective. I was just showing you that if you’re gonna use your brush tool, do you have to use the Marquee tool to select it first?

Also I could use the Clone Stamp tool and here’s all the diameter of the brush up here, hardness, capacity and if I press the Alt key and sample, I am cloning away that little area on the wall. So that was the Clone Stamp and the brush tool. So now let’s come over here and create another plane. Again, I’m using this side of the wall and I’m gonna come up here. I’m kind of guessing where this area is and okay, see, it’s a pretty good plane. And again, I’m gonna use the Marquee tool. I’m going to select this area right here. I’m gonna use my Clone Stamp tool again. Hold Alt or Option sample and I’m cloning away this object. And I’m gonna say, okay, and come out of this, create a new layer.

And I have another image here, Command + A to select that image, Command + C to put it on the clipboard, come back into my image and choose filter, Vanishing Point and say Command + V to paste it. And I’m gonna drag it and it’s pretty big. And I’m gonna press T, hold the Shift key down. I’m gonna try and make this a little bit smaller. Let’s make it a little bit bigger and move it there and so I have two pieces on the wall and say, okay, so now I kind of know how two things are gonna look, two photos in perspective. I’m going to make a new layer and choose filter, Vanishing Point. Okay, so now we’re gonna create a couple more planes using the molding down there as my guide. I’m gonna create another one over here.

So now I’m gonna click on my Marquee tool and I’m gonna make a selection of this door. Click Command + C to copy, Command + V to paste and then I’m gonna use my Marquee tool to pull over this door. I duplicated this door and it’s in perspective. Hit T, hold the Shift key down and I’m going to scale this door down a little bit and you can flip this copy, change the side of the door. That actually looks better or you can flop it, so you can flip or flop it. I just flipped it to make it open the other way.

So we’ve used the Create Plane tool to put two photos on each wall here in perspective. We’ve used the Marquee tool to duplicate and copy this door and move it over. So we can kind of get an idea of how we want to maybe change a room, add photos all with the Vanishing Point filter. If you wanna know more about Photoshop, click on this playlist here. If you haven’t already, subscribe and like this video and remember, it’s never too late to learn. Thanks for watching, see you in the next video.

Vanishing points are useful tools that can help photographers add a sense of scale or even distort reality. They help add depth to otherwise flat compositions, and they built interest for the viewer. Here’s another excellent resource on vanishing point to read.

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