Cropping / Crop Perspective
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The crop perspective tool is very interesting because you can take a image that is crooked in some way and straighten it out or you can use it to create some really interesting effects. I'm gonna show you how to straighten this image out by using the crop tool. As you see I already have the crop tool selected and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna draw out a boundary like so and you're gonna notice that I also have this check mark in where it says perspective and what's going to happen is the handles will change in the way they function. For example you are no longer able to de-scale the height and the width like you would normally do when you grab a corner handle for example or a side handle. Now what I could do is grab the corner and move it up and change the angle of the crop itself. And as you see I'm trying to follow the angle of the boots here or the feet of these gentlemen, and when I double click or hit enter or return, look what happens. It crops the image and it straightens it out. Now of course its gonna be distorted a little bit but it still looks cool. Let's go ahead and see what it looks like on a different image. What I can do is create a very harsh perspective so that it looks like this guy's arm is really like maybe our arm, its really gonna be really harsh and its gonna be wider here and its go uh thinner as it goes towards the uh distance. So once again I'm gonna use this same crop tool and I'm gonna draw out an angle that's gonna follow the angle of the arms here and the hands so I'm gonna go way up here and I'm going to exaggerate this quite a bit because I wanna follow that angle pretty harshly and so I'm gonna come down here and once again I am just keeping my eyes on the angle of the hands and arms and when I am happy I'm gonna hit enter or return or double click in the region and I've created this really hard perspective here. Now I'm gonna undo that and I'm gonna do another one where I am really gonna focus on just this arm here. So once again you don't have to follow both angles, you can just follow one. So I'm gonna go down to this one here and I'm gonna move this angle way up here and once again I'm gonna focus on just the top, I'm leaving the bottom alone and now we have this cartoony kind of thing going on where, where almost like in 3-d where we are the guy with the hand extended to shake the other guy's hand. Of course when you use this tool sometimes you're gonna get the white area that's gonna be left over when you crop out the image so what you can do is go back to the normal crop tool or just draw a regular box, double click and now you've cropped that white area away. Its an interesting tool and you can create some very unique effects with it.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop CS3 |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 33782 |
| ISBN: | 1-933736-98-4 |
| Release Date: | 2007-08-02 |
| Duration: | 9 hrs / 161 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | For Online University members only |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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