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Vanishing Point / Vanishing Point Pt 1
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Vanishing Point has been upgraded alongside of Photoshop CS3. And what we're gonna do is learn how to use this great plug-in. And it comes, by the way, built in with Photoshop and is located under the filter menu, which is right here. Vanishing Point. Here is a 3-D model that I created in LightWave and I took a snapshot of it and this is going to be our cereal box template. What we're going to do after we learn how to use Vanishing Point is to take this delicious cereal box, which is VTC Crunch Corn Flakes. They're 100 percent natural and it stays crisp forever. We're going to take this and map it onto this box so we can have a prototype to show an art department. So let's go ahead and look at Vanishing Point and look at some of the tools you'll need to learn so that you can take full advantage of this great tool. So, let's go to our filter menu and choose Vanishing Point. In a moment, a dialog box appears and it's pretty large and the first thing I'm going to do is grab the zoom tool or the magnifier tool and I'm going to hold down on my keyboard the alt or option key and click one time to zoom out just so I can see everything. Now let's go ahead and talk about some of the tools. By the way, most of them would be, uh, ghosted out until we actually have some kind of plane or grid drawn in our workspace. And that's how Vanishing Point works. It allows you to draw a 3-D grid, which will have lines on it like so and you'll see in a minute that you can map artwork on it. And let's go ahead and get started with this tool right here, which is our create plane tool. Now, just to reiterate, a plane is simply a flat surface, so a floor, for example, is a plane. So is your wall. And in LightWave I created this box based on one plane and I simply extruded it. So I'm going to click right here to set my first point. Notice that I'm not dragging. I'm just moving my mouse around like so. And I'm going to click right here, trying to follow the perspective of this box. And I'm going to come down here, click, and I'm going to come over here and finish this plane. Now that we have a plane, you'll notice that the tool that automatically lights up is this guy right here, which will allow you to edit the plane. So we can grab a corner handle and resize the plane and manipulate it. You'll also notice that as I move my mouse slowly, you see three different colors. Blue and red and yellow. Whenever you see the red grid, that means that Photoshop is not going to be able to negotiate whatever you're trying to do here. So this will not be good as a useful vanishing point. Whenever you see yellow, that means Photoshop is going to try it's very best to, uh, incorporate your image in the vanishing point and it might not look great, but it's going to try. And last but not least, we have blue, which is where you really want to be. This is the optimal 3-D grid. Now, I just see here we have a grid that's going this way. But what if you want to go this way? Well, what you could do is grab this handle to continuing going in one direction, but if you want to bend things around in perpendicular fashion, you have to hold down either the command or control key, click, and then move your mouse and check that out. You're now drawing in 3-D. So now we have a plane that's going this way as well as this way. Let's talk about some of the other tools here. We have our rectangular marquee tool and what I could do is draw a perpendicular, or rather a perspective, how cool is that, a perspective marquee that follows the shape of your grid. So I'll go ahead and accept that and I'll grab a brush tool and you'll also notice, by the way, we have a rubber stamp tool, we also have the transform tool, we have our eyedropper tool and a hand tool. Tools that you've seen in the regular Photoshop interface. You'll also notice that we have a lot of brush controls so we can control the size of the brush with the diameter, the hardness of the brush or the softness of the brush, the opacity and several options such as heal off, luminous and on. We can also choose our brush color. So I'm going to choose the color swatch. I'm going to choose a red color. And with my brush I can literally paint in perspective right on the marquee that I have selected here. How cool is that? I can also undo several times image interface. So I'm going to undo a couple time to get rid of that and to get rid of this marquee I'll press command or control D for deselect. And we can also use the eyedropper tool, so if we have another color in there that we want to emulate, you just have to click on the eyedropper tool, select a color and then you can pretty much paint with that somewhere else in your interface. And we have our hand tool, which works in the same way as the space bar. So if we really zoomed in, we could really move this around. Let me go a head and do that for you right now with our hand tool. We can move around in our image like so. Once again, space bar does the same exact thing. So let me go ahead and zoom back out and these are the basic tools that are in the Vanishing Point filter. And what we're going to do next is we're going to learn how to actually map the image of the cereal box onto this artwork.
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: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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