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This shuttered shopfront is an ideal surface on which to
place our sign. Not only does it have strong perspective
lines, which will allow us to place the text accurately, it also
includes a good bumpy texture that will make the finished
result more convincing.
4
Select Free Transform (or press Ct Lt). Hold
C L and grab a corner, then hold S as well after
beginning to drag to constrain the movement to vertical. Align
the top and bottom handles so that they line up with the ribs
on the shutter.
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N THIS ILLUSTRATION FOR THE
Sunday Telegraph, I aligned some of the
elements with the perspective of the shutters.
But the large Closed sign was placed at a
deliberately skewed angle, to make it look as
if it had been pasted on in a hurry. The sign
still had to appear in perspective, but this was
achieved by eye using Free Transform. (See
Folds and Wrinkles in Chapter 11 for tips on
shading the paper sign.)
In this workthrough, we’ll look at how
to make a shop sign that looks like it was
photographed with the original shop.
Matching existing perspective
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In step 4, we use
Free Transform to
distort the Smart
Object created in
the previous step.
If you’re using
Photoshop CS3 or
earlier, you won’t
be able to drag the
corner handles
in this way: the
best solution is
to duplicate the
Smart Object
and turn it into a
regular layer, so
you can apply the
transformation
to it.
2
The sign consists of four elements: the three sets of
words, and the fish. Although it would have been
possible to create all the text in a single block, you get far more
control over size and spacing when they’re kept as separate
chunks of text.
5
The previous step got the sign into perspective, but it
didn’t look as if it was part of the image. Changing the
layer mode to Multiply (use the menu at the top of the Layers
panel) allows the original texture to show through, which
looks far more convincing.
3
Select all the sign elements, and choose Convert to Smart
Object from the pop-out menu on the Layers panel. This
will allow the entire set to be distorted as if it were a single
object – but we can still edit the text later if we need to. (See
page 400 for more on Smart Objects.)
6
Placing the figure in front of the sign achieves two things:
first, it adds a human element to the image; and second,
by obscuring a tiny part of the sign it makes the sign look far
more integrated into the final image.
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