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2
The door itself is easily removed:
selected with the Pen or Lasso
tools, it’s cut to a new layer for safe
keeping. I’ve hidden the layer for now.
H
ORIZONS AND VANISHING POINTS
are able to give you accurate guidelines
for drawing scenes in perspective. But if you
can’t see the horizon – as is usually the case –
how are you to tell what point perspective lines
should tend towards?
The answer is to read perspective lines out
of clues already present in the image. Although
it may not look like it, even a simple picture
such as the one shown here contains many
perspective hints.
This example was first posted as a Friday
Challenge on the Reader Forum section of the
website that accompanies this book, and some
of the entries are shown below. The Challenge
was simply entitled Open the Door: it was up
to the readers to make what use they chose of
the view beyond.
7
The back wall is simply a flat layer
behind both the door and carpet
layers: a little shading helps it to blend
in better.
1
Here’s our starting point: the corner
of an ordinary room, showing the
door closed. The object of the exercise is
to open the door.
6
A copy of the original door is
flipped horizontally, and distorted
using Free Transform to follow the
perspective lines once again.
maiden raymardo Russ Davey atomicfog
Using existing perspective
THE FRIDAY
CHALLENGE
www.howtocheatinphotoshop.com
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Getting into perspective
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droo31k tabitha David Asch Tweaknik
HOT TIP
Partly hiding some
elements helps to
make the scene
more realistic.
Because both the
far door and the
picture are cut off
by the door frame,
our sense of the
view continuing
is accentuated.
If we’d been able
to see the second
door in its entirety,
the image would
have been far less
convincing as a
montage. Tr y it
for yourself on
the image on the
website, and you’ll
see what
I mean.
4
We can also show the perspective
on the left wall (although it’s not
needed here): the frames, lamp stand
and skirting board all give us clues.
9
Here’s the image with the
perspective lines hidden. All the
elements seen through the door now
conform to the scene’s perspective.
3
We can use the horizontals on
those bookshelves to project
perspective lines through the open
door. Use the Line tool for this!
8
Other elements can be added
using these perspective lines: the
picture and the skirting board are easy
to place in this image.
5
The carpet is made on a new
layer behind the open doorway,
following the perspective lines to get
the angle right.
10
Finally, the original door is
opened (see Chapter 12) and
shading added to make the scene more
realistic.
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