How to Work With Perspective in Photoshop
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How to Work With Perspective in Photoshop

on Sep 7th 2011 with 47 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Estimated Completion Time: 40 Minutes

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This entry is part 7 of 25 in the Digital Art for Beginners Session
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Photoshop is an excellent tool for manipulating photographs but it can also be used as a means to create stunning digital art. This tutorial is part of a 25-part video tutorial series demonstrating everything you will need to know to start producing digital art in Photoshop. Digital Art for Beginners, by Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor, Martin Perhiniak will begin by teaching you how to draw in Photoshop. At the conclusion of this series you will know all you need to produce your own concept art and matte paintings in Photoshop.

Today’s tutorial Part 7: How to Work With Perspective in Photoshop will explain a bit about the theory behind perspective and will focus on how to set up construction lines, vanishing points and a horizon. We will also show different ways to create a perspective grid and then use it for drawing three-dimensional objects. These techniques are useful for retouching photographs, but crucial for digital art. Let’s get started!

 
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Martin is a Hungarian graphic designer, digital artist and an Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor (Design Master). He is currently teaching and working in London but usually travels around the UK and share his love for Adobe products and graphic design. You can follow him on his blog or on Twitter.  

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  • Rui

    Great instructional video! Thanks

  • Trevor

    Same comment as usual, great Tut and keep them coming, thanks.

  • Alex

    Nice!!!

  • http://velocity91.deviantart.com/ Andrea

    as great as well!!! love from italy!!!

  • Alexander

    Also Adobe Illustrator has Perspective tool…Its very good and practical

  • John

    Awesome! Thanks!

  • http://www.adrianflorescu.info/ Florescu Adrian

    Thanks! I really don’t know to paint, and maybe it`s because of my ignorance in drawing techniques!

  • http://www.superwebsitedesign.com Kerstin

    Great tutorial ! Love the accent, a hint of English and a hit of Scandinavian in there :)

  • http://www.photoga.tk EL TUTI

    Thanks… I love this tutorial… excelent explain…

  • Bert

    Thanks, Martin. Always learning from you.

  • http://www.agroeducation.com zahirul

    I am waiting another topics from you because as a teacher you are handsome.

  • http://www.fingerprintweb.pl Zdzichu

    Great tutorial! you are hypnotizing me ;)

  • Alex

    Yea

  • CURRYBILL

    I’ve run into problems trying to produce the master perspective grid. Is there any chance of getting the written text for this tut? Usually I can follow MP’s excellent tuts without problems, even though I’m using CS3. Mine seems to go awray after I draw a vertical line with the line tool and click Control T. I cannot select the end anchor point. So I go ahead and enter the 2 degree and press enter; the line rotates but I have lost the original. This should be so basic – anyone help? Regards

    • http://www.yesimadesigner.com Martin Perhiniak
      Author

      Hi Currybill,

      When you want to transform and copy the line instead of Ctrl+T use Alt+Control+T. Alt means copy most of the times in Photoshop (among many other things :)

      Good luck and I hope now you will be able to follow the tutorial properly.

      Unfortunately there is no written text for my tuts as I plan everything in head and I don’t write down anything. I know it would be useful and I’m thinking on a way to solve the problem.

      Cheers,
      Martin

      • http://www.youtube.com/ghap4a Judy

        One word, WOW!!! YOu have no idea how much this help. I have been looking for a tutorial like this. Thanks a million!!!!!! WOW!!!

  • Mark

    Excellent tutorials thanks for helping, can’t wait for the next part :)

  • http://www.joseciceraro.com Jose

    Awesome video! Thanks for sharing!

  • Gireesh

    Hi, MP it’s really a new lesson for me to know new things about the perspective & the vanishing filter. Also I like the entertaining way of your presentation. Expecting more.. :)

  • Soyer

    Incredible Martin! Really simple and comprehensive guide to start figure things out with perspective. But, i got myself much more interested into it :P I think it should be really nice if you got a little bit more deep into perspective. Again, thank you world! Thank you Martin and PsdTuts. Lifelong to Knowledge!

  • Khalil

    Great tutorial, Thanks!

  • http://www.v-render.co.in veerendra

    this is very very informative and important tutorial .. thanks for the efforts !

  • Susan Berry

    I am not sure where one get the source files for the tutorials- the photos that Martin use? I thought I should subscribe to the Premium Package for that , but so far I cannot find the relevant files. Do I have to use my own?

    Please help!

  • MG

    very useful for photo retouchers, thanks :)

  • http://vvsol.com Lisa Noble

    Great tutorial as usual! Perspective was always a tough subject to understand for me. But watching your tutorial has really helped me. Thanks

  • louisa

    Martin, Many thanks! I have learned so much- please continue with your tutorials.

  • Priscilla Biju

    Great tutorial, you are truly awesome Martin! Only 1 small problem while trying to follow along for the grid… I managed to get create the shortcut, but it’s not copying the lines each time, just rotating it 2 degrees. What step am I missing / not doing properly?

    • dan

      He answered this question already.
      [QUOTE]When you want to transform and copy the line instead of Ctrl+T use Alt+Control+T. Alt means copy most of the times in Photoshop (among many other things :)[/QUOTE]

  • http://www.simplesilence.fr Bérenger

    What a perfect Tut.

  • dan

    I like this tut, cleared up some questions I had, thanks berry berry much Martin.

  • http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/drawing/work-with-perspective-photoshop/ Raxx

    Nice tuts bro!

  • http://www.severinu.com sever3d

    Great ! I was waiting for some cool thing like that. Thanks to tutsplus I’ve made my graphics looks better and more professional. Professional help for us , and it is for free. Thank You Envato !

  • simoneì

    Amazing, clear, effective. Simply great!

  • neo

    Hi, thanks for the all the great tuts.. really helpfull aswell for a no so good english speaking person :)

    i have a problem right at the beginning. if i want to strg t the second time it gives me an error.

    “could not transform the path because the selected portion of the path….”

    i use cs6 and there is no button for direct shape layers.

    i’ve tried to make the line without this and make a layer after. But it seems theres the problem..

    can someone help me?

    • neo

      Hi.. maybe i get the answer by myself.. its just a thought but could it be that if i change the Height/width to 10% thats the shape no more reachable because of the thinnes.. (in terms of resolution)?

      In the video tutorial ive seen that martins set resolution is quiet big.. 25000 or something..

      if that be right… i have an advanced question. Is there a way how i can reach the “lost?” shape ?

      • Jason

        I also have the same problem. I change width to 10% but when I Ctrl+t it gives me the same error as you. I’m also using cs6.

      • Gary

        I am having the same problem here. Using CS6 I get an error every time I change the width to 10% and then attempting to free transform again.

  • http://www.ispsd.com rijo

    Superb tutorial. I never knew a thing like vanishing point holds so much importance.

  • http://youtube.com/agent333322 Mohammed

    Much respect martin :)
    You are my teacher.

  • carlos

    Fannnnnnntastic tutorial!!!!!!!!!

    100% usefull and opened my eyes

    Thank you so much

  • Riley

    Was there somewhere to download the perspective shape?

  • FEATHEREDPIXELS

    does this work with CS6 ??? i cant get to transform the path after reducing the width to 10% :(

    • Kayne Ortiz

      i’m having the same exact problem.

  • denisevz

    Excelent tutorial! Thanx a lot.

  • Istvan

    Well if anyone still reading this tutorial i find that if you don’t reduce the lines with,(keep it 100%) than the transform and the step and repeat works perfectly. Don’t know why is happening this. Maybe its a bug. I use CS6. Happy learning…:-)

    • SUni4

      yeah, but the shape you make has a big black circle in the centre

  • http://e-digitaldesign.com/ Eric Malcolm

    Thanks for the article, stuff is so much easier to do on paper.