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Vanishing Point

 

The Vanishing Point filter is a very powerful feature in Photoshop CS3, especially once you know a couple tricks for drawing grids, and then placing and blending images to them.

Corey Barker

Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, PhotoshopUser TV, and is co-host of Layers TV.

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17 Comments

  1. Alex said on — March 29, 2008 @ 6:25 pm

    Awesome. Thanks so much for posting this one!!! I love the fact that you showcase the various fitlers of PS. Helps me get to know them and learn to love them. Appreciate it!

  2. cherlizz said on — April 2, 2008 @ 11:42 am

    cool! this is really helpful. Just a hobbyist, toying with PS, and this is going to be a nice timesaver.

  3. Stacy said on — April 14, 2008 @ 4:30 pm

    I love your tutorials, and this is one of my favorites. You’re a great teacher, and have great ideas!

  4. Celeste said on — May 5, 2008 @ 5:53 pm

    That was really cool! Never even looked at vanishing point before. I love using filters and now I have a new tool/toy to play with…thanks.

  5. Jessica Shadions said on — June 5, 2008 @ 7:32 am

    I was having alot of trouble with this filter doing a homework assignment, but you have helped me out alot!! THANK YOU!

  6. Patrick said on — June 19, 2008 @ 9:24 am

    Awesome! This is useful for a variety of other reasons, too. Thanks.

  7. ivo said on — June 27, 2008 @ 8:33 am

    thanks for the awesome tutorial. I love it.

  8. Matt said on — July 20, 2008 @ 11:53 pm

    um…is it possible to go around curved lines…like sun glass….for example putting a picture on the lens….or is it easier another way?

  9. anisa said on — August 20, 2008 @ 4:47 pm

    Just a thing I needed. Thanks!

  10. tepe said on — September 4, 2008 @ 8:23 am

    this is what Im talking about! ur great master corey!

  11. Alicia said on — September 4, 2008 @ 3:22 pm

    You have SAVED my grade with this tutorial!!. Thank You so much!!

  12. rachel said on — September 17, 2008 @ 4:07 pm

    AWESOME!

  13. rias said on — October 15, 2008 @ 1:30 am

    Hi thank u so much

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  15. dheia said on — January 24, 2009 @ 2:38 am

    thank you

  16. Derek K said on — January 30, 2009 @ 6:48 pm

    great tutorial. thanks..i always wondered what “hard light” was used for. I never found a use for it.

  17. Dirk Smith said on — March 11, 2009 @ 10:19 am

    Thanks for the tutorial Corey, another great one. I have used a picture of the theatre I perform in to add several images from my 365 day project of ‘Derek’s Beard’. This image is for the milestone of 100 days and I have four different vanishing points on it. Made easy with your help of course.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/dereksbeard/3344718386/

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In the same composition, use  Select>Color Range…to select the high-lights of the base image.  Be generous with the Fuzziness, as detail won’t be an  issue.  Copy the selection to a new layer (Command - J [PC: Ctrl - J]) and set its blend mode to Screen, which works kind of inversely from Multiply—blacks become invisible and whites are added.  The result  is a simple bloom or glow effect.

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