Vanishing Point

All the retouching tools we've talked about until now have had one major shortcoming—they think the world is flat! That's right, they have no idea that your image might contain objects that appear to change proportion as they recede from the camera. The solution is to use a new filter called Vanishing Point, which allows you to create different perspective planes in your image, thus allowing you to paint, retouch, scale and distort in the perspectives you've just established.

Just take a look at Figure16.53 to see what I mean. Most people's brains would recognize that the dock has a consistent width but that it looks smaller in the distance due to the effects of perspective. Photoshop on the other hand, has no clue what your ...

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