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Vanishing Point

What is it used for? It's used to make working with perspective drawing simple.

How to work with Vanishing Point? The best way to explain this is using an example; draw the outline for a building and then we will bring an image of a building and paste it there Before you begin you need to open the building image and select the building and copy it, then:

1- Open your outline drawing

2- Create a new layer

3- Click Ctrl+Alt+V or go to Filter >> Vanishing Point

4- Use the "Create Panel Tool" and draw a rectangle on one side of the building

5- At the edge where 2 walls are perpendicular on each other you need change the direction of where the Vanishing point is going, to do that use Ctrl+Drag, a new grid should appear, but still its not positioned right

6- To position the grid right, use Alt+Drag to rotate the grid and with resizing it will come into place.

7- Now paste your building image, and place it on the outline and you can resize it to fit into your outline.

8- After you finish click OK.

The Vanishing point window

Edit Plane Tool : it is used to select, move and resize planes.

Create Plane Tool : it is used to define the 4 corners of a plane, then adjust the size of the plane.

Marquee Tool : makes selections.

Stamp Tool & Brush Tool : paints with a sample of the image, or paint with a sample color from the plane.

Transform Tool : This is used to transform the size of the plane and rotate it (just like the free transform tool)

Eyedropper and Measure Tool : eyedropper is for selecting a color from the plane, and measure is for measuring distances between 2 points on the plane.

Hand and Zoom Tool : The hand is for holding and moving the plane, and The zoom is for zooming in and out of the plane