The feature you use next depends on the image youвЂ™re adding. With both Vanishing Point and Perspective Warp you typically start with a base image that already contains objects in linear perspective. I used Perspective Warp to make a truck photographed in India appear to be parked in lower Manhattan. This is valuable for compositing images together. The Edit > Perspective Warp commandВ reshapes the perspective that already exists in a single image. Vanishing Point makes it easy to turn stripes into a crosswalk. ItвЂ™s a way to add new elements to different perspective planes over an existing image.

The Filter > Vanishing Point command can help you distort an object to fit an existing perspective grid, or to paint in perspective. With the basics out of the way, now letвЂ™s look at the newer Photoshop distortion tools which make it possible to correct, composite, and retouch more easily and with more natural and believable results. More after the jump! Continue reading belowв†“ДЇree and Premium members see fewer ads! Sign up and log-in today. TheyвЂ™re better for creating synthetic graphic effects. At first they seem like they might have potential for adding or correcting distortion, but their options are so abstract and geometric that they arenвЂ™t actually useful for much in straight photography. The commands on the Filter > Distort menu have been around since early versions of Photoshop. I used the Perspective Crop tool to (mostly) correct this sign from a subway wall.

You canвЂ™t use them to correct curved lens distortions, and Photoshop now has better tools for building images in linear perspective (as weвЂ™ll see later). These tools can only work with content in a rectangular plane, which limits their usefulness. TheyвЂ™re still handy when you want to straighten a rectangular object in a photo taken at an angle or skew a graphic to fit the side of a product box mock-up. The Edit > Free Transform command,В Perspective Crop Tool, and theВ Skew, Distort, and Perspective commands on the Edit > Transform menuВ were some of the earliest Photoshop tools for working with distortion. This set of tools has grown steadily over the history of Photoshop, so letвЂ™s walk through them to understand why each is a useful part of your Photoshop toolkit. Adobe Photoshop CC comes with more tools for adding or correcting distortions than you may realize, especially if youвЂ™re new to Photoshop.

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