Adobe Photoshop CS4 - Manual (Page 246)

239 USING PHOTOSHOP CS4
Retouching and transforming
Last updated 1/10/2010
About selections in Vanishing Point
Selections can be helpful when you’re painting or retouching to correct flaws, add elements, or enhance an image. In
Vanishing Point, making selections let you paint or fill specific areas in an image while honoring the perspective
defined by the planes in the image. Selections can also be used to clone and move specific image content in perspective.
Using the Marquee tool in Vanishing Point, you draw a selection within a perspective plane. If you draw a selection
that spans more than one plane, it wraps to conform to the perspective of each plane.
Once a selection is drawn, you can move it anywhere in the image and maintain the perspective established by the
plane. If your image has multiple planes, the selection conforms to the perspective of the plane it’s moved through.
Vanishing Point also lets you clone the image pixels in a selection as it is moved in an image. In Vanishing Point, a
selection containing image pixels that you can move anywhere in the image is called a floating selection. Although not
on a separate layer, the pixels in a floating selection seem to be a separate layer hovering above the main image. While
active, a floating selection can be moved, rotated, or scaled.
Note: When you paste an item into Vanishing Point, the pasted pixels are in a floating selection.
Clicking outside a floating selection deselects it. Once deselected, a floating selection’s content is pasted into the image,
replacing the pixels that were below it. Cloning a copy of a floating selection also deselects the original.
Pasted item in Vanishing Point.
Vanishing Point has another move option for selections. You can fill the selection with pixels from the area where the
pointer is moved.