Vanishing point, About vanishing point, Vanishing point dialog box overview – Adobe Photoshop CS3 User Manual
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Important: Only the active layer is distorted, even if other layers are displayed.
Showing the backdrop
Select Show Backdrop, and then choose an option from the Use pop-up menu. If you use All
Layers, changes to the current target layer are not reflected in the backdrop layer. Specify an overlay opacity to change
the blending between the target layer and the backdrop. The mode determines how the backdrop and the target layer
are combined for the preview. Choose an option from the Mode pop-up menu.
Hiding the backdrop
Deselect Show Backdrop in the View Options area of the dialog box.
Vanishing Point
About Vanishing Point
Vanishing Point simplifies perspective-correct editing in images that contain perspective planes—for instance, the
sides of a building, walls, floors, or any rectangular object. In Vanishing Point, you specify the planes in an image,
and then apply edits such as painting, cloning, copying or pasting, and transforming. All your edits honor the
perspective of the plane you’re working in. When you retouch, add, or remove content in an image, the results are
more realistic because the edits are properly oriented and scaled to the perspective planes. After you finish working
in Vanishing Point, you can continue editing the image in Photoshop. To preserve the perspective plane information
in an image, save your document in PSD, TIFF, or JPEG format.
Making edits on the perspective planes in an image
Photoshop Extended users can also measure objects in an image, and export 3D information and measurements to
DXF and 3DS formats for use in 3D applications.
For a video on using Vanishing Point, see
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Vanishing Point dialog box overview
The Vanishing Point dialog box (Filter > Vanishing Point) contains tools for defining the perspective planes, tools
for editing the image, a measure tool (Photoshop Extended only), and an image preview. The Vanishing Point tools
(Marquee, Stamp, Brush, and others) behave similarly to their counterparts in the main Photoshop toolbox. You can
use the same keyboard shortcuts to set the tool options. Opening the Vanishing Point menu
displays additional
tool settings and commands.