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Perspective Cropping in Photoshop

Lesson 21 from: Adobe Photoshop CC Bootcamp

Blake Rudis

Perspective Cropping in Photoshop

Lesson 21 from: Adobe Photoshop CC Bootcamp

Blake Rudis

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Lesson Info

21. Perspective Cropping in Photoshop

Lessons

Class Trailer
1

Bootcamp Introduction

16:22
2

The Bridge Interface

13:33
3

Setting up Bridge

06:55
4

Overview of Bridge

11:29
5

Practical Application of Bridge

27:56
6

Introduction to Raw Editing

11:00
7

Setting up ACR Preferences & Interface

07:39
8

Global Tools Part 1

16:44
9

Global Tools Part 2

20:01
10

Local Tools

22:56
11

Introduction to the Photoshop Interface

07:13
12

Toolbars, Menus and Windows

25:07
13

Setup and Interface

11:48
14

Adobe Libraries

05:57
15

Saving Files

07:39
16

Introduction to Cropping

12:10
17

Cropping for Composition in ACR

04:44
18

Cropping for Composition in Photoshop

12:40
19

Cropping for the Subject in Post

03:25
20

Cropping for Print

07:34
21

Perspective Cropping in Photoshop

07:11
22

Introduction to Layers

08:42
23

Vector & Raster Layers Basics

05:05
24

Adjustment Layers in Photoshop

27:35
25

Organizing and Managing Layers

15:35
26

Introduction to Layer Tools and Blend Modes

21:34
27

Screen and Multiply and Overlay

09:15
28

Soft Light Blend Mode

07:34
29

Color and Luminosity Blend Modes

12:47
30

Color Burn and Color Dodge Blend Modes

07:43
31

Introduction to Layer Styles

11:43
32

Practical Application: Layer Tools

13:06
33

Introduction to Masks and Brushes

04:43
34

Brush Basics

09:22
35

Custom Brushes

04:01
36

Brush Mask: Vignettes

06:58
37

Brush Mask: Curves Dodge & Burn

06:53
38

Brush Mask: Hue & Saturation

07:52
39

Mask Groups

05:52
40

Clipping Masks

04:11
41

Masking in Adobe Camera Raw

07:06
42

Practical Applications: Masks

14:03
43

Introduction to Selections

05:42
44

Basic Selection Tools

17:41
45

The Pen Tool

11:56
46

Masks from Selections

04:22
47

Selecting Subjects and Masking

07:11
48

Color Range Mask

17:35
49

Luminosity Masks Basics

12:00
50

Introduction to Cleanup Tools

07:02
51

Adobe Camera Raw

10:16
52

Healing and Spot Healing Brush

14:56
53

The Clone Stamp Tool

10:20
54

The Patch Tool

06:38
55

Content Aware Move Tool

04:56
56

Content Aware Fill

06:46
57

Custom Cleanup Selections

15:42
58

Introduction to Shapes and Text

13:46
59

Text Basics

15:57
60

Shape Basics

07:00
61

Adding Text to Pictures

09:46
62

Custom Water Marks

14:05
63

Introduction to Smart Objects

04:37
64

Smart Object Basics

09:13
65

Smart Objects and Filters

09:05
66

Smart Objects and Image Transformation

10:57
67

Smart Objects and Album Layouts

11:40
68

Smart Objects and Composites

10:47
69

Introduction to Image Transforming

04:34
70

ACR and Lens Correction

09:45
71

Photoshop and Lens Correction

14:26
72

The Warp Tool

11:16
73

Perspective Transformations

20:33
74

Introduction to Actions in Photoshop

09:27
75

Introduction to the Actions Panel Interface

05:06
76

Making Your First Action

03:49
77

Modifying Actions After You Record Them

11:38
78

Adding Stops to Actions

04:01
79

Conditional Actions

07:36
80

Actions that Communicate

25:26
81

Introduction to Filters

04:38
82

ACR as a Filter

09:20
83

Helpful Artistic Filters

17:08
84

Helpful Practical Filters

07:08
85

Sharpening with Filters

07:32
86

Rendering Trees

08:20
87

The Oil Paint and Add Noise Filters

15:08
88

Introduction to Editing Video

06:20
89

Timeline for Video

08:15
90

Cropping Video

03:34
91

Adjustment Layers and Video

05:25
92

Building Lookup Tables

07:00
93

Layers, Masking Video & Working with Type

15:11
94

ACR to Edit Video

06:10
95

Animated Gifs

11:39
96

Introduction to Creative Effects

06:08
97

Black, White, and Monochrome

18:05
98

Matte and Cinematic Effects

08:23
99

Gradient Maps and Solid Color Grades

12:20
100

Gradients

04:21
101

Glow and Haze

10:23
102

Introduction to Natural Retouching

05:33
103

Brightening Teeth

10:25
104

Clean Up with the Clone Stamp Tool

08:07
105

Cleaning and Brightening Eyes

16:58
106

Advanced Clean Up Techniques

24:47
107

Introduction to Portrait Workflow & Bridge Organization

14:47
108

ACR for Portraits Pre-Edits

21:27
109

Portrait Workflow Techniques

18:46
110

Introduction to Landscape Workflow & Bridge Organization

12:17
111

Landscape Workflow Techniques

37:36
112

Introduction to Compositing & Bridge

06:59
113

Composite Workflow Techniques

34:01
114

Landscape Composite Projects

24:14
115

Bonus: Rothko and Workspace

05:15
116

Bonus: Adding Textures to Photos

07:05
117

Bonus: The Mask (Extras)

05:18
118

Bonus: The Color Range Mask in ACR

04:54

Lesson Info

Perspective Cropping in Photoshop

The next thing that we have is actually a really interesting thing in the crop tool that's more of, I'd say an effect, but a very helpful effect. It's called perspective cropping. And perspective cropping, this can save, we'll just say the word "wonky" a wonky image. I like the word "wonky." If we go into cropping and we open up the perspective crop, I've got two images here for you that we can use this on. This happens to me a lot. I like to visit museums, and I like to photograph the images, the paintings that I see specifically, the quality of light, just to see what painters did. They didn't have necessarily the light source right in front of them. A lot of times they were just painting from memory. But to see how they control light from their memory, it's absolutely brilliant. So I do a lot of this stuff. I was at the Louvre; I shot this photograph. And I don't like the fact that I had to position my body in a weird angle to shoot this painting to not get a glare on it, right. So ...

when we look at this, it's offset. It doesn't look right. And the perspective is totally warped on this photograph. Well, there's a really cool tool in here called the perspective crop tool. And the perspective crop tool can be used in one of two ways. You can either click and drag and make a selection and then edit it later, which I'll show you on the next image. Or you can find very distinct points on an image that you want to be magically fixed with a perspective crop. So if we click right here in this upper left-hand corner and then we click over here on this upper right-hand corner and then we click down here on the lower right-hand corner and then over here on this lower left-hand corner you can see that we don't have the exact same stuff that we had going on with the regular crop tool. And more specifically, we don't have the option to delete or undelete the cropped pixels. So just know that going into this. You can turn on and off the grid if you want that grid on and off. I prefer to keep the grid on because it helps me keep my straight lines straight as I'm doing this. And then we also have resolution here. This data that's coming in here with these dimensions here, I would just ahead and make sure that they stay the same when you're doing this. Because if you did change this from 300 to 50, it will alter the image size. So it's not just a temporary crop like you'd see with something like the regular crop tool. If you change the resolution at this point it will alter the resolution in your image because it's incorporating image size in with this perspective crop. But the cool part is after I've laid those constraints down and I press enter, if we zoom out here, look at that. It automatically assessed how the perspective was warped in the image and it made it perfectly straight. How does this help you? It's a picture of a painting. Well, there are times where I take pictures of my pictures or I take pictures of maybe my pictures in a gallery and I wanna make sure that that is set up correctly. What we need to make sure, though, is that the perspective crop, if we are talking about that in terms of, let's say a gallery, here's another one of my favorite museums, Nelson-Adkins Museum in Missouri. If we look at this, the perspective is warped. I shot it with, I believe it was a 10 millimeter lens on a full frame camera. So you can see that that floor is really warped. Things are starting to warp in from the top, and it doesn't necessarily look right. It doesn't look correct as you would see it with your normal eyes. So if I take this perspective crop and I try to do the same thing that I did before and just pick a point like this and do this, I'm just gonna show you what happens if I press enter on this. Look what happens. If I press enter on that-- let me go ahead and delete that. It's gonna crop it to exactly what I told it I wanted it to be cropped to. So we have to keep that in mind. In the other example, that worked out perfectly fine. That worked out great, okay. So I'm just gonna make sure that resolution is set to zero there. I don't wanna change the resolution on this. So what I need to do now is I need to constrain what I want the actual crop of this image to be. So I said before you can either click on points and if you know the exact points that you need those to be, you can click on those points and go from point to point to get your perspective crop out. But if you don't necessarily know those points, one of the best ways to do this is to make the constraints of how big you want the image to be first, then set that perspective crop. So if you tried to do this the exact same way you did the other one because you saw that, oh, I want that back area to be perfect, well, it's not gonna work that way. So what we need to do is just click and drag, and this will pull out an entire rectangle for us, perfect rectangle. But from here, we get the option to manipulate the handles on this and push and pull the angle at which this is gonna come in. So I like this line right here. I'm gonna go ahead and move this over to that line right there, perfect. And pull it right up to that edge right there. I like this line that's happening down here, so I'll make sure that this line right down here and this line right here are perfect. I've got this side down. Now I'm gonna hop over to this side. I'll click on this, move this right to the bottom line that I have on the same side on the other side. Right to here, there. And then again up here, right to there. And now, if I commit to this and press enter, it automatically crops it and fixes that warped perspective for me. It's a really awesome tool to use when you're working with warped perspectives form wide-angle lenses. I work a lot with 10 millimeter lenses. It's my favorite lens of choice now. Once I got that and put on the Sony full frame, it just makes everything just look wild and epic. But at the same time, it has this drawback. What are the drawbacks? Things that are far away are really far away. And also, areas that should be straight up and down are warped into oblivion. So I know we covered quite a bit here. We talked about the composition basics, understanding why we do what we do when we are cropping. I can't just sit here and tell you about cropping without teaching you a little bit about composition and composition comprehension first. Because I wouldn't be doing you justice in order to understand why it's important to crop and not to be afraid to crop. A lot of times we have this image and it's my precious. We don't wanna crop it, but it needs that crop. So we talked about composition comprehension there. We talked about cropping in Adobe Camera Raw and identified some of the limitations. And those limitations being things like the inability to fill in areas outside of the area that we cropped. We then moved into Photoshop. We talked about regular cropping. Cropping for composition in mind. Cropping to fill in some of the areas where content is not. And then we moved into cropping specifically for a subject where we shot an image that needs a crop because we have to crop something else out. And then we talked about cropping for print and how aspect ratio and image size are in relationship to one another, but not necessarily a direct resemblance of one another. We also talked about perspective cropping, so it also fixes some of the warping while it does the cropping.

Class Materials

Bonus Materials with Purchase

Photoshop Bootcamp Plug-In
Textures
Clouds
Painted Backgrounds
1 – Intro to Photoshop Bootcamp
6 – Intro to Raw Editing.zip
11 – Interface and Setup
16 – Intro to Cropping and Composition.zip
22 – Intro to Layers.zip
26 – Intro to Layer Tools.zip
43 – Intro to Selections.zip
50 – Intro to Cleanup Tools.zip
58 – Intro to Shapes and Text.zip
63 – Intro to Smart Objects.zip
69 – Intro to Image Transforming.zip
74 – Intro to Actions.zip
81 – Filters.zip
88 – Intro to Editing Video.zip
96 – Custom Effects.zip
102 – Natural Retouching.zip
107 – Intro to Portrait Workflow.pdf
110 – Intro to Landscape Workflow.zip
112 – Intro to Compositing.zip
115 – Rothko and Interfaces (Bonus Video).zip
33 – Intro to Masks and Brushes.zip
106 - Frequency Separation.zip

Ratings and Reviews

a Creativelive Student
 

Amazing course, but don't be fooled into thinking this is a beginner's course for photographers. The problem isn't Blake's explanations; they're top. The problem is the vast scope of this course and the order in which the topics are presented. Take layers for example. When I was first learning Photoshop (back when we learned from books), I found I learned little or nothing from, for example, books that covered layers before they covered how to improve/process photographs. These books taught me how to organize, move, and link layers before they showed me what a layer was actually for. Those books tended to teach me everything there is to know about layers (types of layers, how to organize them, how to move them, how to move them two at a time, how to move them two at a time even if there are other layers between the two you're interested in, useful troubleshooting tips, etc. ) all before I even know (from a photographer's point of view) what it is the things actually do. The examples of organizing, linking, and moving mean everything for graphic designers from Day One, but for photographers not so much. Blake does the same thing as those books. Topics he covers extremely early demand a lot of theoretical imagination for a photographer who doesn't already know quite a bit about what he is talking about. Learning about abstract things first and concrete things later only makes PS that much harder to understand. If you AREN'T a beginner, however, this course is amazing. I thought it would be like an Army Bootcamp, taking you from zero and building you into a fit, competent Photoshop grunt. Now I think it's more like Army Bootcamp for high school varsity jocks. It isn't going to take you from the beginning, but the amount you'll get out of it is nonetheless more than your brain can imagine. I've been using PS for years to improve my photographs, and even to create the odd artistic composite or two. The amount I've learned in the first week is amazing, and every day I learn something -- more like many things -- which I immediately implement to improve my productivity and/or widen the horizons of what I can achieve. If you ARE a photographer who's a Photoshop beginner, I'd take very seriously the advice Blake gives in the introduction: Watch one lesson, and practice the skills and principles you learn in that one lesson for two weeks. THEN watch the next lesson. You can't do that of course without buying the course, so it's up to you to decide whether you'd like to learn Photoshop and master Photoshop all from the same course. Learning it first and mastering it later will cost more money, but I think you'll understand everything better and have a much more enjoyable ride in the process. As for me? I'm going to have to find the money to buy this course. There is simply way too much content in each lesson for me to try to take on all at once, but on the other hand I don't want to miss anything at all that he has to share.

Robert Andrews
 

Blake Rudis is the absolute best in teaching photoshop. His knowledge and how he presents the instruction is clear and concise - there is NO ONE BETTER. Yes, his classes require some basic skills, and maybe I'd organize the order of (or group) the classes in a different order, but, let me be clear - if anyone is to be successful or famous in the Photoshop world, it should be Blake Rudis. I strongly recommend his teaching. I started photography and post processing in 2018, and because of this class, I'm know what Im doing. The energy you get when you create something beautiful is profound, it makes you bounce out of bed (at 4AM) like a 5 year old, to go create. It's a great ride! Thanks Blake, & Thanks Creative live.

Esther Gambrell
 

WOW!!! I've been purchasing CL classes for several years now and have watched HOURS of "How-To Photoshop" classes, but this is the first one I've actually purchased because of the AWESOME BONUS content!!! SERIOUSLY??!!?!? A PLUG-IN??? But not only that, Blake is SO easy to understand, and he breaks down concepts in different ways to connect with different people's learning styles. I REALLY appreciated this approach because I am a LEFT-BRAINED creative that has an engineering background, so I really connected to what Blake was saying. THANK YOU FOR THAT! There are TONS of Photoshop courses out there, but I found this one to be the most helpful in they way Blake teaches concepts so that you know WHY you're doing what your doing. I feel like he taught me how to fish with Photoshop to feed me for a lifetime instead of just giving me a fish to feed me for one day. This is the BEST overall PS course out there!!! Thank you!!!!

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