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Compositing with two-point perspective - Affinity Photo Tutorial
From the course: Advanced Affinity Photo for Desktop
Compositing with two-point perspective
- [Instructor] Here's a photograph of a London street and I want to add a London phone box to it. The trouble is I've photographed this phone box much too close up and the perspective doesn't match the perspective of the street. We can fix that with a perspective adjustment. Choose the perspective tool and the grid appears. Change it from single plane to dual plane and now, change the mode from destination to source. We can now grab the inside handles and move them so that they align with the corner of our object. You'll notice that I'm dragging it outside the object. That doesn't matter as long as the whole object is enclosed. Move to the outer handles and drag those, as well, and the trick, here, is to get the perspective lines in the grid to match the perspective of the image. You should also try to ensure that the edges are parallel to the edges of your object. We'll do the same on the other side and here, we can see that the grid lines are sloping down, slightly, compared with…
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