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hey guys welcome to another very , exciting tutorial here at the , photoshoptrainingchannel.com , my name ISO's Ramirez and you can find , me on twitter @jrfromptc , will probably make you way better , Photo shop user your composites will look , much more realistic and you'll know , exactly what types of images you'll need , to complete great composite but before , we go any further I would like to , announce that was recently invited to , become one of the admins at the , Photo shop and Light room group on , Facebook the group is a large community , of Photo shop users that share their work , and their knowledge and I would highly , recommend you checking it out , actually today's composition comes from , another group admin Karen who is nice , enough to let us use her images for this , tutorial noticed one of Karen's posts , in the Photocopied Light room group is , disposed here and it's supposed that she , posted up of this image of a man walking , in front of two women in this field with , a sunset and Karen asked people to give , constructive criticism and as you can , see people were giving their thoughts on , proportion and different other things , Karen thought that resizing would solve , the problem and I actually made a , comment on here telling her to use the , horizon line and vanishing points to set , up the perspective and actually , thought about while I wrote the comment , that it might have been Little too , confusing just explaining it in a couple , lines so I actually said that I would , probably make avid on it and right , after I wrote it I decided to make the , video because I think this is something , a lot of people will benefit from , learning how to put images together from , multiple sources to have a cohesive , perspective and making things look right , so this is what this training video is , all about perspective you can get pretty , much everything else right lighting , colors shadows and extractions but if , the perspective is off your viewer will , know something is not right they might , not know exactly what it is but they'll , know something'sarong and don'TEFL , too bad if you're making these , perspective mistakes'vie seen movie , posters and advertisements that are just , horrible when , comes to perspective so even some pros , have problems with putting together , multiple images from different sources , but anyway let's get started with this , tutorial this is Karen's image here and , as you can see it's composed of this , background group which contains this , field Sun house this brick pathway and , this tree here on the side and the other , part of the composition is the people , here which is the man and the two women , now if you look at this image as aw hole , you might be able to spot several things , don't look right to your eye but the , only thing we're going to focus on this , tutorial is the perspective and you'll , see that just by fixing the perspective , things are just going to look so much , better so how do we fix the perspective , of this particular image or any other , image well let's first talk about , horizon lines and vanishing points now , this is a one-point perspective , illustration and the vanishing point is , here in the middle and what that means , is that all the lines in the image end , up in this vanishing point the vanishing , point is located on the horizon line so , let me show you how that look sin a , photo so there's a photo hereof a , tunnel with barrels all the lines in the , image end up in the same vanishing point , and actually overlaid it so that they , both had the same vanishing point right , there so why do weened to know that , well maybe we're working with a , composition and we want to duplicate an , item within that image or bring in a , separate item and we want to place it , and make it seem as it belong there , so maybe you want to duplicate this box , so I made a duplicate of that box and , I'going to move that box around and , usually when people duplicate something , or bring something in they just move it , around and sort of guess where things go , and say oh I want this item here and if , you just do that things are not going to , lineup for example her ewe can clearly , see that this item dozen'belong here , the perspective is all off so the , vanishing point is here yet this items , vanishing point is pointing to some , other vanishing point way out fear , so what do we do to make sure that , things , line up Ina composition well first you , ha veto determine your vanishing point , in your horizon line in this particular , illustration we already know where those , are the horizon line is this black line , going across and the vanishing point is , this red circle here now that we have , that determined we can use the pivot , point when you press cutlet to transform , you'll have a bounding box around your , layer and this middle item here the , pivot point you can click and drag that , around you can click and drag it over to , the horizon line and ideally the , vanishing point so I'just going to , click that and put it in the vanishing , point now if I scale by holding alt and , shift that's option and shift on the Mac , you'll see that I'going to scale in , perspective so I can scale all the way , and even make that cube come over here , to the top so now it seems like I have , cube here at the top and it's all in , perspective now if I move that and bring , it down it's no longer in perspective so , I can move it tithe left Little bit , or to the right a little bit if I bring , it all the way out it's no longer in , perspective so we're going to keep that , into consideration that the item that we , copy and paste or that we bring in from , another image will have limitations , based on the perspective of your image , so how does this relate to a real , photograph well we're going to go back , into this photograph here and I made a , duplicate or the barrel and we're going , to do the same thing we press cutlet to , transform and I'm going to put the pivot , point right on the vanishing point which , is somewhere around there and I can hold , shift alt shift an option on the Mac to , scale that out and as you can see it , sort of looks like there's a barrel , closer to us now or I can move that all , the way to the other side and this looks , like there'slake a barrel coming out of , the wall there and it's all within , perspective now I could also move this , to the right a little bit and it still , looks like it's in perspective simply , because we'vie kept it all constrained to , the vanishing point now all this is , one-point perspective or we have one , vanishing point , there's also two-point perspective where , we have two vanishing points so this is , sort of like the corner of street so , maybe this is the building here sidewalk , along the right sidewalk along the left , and you're standing right in the middle , taking a picture or we have it where , you're taking picture of a tall , building right from the corner or where , you're standing on top of a taller , building taking a picture of a shorter , building and this is what you would get , there's also three-point perspective , where we have three the vanishing points , so we have vanishing point here here and , here this is our horizon line of course , now these are a little more complicated , and for this tutorial we're going to , keep things simple and we're going to be , working with one-point perspective now , another thing that you ha veto take into , consideration when you're going to , composite images together is the , altitude of the camera and whether the , camera was pointing up or down the , easiest thing to determine is whether , the camera was pointing up or down in , this particular image I have a guide , that's going right across horizon line , this means and if this were a photograph , it would mean that when this picture was , taken the camera was pointing right at , the horizon line now if we were to move , this up like so it would mean that the , camera was pointing down when this , picture was taken maybe we're taking , picture of something on the ground , because the center of the frame is here , and the horizon line is up here so if , the horizon line is above the center of , the frame , the camera was pointing down if the , horizon line is here below the center of , the frame it means the camera was , pointing up maybe you were taking a , picture of something in the sky like an , airplane or a building or something , so the horizon line would beat the , bottom so now that we know these things , we can go back into Karen's composition , and we can determine how we're going to , fix this so let's first start with the , Mani have the man file here which is , this man walking down this dirt path and , we have to determine where the horizon , line is and the vanishing point so you , might bethinking well maybe this is the , horizon line here , or maybe appear somewhere like where , this fence starts but you know that's , just guessing all we know for sure that , this is the center of the frame and just , by looking at the image you can sort of , tell that the camera was pointing down , when the picture was shot which means , that the horizon line is somewhere on , this top half of the image the question , is where well let's look at the clues of , the image gives there's straight lines , going here on this bench in this fence , that sort of indicate that the vanishing , point is somewhere out here so what we , can do is we can go to image canvas size , and push the anchor tithe left so we , have more space on the right I'm going , to just add a zero to that and press , okay and that's going to give us all , this white space here to the right and I , can come back in and I'going to grab , my line tool and'm just going to , change the color tired just so we can , see what we'redoing and I'm going to , just draw a line from here all the way , to the right I'm just going to try to , keep that in line so maybe make sure I , get it right , somewhere around there and I'just , trying to make sure that the line that I , drew is right on that bench run that , line and I can see there's another line , down here and again I'll try to do the , same thing I'll try to keep it right on , it so maybe there and I can already tell , to the vanishing points going to be , somewhere around here so you'll see that , when I bring this over tithe bottom of , the bench it's going to lineup , perfectly so yeah that's more or less , where vanishing point is it's like right , below the edge of the frame so just to , make things easy on us we'll just say , that the horizon line is right on the , edge of the frame so how does that , relate to this image well let's make it , easy on us and let's just create a , marquee from the top of the Hat to the , top of the frame and we'll just see how , this relates tithe picture well so , that's the same distance between the top , of the head and its chin so when we come , hereto this image we'll just draw a , marquee top of the Hat , to the chin and move that up this is , probably not the best way of doing it , but it'certainly the fastest and I'm , just going to draw a line right up here , so that's where the hole right that's , where his horizon line is now where is , the horizon line on this on this , background image well it's sort of hard , to tell there's no real lines in this , path this is not part of the original , image so we really don't have any lines , that tell us in the house it's not part , of the original image either so we , really don't know where the vanishing , point is and they're probably around , here somewhere , and what we do know is that the horizon , line is somewhere around this line here , actually represented by the grass and , the trees so we know where the horizon , line is and it's somewhere around there , so that's a good thing if I bring the , picture back you'll see now why this , looks wrong to your eye when you look at , it the horizon line for the man is up , here yet the horizon line for the , background is down here now there's two , ways of fixing that you can either and , actually I'm just going to I'going to , put this line in the man group you can , either bring the man down and match the , horizon line like so or you could bring , the background up so let's do that let's , bring the background up so I'm gonna , bring the background up right there and , actually I'm going to turnoff the women , group just so we can focus on this man , and notice it as soon as Id id that , things are looking much much better'm , going to go ahead and I'm going to open , up my windows history panel just to , clean see just so we can see how he , started so this is how we started here , in the beginning it sort of looks like , he'floating and you know he really , dozen'look like he belongs but then , once we fix the perspective although , there's all this empty space here at the , bottom he actually looks like he belongs , down so that's why perspective and , horizons and vanishing points are so , important they help us create believable , compositions so again this tutorial is , not about you know creating shadows and , grass and all of that so I'Mont going , to worry too much about that however I , am going to create , I just fill out that space here at the , bottom just so it dozen't bother us , while we're working with perspectives , I'm just going to make a selection there , click on the background press ctr J , command Jon the Mac to duplicate just , the grass press ctr Tot transform , command on the Mac I'm going to hold , shift and alt and I'm just going to , scale that out and I'm going to bring it , down and put it around here somewhere , and then maybe bring this down and I , know this is not perfect and you know , it's not the best way of doing it but I , just wanted to fill out that background , so it wan't distracting while we were , working with perspective so what I'm , going to do now is I'm just going to , hide the line that determines where his , horizon line is so let me turn that off , okay now let's worry about the women so , we have the women here where is their , horizon line well let'look at their , original photo and their original photo , has no real lines that tell us where the , horizon line might be we can probably , get a clue by following this line maybe , this one but it's not going to be exact , but what we do know is that if we put a , line right in the middle of the frame we , can tell that whoever shot this picture , was looking down which means that the , horizon line is going to be on this top , half and just by looking at the image , can pretty much guess that the horizon , line is somewhere above her elbow and , somewhere below below this line here and , that'just an educated guess so why , don't we split the difference and the , horizon line would probably be around , where her nose or her mouth is so let's , just use that as reference and yeah , sometimes you won't be able to tell , right away but you can make educated , guesses like I just did and things are , going to just look so much better than , not putting any thought into it at all , so I'm just going to grab this group and , I'm just going to go up down to the , horizon line right about there see you , in just by moving her up like that and , matching the horizons these ladies look , more like they belong in this image the , only problem we have now is scale this , man is closer to us so he should be , bigger than these ladies so I'm going to , press cutlet , to transform and I'm going to scale from , the horizon line so I'm going to move , the pivot point over tithe horizon line , here I'm going to hold alt shift and I'm , just going to scale them down Little , bit like so and then going to press , Enter , so now everything looks into perspective , if we wanted to increase or decrease the , size of this man we go through the same , thing ctr T command T to transform move , the pivot point over to the horizon line , hold alt and shift option and shift on , the Mac and scale the min if he's , getting closer to us or scale it down if , he'getting closer to the house so I'm , just going to put them here for now and , what I'going to do now is I'm going to , go into window history I'm going to , create a new snapshot and this is the , original image and this is the image , that we're working with now now one of , the problems that you might see is that , in this image we don't have much of the , sky which is what maybe other image , great so what we can do is we can select , all the groups and just move them down , until we get enough of the sky and I can , press ctr Ton the man okay and scale , from the horizon line press ctr 0 to , get the bird's eye vie wand I can see , the entire bounding box and scale them , in just a little bit maybe like right , there and zoom in now assuming that I , wanted to use this image of this man and , I wanted to have everything in , perspective this is where I need to have , them Icahn move to the left and to the , right but if I'going to make him any , bigger his feet are going to go out of , the frame can't move them up because , he no longer will be in perspective and , it'll look like he'floating again so , I'just going to go into window history , create a new snapshot so this is how we , had it before so we have it now we have , more of the sky now if you want an image , that has a man standing right about this , point in his , hat is right where the Sun is you have , to take a new picture if you're the one , who took the original picture or find a , different photograph photograph where , the horizon line of the subject is right , below his hip that way you can composite , that in and it dozen't look like he's , floating and the same thing for the , women you ha veto Fonda picture of the , women that the horizon line is somewhere , along their knees or right above their , knees just so they fit on this image now , if you can find another image or you , want to use these particular images for , whatever reason on this exact , composition there's some things you can , doubt you do have to cheat a little bit , and I'll show you what they are first , let's work with this man and I'm going , to press ctr Tot transform and what we , want to do in this composition is keep , the man's hat right under the Sun so , we'll do that we'll do that we'll put , the pivot point right on his hat and , we'll just scale them up like so but we , do have to hide his feet and almost , anything that shows any perspective or , anything that will give way that he , does not belong in this composition and , I'm also gonna move on tithe to the , left a little bit and also this line , sort of tells you where the this man's , vanishing point is maybe the Hat a , little bit too so what we need to do is , press ctr Rand rotate him to the right , a little bit to sort of make it seem , like the vanishing point is on the , horizon , so maybe want to write even more and , then press Enter now I'm going to move , them to the left all right and now let's , turn on the group for the women walking , and I'm just going to move them down to , right about there and I'm going to take , another snapshot so this is the original , image this is the image that shows , everybody's full body and they're in the , right perspective and this is the image , where we had to cheat a little bit and , move the man in high demands feet and , rotate them just to fool the eye and , make it think that it's part of this , perspective and the women we really , did't do much we just brought them down , but even by doing this you can see that , there , now in scale it dozen't look like you're , floating anymore even though they're the , same size as in this image just by , putting them in the right perspective , now they look like they belong that's it , for this tutorial Hope you enjoyed it , and that you learn something new I can , guarantee you that after watching this , tutorial you'll never look at a movie , poster or a magazine advertisement the , same ever again'm sure you're going to , spot tons of prospective mistakes if you , have any questions about this tutorial , feel free to leave your questions down , below don't forget to click on the like , button and of course don'forget to , check out photocopy and light room , group on Facebook and I would like to , thank Karen for letting us use her , composition once again guys thank you , for watching and I'll talk to you again , next time , you
