The “Vanishing Point” filter
In this part of this lesson, I’m going to try to explain how the “Vanishing Point” filter works in Photoshop.

What I need to do is open a photo of a museum and three photographs with art.

Ok, what do we do?  We place the three art photos in the proper perspective in the museum site, the place where it currently shows only a black board.

How do we work?

The first thing I do is to select the entire picture of the first painting.

Then I click the “Edit” button in the toolbar and click the “Copy” from the drop-down menu. Because I am copying the photo and pasting into the “Vanishing Point” dialog box, we can not click and drag.

Next we select the photo of the museum and we select the area in the picture where we want to paste the picture of the painting. The long black board along the wall.

Then we click the “Filter” button in the menu bar and choose “Vanishing Point” in the drop-down menu.

This opens the dialog “Vanishing Point”.

In the dialog, we define the four corner points by clicking in the image.

When you have clicked all four corners, a blue grid appears.

You can still resize the grid by clicking and dragging the drag blocks on the edge of the grid.

Click the shortcut Ctrl + V on your keyboard to paste picture of the painting in the grid.

The photo of the painting still appears stuck in the upper left corner of the dialog. Click and drag this to the place you want. You can further adjust the size of the picture with the “Transformation” tool.

Click the “OK” button when you’re done.

I do the same for the second photo.

So select everything in this picture, click Ctrl + C on your keyboard to copy.
Select the photo of the museum.
Click on the “Filter” in the menu bar and choose “Vanishing Point” in the drop-down menu.
The perspective is still present, so the only thing I have to do is to click Ctrl + V on the keyboard to paste.
Then I place the photo in the right position and click the Ok button to close the dialog box.
The second picture is now added to our image.
I do the third also.

Text in perspective
For clarity, we can not do text in perspective.
For this we must first convert our text into pixels.
For this, select the text layer.
Click the “Layer” button in the menu bar, choose “Rasterize” in the drop-down menu and click “Text”.
This makes our text layer as a “normal layer”.
Then select the text that you have now created as pixels.
You copy the selected to the cache of your computer (Ctrl + C).
Then delete the selection (Ctrl + D).
Create a new layer, you must always do so, and open the Vanishing Point filter.
To add a new plane at a different angle, click the “Create Plane” tool.
And you paste the selection in the dialog box by clicking the Ctrl V.
Drag the text into position and click the OK button.

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