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Warping images

Warping images - Photoshop Tutorial

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Warping images

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- [Instructor] Photoshop's warp tools are a great way to distort an image in order to composite it with another. Here we've got this corrugated metal on a fence, and I want to put a photo on the metal. The first thing that I'll do, is I will select the metal layer, and then I'm going to choose the object selection tool, and drag out a rectangle around the corrugated metal, and Photoshop will shrink wrap that, and select it. Then I'll use the layer menu, choose new and then layer via copy in order to create a copy of the metal, which I'm going to use as the base layer for a clipping mask in a few moments. All right, let's start distorting our photo. I'll make that visible and then use Command + T or Control + T in order to free transform it. I'll go ahead and scale it down, and I can see that I have the link unlinked. So let me undo that, and then link this so that it constrains the proportions, and then I'll…

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