Adobe Photoshop CS6 Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks by Lynette Kent

USE A PUPPET WARP to alter perspective
Photoshop’s Puppet Warp tool can be used to
reposition one item in a photograph or manipulate a
graphic element in a design. You can make simple
adjustments to better position a distracting strand of
hair or completely alter an item to give it a new
position or shape, such as moving a person’s hand or
distorting a flower into a design. Unlike the Liquify
filter, which transforms areas by moving pixels
around, or the Transform command, which globally
transforms the whole image, the Puppet Warp tool
applies a visual mesh to your image. You can click
specific areas, creating drop pins that act as anchor
points, and then move specific areas to warp an area
or element separately from the background.
You can also use the Puppet Warp tool to correct the
perspective in a photograph. By dropping pins in each
corner of items in the photo to act as anchors, you
can add more pins and click and drag the edges of
walls to straighten and reposition them; Photoshop
adjusts the image to fit.
You can apply the Puppet Warp to a Smart Object so
all your distortions are nondestructive and no pixels
are permanently altered.
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1 Open an image as a Smart Object
layer.
2 Click Edit.
3 Click Puppet Warp.
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The Puppet Warp mesh covers
the selected subject.
4 Click the Mode drop-down menu
and select Normal.
5 Click the Density drop-down
menu and select Fewer Points to
change the spacing of the mesh
points.
Note: Fewer Points is less precise
but takes less time for processing.
6 Click Expansion and drag to
increase or decrease the size of
the mesh around the subject.
7 Click Show Mesh ( changes
to ) and the mesh disappears.
8 Click in the corners of the image
to add anchor points and
transformation pins.