Perspective tools for Photoshop
polycounter lvl 10
Hey everyone,
I've been doing a number of illustrations which involved a lot of alignment to perspective recently (architectural things basically) and caught myself on hating to draw all those perspective grids. I've googled a bit and found Epic's Carapace utility which was created for making of the perspective grids. Unfortunately, it doesn't work on Macs which I'm used to, so I've decided to make something similar, but within Photoshop.
That's how the Perspective tools were born.
I'm using them for two months already and I think I polished them enough to share with everyone who struggling with grids like me.
What can you do with them:
- one point perspective grid from PathTool point
- one point perspective grid from intersection of paths
- parallel grids
- quick recoloring to red/green/blue (x/y/z)
- restoring paths and path points from grid layers
Here's a video with demo and download link, I hope that'll be helpful to someone.
This should work on CS6 and CC, can't say about CS5 and lower though.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mtrrbz-1Co"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mtrrbz-1Co[/ame]
Kind regards,
Sergey
I've been doing a number of illustrations which involved a lot of alignment to perspective recently (architectural things basically) and caught myself on hating to draw all those perspective grids. I've googled a bit and found Epic's Carapace utility which was created for making of the perspective grids. Unfortunately, it doesn't work on Macs which I'm used to, so I've decided to make something similar, but within Photoshop.
That's how the Perspective tools were born.
I'm using them for two months already and I think I polished them enough to share with everyone who struggling with grids like me.
What can you do with them:
- one point perspective grid from PathTool point
- one point perspective grid from intersection of paths
- parallel grids
- quick recoloring to red/green/blue (x/y/z)
- restoring paths and path points from grid layers
Here's a video with demo and download link, I hope that'll be helpful to someone.
This should work on CS6 and CC, can't say about CS5 and lower though.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mtrrbz-1Co"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mtrrbz-1Co[/ame]Kind regards,
Sergey
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http://wiki.polycount.net/PhotoshopTools#Actions.2C_Filters.2C_Scripts
Anyway. Good job on this!
Does this work on PC and will it be updated to work in CS5?
tingham, whoa! I probably wouldn't bother with the scripts if I knew something like that exists! But in the end I feel like that was a nice math exercise for me (at least I think I understood how to use functions properly
lloyd, I totally understand: I have the same with other toolkit which is a separate application, it's just so hard to transfer data between apps and so on, and so on. I wonder why Epic hasn't made Carapace as a PS's plugin: they have so many amazing coders and technical artists. A friend of mine, who made MagicPicker colorwheel for Photoshop, says that plugins on Air are so simple comparing to 'real' c++/c#/whaever code :>
synergy11, I tested it on Win7 (both CS6 and CC), I can't say about CS5: no one of my friends uses it anymore so I can't test it. I'm 75% sure that scripts would work, can't say about the panel though: I think the newest Adobe Configurator only saves them CS6+ compatible, but I would be grateful if you try them!
Thanks! This gave me a grin.
Gridus allows you to quickly hoist your current canvas into your clipboard as tiff data so you can paste it into whatever program you want. Additionally you can save out PDF or Tiff files for use later on.