How to make the gound

[anglwngss]

I know.. this sounds silly, but I can't figure out how to make a ground.. For example, in almost all of the photoshop creations in this thread.. (can't link threads, please Google "Camaro5 Playing with Crayons"

the car appears like it's on concrete, or tile or the like..

I have tile/concrete patterns, but they all appear vertical, as if they were standing next to my monitor. How do I get them to lay like a floor so I can sit a car (or whatever) on top of them?

 

[iDad]

Go to menuEdit> transform >perspective pull on the lower corners until you have the angle you want
may need to scale to size

 

[anglwngss]

If I use a pattern, it just changes the shape of the pattern. Doesn't really change the perspective of it.

 

[iDad]

you need to rasterize pattern first

 

[anglwngss]

rastersize layer? (if yes, It's greyed out)

rastersize pattern (where/how?)

 

[iDad]

After you place the pattern on the image that you want right-click the layer pallet and you'll see rasterize layer do that, then use perspective on that layer

 

[iDad]

View attachment 29174
This floor used to be a flat image, I positioned it using perspective

 

[anglwngss]

I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

These are the steps I'm doing.

File- New

Rectangle tool- Shape layers (make rectangle)

Layer- Rastersize- Layer

Double click layer- pattern overlay

Edit- Transform- Perspective


This is what I end up with.



It's not changing the perspective at all., just the shape of the image.

 

[Paul]

Are you then pulling a corner of the 'perspective' highlighted image and dragging it our or what ever way you want?

 

[anglwngss]

i guess not? I'm doing what this tutorial is suggesting:

 

[anglwngss]

http://webdoubts.com/software/photoshop-transform-perspective.html

 

[anglwngss]

webdoubts.com/ software/photoshop-transform-perspective.html

 

[anglwngss]

Take out the space before the word software.

sorry.. I posted the whole thing the first time, and that post is awaiting mod approval.

 

[Paul]

When you have finished playing with perspective, go for the distort option an pull it down to look flat to the floor

 

[anglwngss]

I think i got it.. I can make this work using the transform tools only on images I copy/paste into Photoshop, but if I'm using a pattern overlay, it's not the same. So, now I've got to go find a bunch of floor type images. Thanks for the help guys.

 

[Paul]

You can use the pattern overlay and transform it though?

 

[anglwngss]

no way, man.. I just got this one figured out! lol.

 

[Paul]