Vanishing Point
Wix is a bitch. Seriously, why can't you create a blogging app like Weebly and Wordpress and Livejournal? I could happily blog whilst being surrounded by sweaty people in the evening train. First time I'm going to do after I get these visual blog thingies done, is write a petition to Wix. Also, could you add an option to comment on posts while you're at it? Seriously, out of all the shitty website makers, I had to choose the shittiest shitty one.
It's too late to back out now, but I'm still writing that petition. Wix is at that point where they should start working on keeping their customers instead of attracting new ones.
Anyway, vanishing point. I've always hated perspective drawing, mostly because I hate using rulers. The art teacher in my previous school was an architect, and it was traumatising, let me just tell you.
So I should be glad when Photoshop introduced vanishing points. Saves me a lot of crap. Basically, a mixture of Perspective Transform and Clipping Masks. That doesn't make sense, but it makes sense to me.
Look at the house below. Look at all the white powder. What if someone told you that snow was actually cocaine? Would you get high from the placebo?
Anyway, pretty house. Pretty cocaine. Pretty trees, pretty sky, yadda yadda. You know what's not pretty? That Christmas garland, right there. Say it's 2027 and religious fluidity is the new thing. Garlands offend people. Mistletoes offend people. Briskets offend people. Even the very idea of celebration offends people because fuck you, it's 2027 and old-age traditions shouldn't dictate your idea of having fun. Be different and hang pretzels or something. Although pretzels may resemble the infinity sign which reminds you of the eternal life promised after death. Everything is Illuminati, the world will end in two minutes and what's the meaning of life, man? Dang, that was deeeeep.
Save your skin, go to Filter > Vanishing Point...
I love how they add "..." because it implies a sense of mystery and anticipation. Sort of like a drumroll. Maybe it's a visual interpretation of drumrolls, or drumrolls are an audio interpretation of "..."? Who knows?
As you can see below, the Vanishing Point window is a bit old school. Nevermind. Create Plane Tool (shortcut C) and click anywhere on the picture. Basically you're creating a two-dimensional surface in the picture, as can be seen below. Make sure that the lines are blue, otherwise they won't work. A yellow or red line usually indicates a nonsensical plane. See, even Photosho
An example of a good plane:
To "delete" the garland, there are two ways. First, use the Marquee tool to select the area around a window or a wall. Then, hold Option and drag it over the garland. This will essentially create a copy of your selection, which will cover the garland up. The second option is to select the area around the garland itself, then hold Command and drag to an area you want the garland to be covered with, similar to the Patch tool. Since the wall has ridges, pay attention to those to make sure they match the surrounding ridges.
You can also insert images or text into the plane. They have to be rasterized first, but then you just Copy (Command + C), go into the Vanishing Point window, paste the rasterized image/text somewhere (Command + V), and then drag it into the plane, as can be seen below.
I was once friends with this Korean girl, and she couldn't say my name---it was always "Rarasu" or "Rarase". Similar situation here, Christmas becomes "Kurismas"---at least, I think that was the thought process behind our class shenanigans? Not sure. It could've been a secret Illuminati password for all I know. Isn't that weird, like anything could be a password to something and we'd never know.
Look at this damn nice kitchen. Only, walla, your client wants a brown striped wallpaper on the walls---excluding the cabinet, stove, and tiles, because she has taste obviously.
Instead of making two planes, it's easier to just create one plane, one being perpendicular to the other. You can do that by pressing Command while you drag the side of an existing plane. In the screenshot below, I have extended the right wall into a floating floor thing.
If you don't want the new surface to be perpendicular to the existing one, you can always adjust by holding Option while you change the angle:
To insert the pattern, simply rasterize it, and then copy and paste and drag it into the plane. Because the planes are linked, you only have to do it once, and it will apply to both planes. This also ensures a much smoother application (I sound like a skincare saleswoman don't I).
A three-sided Kurismas HOLY PHOTOSHOPCEPTION.
By the way my Wix just crashed.
Seriously, it's 2016. Shouldn't crashes come with warnings? "We're going to crash in thirty seconds, please save your progress." The other day our campus building was having a blackout or something, and they had the decency to announce it beforehand---"please save your progress, we are having a temporary blackout." That's professionalism.
Professionalism. What a funny word, right there.
Anyway, to save the stove and clock cabinets, just go in with the Polygonal Lasso tool and select the areas that you WANT the wallpaper to be applied on. As you can see I didn't do a good job with the ghost clock below but hey, it was late in the afternoon and I was craving Cheetos. Priorities, people. And the rest turned out great except for the small gap between the ceiling and the right wall, but we can just pretend that's mold. Realistic Photoshop, now that's a first.
Now excuse me, it's 3 pm and I clearly need some MSG in my blood.