Vanishing Point dialog box overview
The Vanishing Point dialog box (Filter >
Vanishing Point) contains tools for defining the perspective planes,
tools for editing the image, a measure tool (Photoshop Extended
only), and an image preview. The Vanishing Point tools (Marquee,
Stamp, Brush, and others) behave similarly to their counterparts
in the main Photoshop toolbox. You can use the same keyboard shortcuts
to set the tool options. Opening the Vanishing Point menu 
displays
additional tool settings and commands.
- A.
- Vanishing Point menu
- B.
- Options
- C.
- Toolbox
- D.
- Preview of vanishing point session
- E.
- Zoom options
For the keyboard shortcuts in Vanishing Point, see Keys for using Vanishing Point.
Vanishing Point tools
Vanishing Point tools behave like their counterparts in the main Photoshop toolbox. You can use the same keyboard shortcuts for setting tool options. Selecting a tool changes the available options in the Vanishing Point dialog box.
- Edit Plane tool
- Selects, edits, moves, and resizes planes.
- Create Plane tool
- Defines the four corner nodes of a plane, adjusts the size and shape of the plane, and tears off a new plane.
- Marquee tool
-
Makes square or rectangular selections, and also moves or clones
selections.
Double-clicking the Marquee tool
in a plane selects the entire plane. - Stamp tool
- Paints with a sample of the image. Unlike the Clone Stamp tool, the Stamp tool in Vanishing Point can’t clone elements from another image. See also Paint with sampled pixels in Vanishing Point and Retouch with the Clone Stamp tool.
- Brush tool
- Paints a selected color in a plane.
- Transform tool
- Scales, rotates, and moves a floating selection by moving the bounding box handles. Its behavior is similar to using the Free Transform command on a rectangle selection. See also Transform freely.
- Eyedropper tool
- Selects a color for painting when you click in the preview image.
- Measure tool
- Measures distances and angles of an item in a plane. See also Measure in Vanishing Point
- Zoom tool
- Magnifies or reduces the view of the image in the preview window.
- Hand tool
- Moves the image in the preview window.
Magnify or reduce the preview image
Do any of the following:-
Select the Zoom tool
in
the Vanishing Point dialog box, and click or drag in the preview
image to zoom in; hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS), and
click or drag to zoom out. -
Specify a magnification level in the Zoom text box at the bottom of the dialog box.
-
Click the Zoom Out
or
the Zoom In 
buttons. -
To temporarily zoom into the preview image, hold down the “x” key. This is especially helpful for placing the corner nodes when defining a plane, and for working on details.