Oh and so you probably know all this but it doesn't hurt just in case:
With the 2-point perspective template, it's fairly large to start out with. If my angle is more aerial, I move the template so that it's mostly the bottom part that shows (making the horizon line higher), and vice versa for a view from closer to the ground. For aesthetic reasons, there's generally a closer point and a farther point, but even with this template you can choose how far/close those points may be. For instance, if your picture's centered on an area more to the left of the template, the points will be closer to equidistant, whereas you can move it really close to that point on the right and make it nearly a 1-point perspective with just a touch of 2-point. Flipping horizontal changes which side has the closer point. You can either shrink the whole image or just shrink it horizontally to get the points closer together, and vice versa. And you can rotate it 90 degrees one way or the other to do an aerial-ish view. So like at The Engine, when I posted this, people thought it'd make all my backgrounds look the same, but in reality, you can make every 2-point perspective piece known to man, if'n you know how to use it. Yay!
I learned of the template thing from Pop Mhan's perspective tutorial (http://www.popmhan.com/bb/viewthread.php?tid=284), and realized that with Photoshop such a template could become even more versatile.
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Oh and so you probably know all this but it doesn't hurt just in case:
With the 2-point perspective template, it's fairly large to start out with. If my angle is more aerial, I move the template so that it's mostly the bottom part that shows (making the horizon line higher), and vice versa for a view from closer to the ground. For aesthetic reasons, there's generally a closer point and a farther point, but even with this template you can choose how far/close those points may be. For instance, if your picture's centered on an area more to the left of the template, the points will be closer to equidistant, whereas you can move it really close to that point on the right and make it nearly a 1-point perspective with just a touch of 2-point. Flipping horizontal changes which side has the closer point. You can either shrink the whole image or just shrink it horizontally to get the points closer together, and vice versa. And you can rotate it 90 degrees one way or the other to do an aerial-ish view. So like at The Engine, when I posted this, people thought it'd make all my backgrounds look the same, but in reality, you can make every 2-point perspective piece known to man, if'n you know how to use it. Yay!
I learned of the template thing from Pop Mhan's perspective tutorial (http://www.popmhan.com/bb/viewthread.php?tid=284), and realized that with Photoshop such a template could become even more versatile.