Puppet Warp in depth

This one is amazing even to me.

Puppet Warp has been around for a few versions of Photoshop now, but as is true for many Photoshop tools and filters, there is so much more than first meets the eye. Most lessons for puppet warp will use a wooden model like the one above. We too, will begin there. I have a slightly fuzzy model image so we will practice cutting it out with a path (learning the path tool) and make it appear sharp. Then, on it's own layer, we will add anchor points and make the model move.

But that is just the start! A little know ability of puppet warp is that it allows you to move items on a flat later as individual pieces. You can even move pieces on a flat image above and behind each other! When you okay it, you will have an edited image but only one layer! Amazing.

Lastly there is one more (at least) use for which the puppet warp is perfect. In class we will use Photoshop to make a panorama from 2 images and then tweek the image using puppet warp so that each part is brought up to level. Did I mention that this thing is amazing?