Crop To Reference

Crop To Reference in Adobe Photoshop — with two ready prompts: the immediate one, and the one that makes it stick. 1 real situation leads here.

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The moments that lead here

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Straighten and crop a photo of my sculpture so proportions line up with the drawing reference.

2 ready prompts

Written for the moment this actually comes up.

Execute — do the immediate task

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Straighten the sculpture photo and crop to match the drawing reference proportions using…
Straighten the sculpture photo and crop to match the drawing reference proportions using perspective-crop so the principal planes align, then save a corrected JPEG at original resolution.

Improve — make it easier to accept

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Make the sculpture photo ready for proportional overlay — use perspective crop to align the…
Make the sculpture photo ready for proportional overlay — use perspective crop to align the pedestal and major planes to the drawing, straighten horizons, maintain full resolution, and export a version at 300 dpi named 'sculpture_aligned_for_overlay.jpg' plus a copy with guide lines showing the adjustments.

Who does this, and with what

The same task is different work inside a different job.

Illustrator / Digital ArtistAdobe Photoshopalso: Straighten Sculpture Photoalso: Align Photo Proportions

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