Peter Figen Offline Upload & Sell: On
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It's pretty easy once you know how. Here's how:
Open your image
Dupe the background layer
Make sure your rulers are showing on the top and left of your document window (Cmd-R on a Mac, Ctrl-R on a PC)
Place the cursor in the ruler area, hold down the mouse button and drag - you'll be dragging a non printable guide - across from the left for vertical guides and down from the top for horizontal guides
You can reposition guides by hovering the cursor over them and holding the Cmd key on a Mac or Ctrl Key on a PC to get the repositioning grabber. You can add and reposition as much as you want
Click on that duplicated background layer
Activate the Free Transform tool - Cmd-T on a Mac Ctrl-T on a PC
There will be four handles that look like little tiny boxes in the corner. You can use your curser in combination with key strokes for different functions.
In this case, you would look at how the towers line up with the guides and then click on one of the corner "handles" and while holding the Cmd or Ctrl key down, drag the handle in the direction that distorts the image in the way you want.
That's the basics of it. Might be a good idea to watch a couple of youtube tutes to get a better understanding of the finer points.
For more pop, there are many techniques. Your image was quite good already but almost every image can be made better or more dramatic. I used a combination of Curves, Hue/Saturation and large radius sharpening in selective areas to try and bring it more life.
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