How do you change perspective on a screenshot

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alex.barylski
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How do you change perspective on a screenshot

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Like this: http://www.bigstockphoto.com/photo/view/2591890

I have a flat screenshot and want to add some perspective but when I drag the corners to change the shape of the rectanlge into a trapazoid (or whatever it's called) the image always looks skewed. :(

ANyone know of an article or tool whcih I can use to give a flat image some 3D perspective?
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kaszu
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Re: How do you change perspective on a screenshot

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Don't know any article, but this is how I would do it in Photoshop:
1) Take image
2) Edit -> Transform -> Perspective: move bottom reference point to the right and right reference point up
3) Edit -> Transform -> Skew: move both top right and bottom right reference points closer to each other
4) Edit -> Transform -> Scale: scale image by x axis

Steps:
http://www.skudra.eu/kasis/dev-net/pers ... -steps.jpg
Result:
Image
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Re: How do you change perspective on a screenshot

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That's... actually pretty nifty. I like it.
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