In this tutorial, we will create a simple perspective effect using Photoshop (although the technique can be used with a simple pencil and ruler). The effect it gives simulate a curved 3D plane, but in reality all you use are straight lines to achieve this effect.

Let's begin by creating a new document in Photoshop (I used Photoshop 7 for this, but you can use older versions). For the purpose of this example, I'll create a nice 500 x 500 pixels document, with the background set to white (fig.1).

figure 1

To start the design, we'll need to divide the document into sections. For this tutorial, I decided to separate the document into 10 segments horizontally and vertically (the more segments, smoother the end curve will be). Doing the simple math, we calculate that each section must be 50 pixels high and wide. To help separate the document, we'll create some guides. To create new guides, go to the menu View > New Guide (fig. 2). Start by creating a series of guides vertically at these positions: 0, 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300, 350, 400, 450, 500. Repeate the same procedures to create guides horizontally. You should get something like figure 3.

figure 2

figure 3

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