ISSUES in perspective warp

Hi Lisbet.  I wonder where you got the image from, or did you construct it yourself?

I ask because the perspective is wrong.  the two boxes wrapped in white, imediately behind the parcel you are trying to edit, appears to be larger towards the left, but it is clearly further from the camera. so should be smaller towards its far end.

I have copied the leaf shape to its own layer, and also copied the parcel to its own layer.  From your screen shot, I think the parcel was already on its own layer.

OK, a big problem with your screen shot is the three planes are not connected.  I pretty sure they need to be for PW to work correctly.  I have made sure they have snapped  together in my screen shot.

I am using Windows and use Lazy Nezumi to show me an image's perspective.  That is not available for a Mac, but you can use a three point workpath like below.  As you can see the image Vanishing Point is on the wrong side.  In fact, the perspective is close to being parallel, as in there is no perspective.

With the Vanish Point establised we can use the other two points to show us how your box should look.

The front to back perspective is about right.

Leaving the Vanishing Points in place, I moved the end points to align with the parcel.

It's actually not too bad. BTW  I tried the rear long side, and that was also correctly aligned (ignoring the fact that the scene perspective is wrong).

When we move things with Free Transform, we can do that with a woprkpath selected, because it will insist on warping the workpath. So we stroke the path with a thin brush on a new layer.  OK, Perspective Warp was greyed out, so I'll need to strok those paths.

I've set up the PW planes.

Bugger!  I should have set a perspective guide for that upper left edge. 🙂  I am not going to do it again because you can see my mistake and will avoide it yourself.

You wanted to give the parcel softer edges. We do that with shading.

I have brushed soft white lines on three edges, on a new layer.  (Click one end and shift click the other end.)

I made the layer a Smart Object so we can fine tune with multiple edits if need be.

Then applied some Gaussian blur.  If you want the edges more rounded, use thicker white shading, and a stronger blur setting.

Hi @lisbetkr, thanks so much for reaching out!

Could you let us know which version of Photoshop you're using? If you’re able to share a screenshot of the full Photoshop window (including the layers panel), that would really help us get a better idea of what’s going on.

For the sharp corners, you might try slightly rounding your shapes before using perspective warp, or using a mask to clean up any awkward areas.

Let me know if you have any questions, happy to help!

Alek