perspective

Perspective transform. Apply a perspective transform to the layer source image to fill the region specified with the quadrilateral. Other areas of the layer remain transparent.

perspective= *perspQuad*[, *resOptions*]

perspectiveN= *perspQuadN*[, *resOptions*]

perspQuad consists of four pixel coordinate values in the composite (or layer 0) coordinate space, which originates at the top-left corner of the composite image.

perspQuadN consists of four normalized coordinate values, where 0.0,0.0 corresponds to the top left corner of the composite/layer 0 image and 1.0,1.0 to the bottom right corner.

The input image is transformed so that the top-left corner of the input image maps to the first coordinate value of perspQuad[N], the top-right corner to the second coordinate, the bottom-right corner to the third coordinate, and the bottom-left corner to the fourth coordinate.

The perspective quadrilateral coordinates may be located outside the composite image.

Behavior is undefined if the quadrilateral is not suitable for a perspective transform (for example, if two or more vertices coincide, if three or all vertices are on the same line, or if the quadrilateral is self-intersecting or concave).

Quality considerations

While the default implementation produces a reasonable compromise between quality and performance, at times it may be necessary to increase the resolution of the source image to improve sharpness or to reduce it to reduce aliasing artifacts.

If the source is an image, use scale= to choose a different resolution (relative to the full resolution of the image). The specified scale= value is rounded to the next higher PTIF resolution level. In case of a nested request source, the size of the image produced by the nested request can be adjusted to achieve the desired sharpness. For text layers, the resolution of the input image (the rendered text) is adjusted by selecting a larger size= value in conjunction with increasing the resolution specified with textAttr=.

resOptions allows selecting an alternative resampling algorithm. The following values are supported (case-sensitive):

Properties

Layer command. Applies to the current layer or to layer 0 if layer=comp. Ignored by effect layers.

res= is always ignored when perspective is present in the same layer. size= is ignored when specified for image layers. size= and res= in layers with perspective= are reserved for future use.

Default

None, for no perspective transform.

See also

size= , scale=, pos=, textAttr=