Perspective comes in different forms, the most obvious & basic
of which is the use of the word in relation to the appearance of
relative orientation in a three dimensional space. At first, it
may seem irrelevant to photomanipulators, (because, hey, the
photographs already are perspectively sound,) but putting more
than one photograph in context requires that you learn to see
what makes sense and what doesn't. The Technical Stuff
Perspective (from Latin perspicere, to see through) in the
graphic arts, such as drawing, is an approximate representation,
on a flat surface (such as paper), of an image as it is seen by
the eye. The two most characteristic features of perspective are
that objects are drawn: - Smaller as their distance from the
observer increases - Foreshortened: the size of an object's
dimensions along the line of sight are relatively shorter than
dimensions across the line of sight These two are the most basic
things that you can do to make a setting appear three-
dimensional. I purposely say "a set