Place an image over a perspective rectangle

[ygoe]

Alright, I can't find a way that works right now. And I'd need that done today. So I'm asking here.

I've got a photo of a screen like this:

And then I've got a screenshot with some content. That's a separate .png file in the correct aspect ratio.

Now what do I need to do to place the screenshot on the black screen above so that it looks like the screen is showing my content?

It's a Publisher document but Designer and Photo personas are available. Version 1.7.1 on Windows 10.

I've tried using the Photo grid warp tool but it produces a blurry image right away, without even moving any of the corners. Publisher doesn't seem to do it on its own, the picture frame can't warp the picture, it can only crop it to a perspective form. I haven't found any tool for this in Designer either. And I don't have my old Photoshop available here.

[Alfred]

8 minutes ago, ygoe said:

I've tried using the Photo grid warp tool but it produces a blurry image right away, without even moving any of the corners.

Warping in Photo was my immediate thought. I’m surprised that it produces a blurry image.

My second thought is that you don’t really need perspective warp for this. Looking at the photo of the tablet, I suspect that simply rotating and skewing the screenshot image should be sufficient.

By the way, you might find it easier to place the screenshot under the tablet image and either cut a hole or use the ‘Screen’ blend mode to allow the screenshot to show through.

[ygoe]

I've just tried it, but the bottom and top edge of the tablet are not parallel. So rotating and skewing doesn't work here. I've already supposed that because close-up perspective views often aren't parallel on both ends.

[Alfred]

6 minutes ago, ygoe said:

I've already supposed that because close-up perspective views often aren't parallel on both ends.

That’s a good point, but I’m a little surprised that they aren’t near enough to parallel for it not to matter in this case.

[PixelPest]

You need more pixels I guess:

 

[ygoe]

Oh dear, even when I use the warp tool, it is extremely complicated. This is what it looks like after putting the corners about where they need to be:

The angles are all wrong. And when I drag them to get more or less straight edges, they still distort the content so that the inner edges aren't straight. And when I leave that mode to see the result without the grid lines, it's all persisted. No way to go back and tweak it a little! I could apply another grid warp but not edit the last one. So much for the non-destructive editing. We still have no destructive crop in Photo because destructive operations are undesired. But we have this.

[PixelPest]

Please use the Perspective tool not the Mesh warp tool.

 

Cheers

 

[ygoe]

I see, there's a "hidden" perspective tool. That works a lot better now.

[GarryP]

If you only have Designer or Publisher available you can still get something reasonably decent using rotate and skew with a bit of shape manipulation.

It's not brilliant - and my mock-up below was quick and crude and needs some refinement - but it might do for something simple.

[catlover]

I would suggest using  the "Live Projection" tool.
There is an excellent tutorial available on how to use it.