Photoshop 22.3: Change photo perspective

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I've stitched together a few screenshots using google street view and now I want to change the perspective of the photo.
It's current view is from the street, I want to change the view as though your looking down from a higher level.
Current view as below

The view I want to change to using perspective warp is as below.

Is this possible using perspective warp on photshop, if so, how do I do that. Thanks in advance.

frank · Accepted Answer

The only way to achieve such perspective is to either 1) be at that position, or 2) use photos which were taken from such position. You cannot change the perspective of a scene because the information is simply not available.

Correct answer by frank on August 16, 2021

xenoid · Answer

You can't because the other perspective you want contains information that is not in your picture (for instance, the roof tops) while it would not show things that are visible in your picture, like the inside of the shop on the left, or the windows of the restaurant on the right (I assume you are not trying to transform the Rue Vavin en Avenue de l'Opéra).
Now, in pictures of architecture taken from ground level(*), vertical lines  are converging towards the top, so you can use a perspective transform to stretch the top and shrink the bottom to obtain the opposite feel. This also makes things close to camera (so, at ground level) appear smaller, but you aren't going to fool anyone:

(*) Because the lens axis is pointing up unless you take special precaution to keep the lens axis horizontal (wide angle camera and bottom cropped, or tilt-shift lens)

Photoshop 22.3: Change photo perspective

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