Image wrap

[maddia]

I am sure I have seen a tutorial somewhere for this but I cannot find it.

What I am trying to do is have a curved shape, like a can and wrap a rectangular image onto the shape like a can label. All I have achieved is filling the shape, which does not add the wrapping perspective to the image.

[MarkMyWords]

Are you using a bitmap? Unfortunately the envelope won't deform a bitmap in this way (don't know why), so you must start with a vector image before distortion. Try passing it through the bitmap tracer first and then warping it.

[molucca]

You might look at Page Curl 2.2. there is an earlier demo in Extreme. There are examples in their gallery. www.avbros.com

E3 has image warp as well.

Rich

[jclements]

Here is an approach which involves using a another application with Xara.

I applied a bitmap as a texture map to a 3D-can I created in GoogleSketchUp Free. This example was very easy to do.

[MarkMyWords]

That looks great JC how did you do it?

I have sketchupfree, but don't know how to wrap textures that smoothly.

[maddia]

Thank you for the help, especially the example from JC. I will have to give it a go when I get home from work.

[jclements]

Check out the video tutorials here:
http://sketchup.google.com/gsu5vtvideos.html

Then the click on the link for the "Using images as signs" movie. At the end of the movie there is an example of painting stripes onto a barber pole.

MMW, it is smooth because the circle the cylinder was extruded from is comprised of 72 segments.

Regards, John

[MarkMyWords]

Thanks for that John, that's a great help.