Need Help Transforming Some Blades in Both Directions...

**Bra_Man** · 19 December 2010, 11:42 AM

I'm wanting to do what you see is listed in the picture, make all the fins thinner and also make them smaller from the inside to the outside to make more room for the center.

Thanks for any and all help

**molucca** · 20 December 2010, 03:08 AM

No idea how you would do this in Photoshop. I tried this as a Xara vector brush. It is easy to change the aspect ratio. The brush was applied to a circular path. A brush has several adjustments available. Something that can be done in a few minutes.

Rich

**Albacore** · 20 December 2010, 10:10 AM

It depends on how they were made. Is it a picture that you have got from the web? Is it a Vector shape? and saved as a custom shape as these can easily be edited and changed, delete the one that you don't want. Make new ones and then just duplicate and revolve around defined centre.
If this is something you have got from the web then it would be quicker to start again rather than defining a mask and repeating that mask around and over the existing object. Have a look in your help files for "Custom Shapes" and work from there and reading about vectors in P/Shop.

**handrawn** · 20 December 2010, 10:47 AM

I agree with whats been said..

if the original you have is not a vector shape, be far easier to remake it from scratch in a vector editor - xara designer, illustrator, inkscape, whichever....

**Mike Bailey** · 20 December 2010, 06:19 PM

Apply a gaussian blur of around 2 or 3 pixels to your image, then use levels to adjust the size of the fins.

**handrawn** · 20 December 2010, 06:30 PM

I'll have to try that.....

**handrawn** · 20 December 2010, 07:05 PM

in principle I can see it working - but have difficulty keeping the image sharp - maybe that's because its a low resolution image and maybe I need practice...

**Bra_Man** · 22 December 2010, 06:17 AM

Albacore this is part of my logo so I have it as a vector file in both .eps and .ai file formats. To all though I greatly appreciate all the people that chimed in. I have gotten some other replys in other forums and people seem to be raving about this "Pattern Brush". lol. I'm trying to figure out how to use all of this stuff. To be honest I have never really worked with Illustrator before but have a copy now. I have used Photoshop and have gotten nice with the clone tool and magic wand. So I'm trying to wrap my head all this stuff but I'm a fast learner so its all good. But basically what it seems to boil down is that Illustrator is more about Math. I watched a couple short tutorials and they make it look real easy.

What I don't understand is before I was using Photoshop 6 and now I'm using the new version and there is no magic wand or its diff. Shhh is wack not like the one in version 6. Atleast for me I got nasty with that thing. As for Illustrator I don't know how to single out stuff so I can just have all the blades selected at once and edit them together as a whole.

I went ahead an attached my Logo that I'm trying to change so that everyone can get a better idea of what I'm trying to do and my vision.

**iamtheblues** · 22 December 2010, 07:15 AM

I appreciate that you have posted this in the Photoshop forum, but I think the way to go is to redraw it in a vector program using the blend tool (see attached). It's dead simple.

Saludos,
Bob.

**gnurf** · 22 December 2010, 08:14 AM

Could a custom brush do the trick? Draw one black blade on a white background and then adjust size and distance when "converting" it to a brush. Using vectors would of course be faster (if you know your vector software).