August 2013 Tips and Tricks: Mapping Text to Wafting Fabric

[Gare]

The Liquid color filter would be fine if you could preview in its proxy box shapes and photos underneath your targeted text.

Without a live preview of your entire composition, you have to move the proxy box so you can see your composition, and then guesstimate the specific areas that need to be "pushed" up and down. And because the Liquid color proxy box doesn't offer a cursor size, it's still more guesswork.

This is one of the reasons why I wrote the Tips and Tricks tutorial the way I did: to give designers and artists the practice and skills with a manual technique that offers completely predictable results.

-g

[stygg2003]

Here's my effort at mapping Gary, not great but pleased to be able to use such a technique, also one that my granddaughter insisted we put Magnuss (my cat) on Watched the digi-cartoon vid. and it is great as per usual, not able to do it yet as I have not upgraded yet so must get round to it. Thanks for two excellent techniques.

Stygg

[Gare]

You obviously put a lot of effort into it, stygg.

Sorry, but I get encouraged by TPTB to post tutes every once in a while that are based on the current version.



-g

[stygg2003]

No problem Gary I understand that, I will be upgrading shortly, not going to miss out on the digi-cartoon and all the other benefits of upgrading.

Stygg

[Gare]

Call it a hunch, but I believe some of the monies The Xara Group collects for software goes back into TalkGraphics as an advertising expense.



Gotta make it pay off, or we'll wind up emailing each other or something.

My Best,

Gary

[Gare]

Okay, text on dimensional fabric isn't limited in real life to T-shirts.

I covered the Displacement Map plug-in a few months ago, but flags and other planar shapes that show folds can also have text added to them using his month's mini-tutorial:



A blank blanket file is attached!

My Best,

Gary

[wizard509]

Very interesting Gare. I was attempting to do just that but failed at the time. So it is possible to add a graphic using this technique, does this work with any bitmapped image and text? Well it's back to the drawing board for me.

[Gare]

Hi Larry—

All the tutorial images are in the tutorial this month. Not sure what you're asking.

-g

[stygg2003]

Gary as a matter of interest, could I export the textured image in #16 and use it as a displacement map?

Stygg

[Gare]

Gary as a matter of interest, could I export the textured image in #16 and use it as a displacement map?

Stygg

yes, i believe so.

But there's a better way to do this, and this is getting O/T.

How about if I take you through it next week?

-g