August 2013 Tips and Tricks: Mapping Text to Wafting Fabric

[wizard509]

Gare, at the time it seemed to work on text, but I didn't see it happening with the bit-mapped image. I had grouped the two lines of text and image, was that wrong? I did that because I had text above the image, the image, then a line of text below the image. I hope that makes sense.

[stygg2003]

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

Gary I apologize for going O/T but look forward to next week to see the better way.

Stygg

[Gare]

This morning's discussion was moving far too much into ImageSkill's displacement plug-in, which is terrific, but doesn't promote a discussion on this month's manual approach.

It was getting O/T, in other words.

You can find Ernie's excellent mini-tutorial, a professional Print Man's approach HERE


My Best,

Gary

[Gare]

Okay, here's a problem I'll leave somewhat open-ended because it has nothing to do with wafting fabric but instead crumpled paper.



Any thoughts/suggestions/inspirations on how text cam be modified so it looks like it's on the bag?

Attached is the Xara file with converted text and a locked image.

-g

[ernie-f]

O.K. here is my quick and dirty result for this challenge and all in vectror – no plugins no bitmap!!!

Wat I've done:

First i set a perspective mould to Garys text-object and made a duplicate.
With the freehand brush I draw around the bags crumples. One for the highlite (ad shape) and one for shadows (ad shape too).


The mould group I convert into editable graphic and slice with the shapes i create with the freehand brush.
The result.


Now I color the objects and give them a stained glass transparency and play arround i think is good.


Finaly i put some nodes and move them to get the displaced/crumpled effect.


Thats it. The ready drawing is attached.

Servus Ernie

[Gare]

You are FAST!

And you did it really well!

Congratulations!

Lat's all talk about tihs, okay? I'd like to see how some of our pros on tg do this!

—Gary

[stygg2003]

Here's my effort, best I could manage, have to think about it a bit more

Stygg

[Gare]

@stygg—

Two things you did right: you innovated and I like your brown text much better than my black text. If you actually printed a solid on brown, you'd get a very dirty colour unless you did two passes, the first with an opaque white "undercoat".

The other thing is that you threw the text slightly out of focus: now, the bag itself is in focus, but I "read" the lack of focus around the edges to be the ink bleeding into the bag. Actually, it's a waxed paper bag, so the ink probably won't bleed, but it did catch my eye!

Try messing around some more if you have time!

-g

[stygg2003]

I should have took note it was a waxed bag and as you say the ink would not have bled but if I remove the focus from the text it looks like it's just stuck on the bag instead of blending with it making it look like one with the bag, if you know what I mean. Thinking head back on again

Stygg

[Gare]

I think I've said it before, here goes again:

When you're engaging in photo-phoolery ad want to deceive the audience, you play "detective" first. What are the clues and hints you can find in the photo to help you accomplish your deception?

Take a look at the lighting on the crumpled bag, stygg (and everyone). It has light and dark areas. So one approach is to divide up the text as Ernie mentioned, and then assign the pieces over the dark areas Stained glass at high opacity, and the lighter areas get more transparency.

No kidding, this takes work. And creep that I am, I'm not going to post my version at all, because my status on tg lets me dictate while goofing off.



-g