flag help!

**dw88** · 08 December 2013, 09:55 PM

Hi I'm pretty new to this so please be gentle,

Is it possible to take a flat illustrated flag (ai format) and wrap it into a shape for example I found an image online that someone drew - I really like the way the flags have been 'folded' - Is it possible to draw the basic shape of the flag & then automatically (or even a simple manual method) add a flat flag design to the shape so that it would look 'folded' similar to this guys drawing??

I hope you understand what I mean as I'm not great at explaining things..

Thanks in advance for help.

**pauland** · 08 December 2013, 10:19 PM

Is this in support of the Red Hand NI paramilitaries?

**gwpriester** · 08 December 2013, 10:30 PM

Welcome to TalkGraphics

I might be a lot easier to just recreate the shapes using Illustrator's vector drawing tools. There may be some shaping envelopes you can use to modify a plain rectangle. Someone who is an Illustrator user will know better than I do about this.

**dw88** · 08 December 2013, 10:59 PM

Pauland, that isn't my drawing its something that I picked up in google images to show an example of what im trying to achieve.

Gwpriester, thanks for your reply.. Drawing the flags using tools is what I was hoping to stay away from (if possible) as some flag designs may be a bit more detailed (leading a noob like me to get confused how replicating the folds I aspire to get). Especially since im not artistic enough to draw freehand to trace. Shaping envelopes sounds interesting though, hope someone can point me in the right direction.. Thanks again

**pauland** · 08 December 2013, 11:05 PM

dw88, OK, but unfortunately that's a flag that is of a paramilitary organisation and would be offensive to many people and almost all right-thinking people, so it's quite unsettling to find it being used as an example.

I'd hope it could be changed to an alternative.

As Gary said, it would be better to just draw the shapes - there is no automatic way of folding an image that I know of, the best you can probably do is to mould individual parts into the seperate shapes of the flag.

Welcome to TG and I hope you'll understand my uneasiness regarding your chosen example.