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Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Sunday, May 25, 2008 - 8:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Specifically, how to distort something so it curves?

I am trying to make one of those rubbery bracelettes look like it has a certain logo on it. The logo is mostly an image (as opposed to letters/type). I can distort it and skew it, but what I want to do is make it kind of round (so it looks realistic to the way a bracelette would curve. THe distort and skew only seems to work if I were trying to do something with straight lines/angles.

Any tricks, advice??

TIA!!

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Sunday, May 25, 2008 - 8:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
If it were type, I would use the arch feature in the warp text window (If that helps at all...) Any equivalent to that for a nontext item??

Nyheat
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08-09-2006

Sunday, May 25, 2008 - 9:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nyheat a private message Print Post    
try edit > transform > warp. You can click and drag the grid points to create a 3D effect. Good luck!

the screen will look like this:

warp

Nyheat
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08-09-2006

Sunday, May 25, 2008 - 9:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nyheat a private message Print Post    
after messing with the warp grid it can look like this. Good luck!

warp

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Sunday, May 25, 2008 - 9:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
PERFECT!!! Thanks so much NYheat!!

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Sunday, May 25, 2008 - 10:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Uh oh, I must not have a recent enough version of pshop cuz my edit > transform only offers these choices:
scale
rotate
skew
distort
perspective
rotate 180
rotate 90 CW
rotate 90 CCW
flip horizontal
flip vertical

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Any other ideas???

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Sunday, May 25, 2008 - 10:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
I have pshop 7.0

Nyheat
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08-09-2006

Sunday, May 25, 2008 - 10:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nyheat a private message Print Post    
Hmm. Try the filter> distorts, though they may not fit the bill. :-( I tried going in and messing around with some of the filters, but they are not as good as the warp tool.

You can also try the Liquify tool under Filters. Use a large size brush (a large circle) to creage warp effects, but you may have to play with it a while to get the proper effect.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Monday, October 13, 2008 - 10:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
I will try this here, and if nobody sees it, I may start a new thread.

Does anybody here know Adobe Photoshop Elements 6? If you know CS3 you might also be able to answer my question, as I think some things do translate, even though the two softwares are widely divergent in price.

When we were on the Africa cruise, we had a lecturer who loved Elements 6, and when we got home, I upgraded from Elements 3 to Elements 6 for its added features. The lecture was not about Elements per se, but about taking great pictures, and his editor was Elements 6.

One of the things the lecturer demonstrated was doing a tummy tuck. He went to some menu and retrieved some sort of tool that allowed him to go along the boundary of an image and "push" it aside, effectively creating a "tummy tuck" if the edge pushed had made one too many trips to the ship's buffet.

If I took notes, I can't find them. But he did it so easily, I figured it must be easy to figure out. And now I can't figure it out. From dim recollection, I think he went somewhere on the Filter menu, which I thought at the time was an odd place to find such a tool.

Does anybody know what I am talking about? I have a perfectly cute picture of Bigdog to try tummy tucking on.

Landileigh
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07-29-2002

Monday, October 13, 2008 - 11:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landileigh a private message Print Post    
i'm gonna tell bigdog you're doing plastic surgery now!

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 6:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Jooj, try this site - the guy says that he gives classes that includes how to do digital tummy tucks with the program you mentioned. (It's on a list on that page.) Maybe you could email him... or snoop around on his site for more info. :-)

http://www.scottkelby.com/blog/date/2007/12

Check halfway down the page for this section:
Need Your Input On My New Retouching Class Before It “Goes Live.”

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 6:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
A quick fix (that will alter more than just your tummy) is to select a certain portion of your photo (or maybe the whole thing) and scale it in vertically.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 6:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
You would use a tool called Liquify for this in PhotoShop.

Filter, liquify and then select the tool called "push left". Choose a medium sized brush. If you want to tighten the tummy on the right side, start below and stroke up. On the left side start above and stroke down.

By the way, Scott Kelby is an absolute PhotoShop expert. His books are excellent (and pretty funny too if you like his sort of humor).

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 8:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
I wonder if he's the lecturer from Jooj's cruise...?

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 8:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
I have Elements 6 and didn't know you could do this. Wow. I'm going to need step by step instructions on this. Please and thank you.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 11:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Julieboo, thanks but I wouldn't know what scale it in vertically means, so I am sure that is not how he did it.

MameB, thanks for finding Scott Kelby's website. My Googling did not come up with photography websites for tummy tucks. It kept coming up with actual tummy tucks, lol. His website looks very interesting, but I see it is a $200 annual or $20 a month subscription fee. And that would probably be a good deal if I had the time to devote to it, but I don't right now.

Now, Jimmer - the minute I saw the Jimmer advice, I screamed to myself, "That's it!!!" And I raced to open Elements 6 and went to the Filter menu. No Liquify. Poop. But it has to be on there, because that is exactly what the guy did.

I found it!!! It is Filter>Distort>Liquify. And then you do exactly what Jimmer said, just click your mouse at the start point and hold it until you reach wherever you want to end. I took twenty pounds off Bigdog with one click and drag. Let me go make a composite picture to demonstrate if I can get it small enough.

The irony is that Bigdog has lost fifty pounds since that picture, so he now looks like the after picture anyway.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 11:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
This is just perfect. This is exactly what I wanted to do.

Thanks, Jimmer!!

Tummy tuck

Landileigh
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07-29-2002

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 11:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landileigh a private message Print Post    
dang... i'm upgrading my photoshop elements!

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 11:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Oh, for Mocha, when you get to the liquify screen, the tool is called pixel pusher, I think. It is about halfway down the tools. It has a small arrow in the middle and rows of vertical dotted lines on either side of the arrow. If you hover your mouse over it, the description will pop up.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 11:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Hahahahaha, I knew you would be, landileigh. You might remember I got mine on Amazon on sale for $69 with a $20 upgrade rebate. It also has a VERY cool panorama feature, where you take a series of overlapping photos, and the program stitches them together. And it has a feature where if you take two or three similar photos of people, you can swap out their heads if somebody is sneezing in one pic but not another.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 11:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
You're welcome. Wow! He looks great. And it's even nicer that he looks like the after picture now anyway.

Believe me that is a frequently used tool for fashion photographers.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 12:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Heh, I bet it is. I just can't believe the difference in those two photos. One little click and drag!

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 12:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Wow! Ok I'm printing these instructions lol. I'm doing a digital scrapbook for the family.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 12:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Wow Jooj, BD is lookin' hot hot hot! :-)

Landileigh
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07-29-2002

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 2:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landileigh a private message Print Post    
i just checked and they're on photoshop elements 7!

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 3:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Yikes!!

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 5:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Can you use this thing to give people things like boobs if they don't have them, or fix their teeth and double chins and stuff?

If you can, now I will never believe what people look like when TVCH meets are posted!





Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 8:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
While I would like to say some people's flaws are irreparable, here is the power of Photoshop Hukd:

The magic of Photoshop


PS - BigDog is a FLAWLESS man though, IMO. Hunky, even. :-P

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 10:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Landileigh!!! Stop that charge finger from pressing the Order button! I just had a wild notion and opened my Elements 3. It does tummy tucks too!!! And it has the panorama merge, which is found under File>New.

The picture I just now made with Elements 3 looks every bit as good as Elements 6.

Yay!!! You don't need 6. Or 7. Turns out I didn't either, but I thought I did. You just can't do the changing heads thing. Well, you can, just not as easily, apparently.



Mocha
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08-12-2001

Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 4:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Wow that liquify stuff really works.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 7:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Heh. You had me fooled. Great job! It really does work well, doesn't it?

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 8:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
That was the before pic lol. The after pic was for my own personal collection.