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I have a challenge to create a realistic-looking cable & connector in a print document.
I photographed the connector & cable and polished them up in Photoshop.
After transferring them to Illustrator, I found that it’s not a simple task to bend a raster object. I tried several tools and the warp tool came close, but making a gradual 45 degree bend with little or no distortion doesn’t seem possible.
So I’m looking for ways to bend the raster-object cable without much distortion, make a 10 mm-wide cable segment (a single line drawn using the arc drawing tool) look more realistic, or to somehow import the look of the cable surface from Photoshop and apply that to the line segment.
Or other methods I’ve not yet thought of.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Photoshop CS 8.0 (Mac); Illustrator CS 10 (Mac)
Thanks,
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I photographed the connector & cable and polished them up in Photoshop.
After transferring them to Illustrator, I found that it’s not a simple task to bend a raster object. I tried several tools and the warp tool came close, but making a gradual 45 degree bend with little or no distortion doesn’t seem possible.
So I’m looking for ways to bend the raster-object cable without much distortion, make a 10 mm-wide cable segment (a single line drawn using the arc drawing tool) look more realistic, or to somehow import the look of the cable surface from Photoshop and apply that to the line segment.
Or other methods I’ve not yet thought of.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Photoshop CS 8.0 (Mac); Illustrator CS 10 (Mac)
Thanks,
—
Please, no "Go Google this" replies. I wouldn’t ask a question here if I hadn’t done that already.
DaveC
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Please reply in the news group
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